Quote Originally Posted by Ozzzz
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I also received my replacement cell yesterday. Just in time too because my cell totally went out, instead of flashing low salt/inspect cell the lights were full on, and not generating any chlorine (CL was fine on Sunday, all gone on Tuesday). I added some bleach on Tuesday night to tide me over till the cell arrived.

Installed the new cell last night and it almost immediately tripped out on Hi salt error, and wasnt generating CL so I dumped about 8" of water out and then topped it up over night. This morning the cell was reading about 4100ppm, and I too noticed that the top of the control unit was pretty warm after about 30min of use, I dont remember it being hot at all before the new cell. From memory the amps were reading up in the 7 range, not sure if this is the source of the heat. The manual also says that the enclosure acts as a heat sink, so I guess the heat is to be expected. Maybe no heat means its not working.

One would wondering if very high internal resistances in the old cell caused the power draw to plummet, thus making it cooler before the new cell...