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Horizons
06-19-2006, 03:16 PM
I just bought a house with an in-ground salt pool so I am new to this. Everything works great but everytime I turn on the jacuzzi booster pump, within 5-10 minutes my skimmer starts to dump lots of white cloudy stuff into the pool. This ruins the water clarity and I have to run the filter for a few hours to clear this up. I just had my filter completely serviced. Just had the water tested and everything is perfect.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance,

-Greg
matt4x4
06-19-2006, 04:22 PM
sounds like DE coming out, do you have a DE filter?
Rangeball
06-19-2006, 04:40 PM
I just bought a house with an in-ground salt pool so I am new to this. Everything works great but everytime I turn on the jacuzzi booster pump, within 5-10 minutes my skimmer starts to dump lots of white cloudy stuff into the pool. This ruins the water clarity and I have to run the filter for a few hours to clear this up. I just had my filter completely serviced. Just had the water tested and everything is perfect.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance,

-Greg


Does it have a multi-port valve? You shouldn't be getting any flow back from your filter to your skimmer, flow should only be from skimmer to filter.

Perhaps your valve is going bad, but I'm having a hard time imagining this scenario. Is it coming from your skimmer, or return?
Horizons
06-19-2006, 05:05 PM
Does it have a multi-port valve? You shouldn't be getting any flow back from your filter to your skimmer, flow should only be from skimmer to filter.

Perhaps your valve is going bad, but I'm having a hard time imagining this scenario. Is it coming from your skimmer, or return?

I THINK the filter is a DE type but I need to check this. The white cloudy stuff is coming out of the skimmer and not the return, no question about that.
Horizons
06-19-2006, 05:09 PM
I just thought of something else that may be a factor. Using the jacuzzi booster jets for more than 15 minutes causes the entire water contents in the jacuzzi to empty. I'm assuming that all this water is going through the filter and into the pool via the return. I then have to turn off the jacuzzi jets and turn on the filter to bring water back into the jacuzzi. Could this be related to my skimmer dumping white cloudy stuff into my pool?

Thanks for your help on this.