Problem with Poolpilot installation

[Garvacious]

Hi everyone (and hopefully Poolpilot Sean if he is out there):

I have a new Poolpilot that I just installed and am in the process of starting up. After plumbing the cell manifold into my system I notice the thing is leaking in the LAST place I would expect it to leak- around both sides of the cell through the screw-on connections provided with the Poolpilot. No matter how hard I twist these gasketed connectors down the cell still wants to leak. I even bought some silicone pool/spa grease to help seal the o-rings, which helps but not enough. Finally I got the bottom connector to stop leaking but it took Herculean strengh to tighten the connector to that point- aren't these things supposed to seal without a ton of effort? Sean, I need your help!

The check valve in the bottom of the manifold seems to be working, I can see flow thru it so I don't think the cell is getting too much pressure. Also, the manifold is plumbed in in the right direction, and mounted vertically with the flow going up past the sensor and down thru the cell. I really worry about how much this will leak when I hook up my Polaris pressure-side cleaner, that puts lots of extra pressure on the system since it requires the pump pressure to run it around the pool.

Any suggestions, anyone? It's hard to run my pump and filter all day long with water dribbling out thru the Poolpilot connections.

[Garvacious]

Just talked to Sean @ Poolpilot and got some helpful advice. But of course anyone who has any thoughts here is welcome to reply...tonite I will take another look at my system and try to figure out what the issue is.

[semenzato]

In case you're worried about lack of responses, I don't think you're being ignored, but it's possible that most readers are in my same position of not knowing what to say. My Autopilot didn't have any leak. What did Sean say about it? And just to check, what is the pressure in your filter housing?

[Poolsean]

My last correspondence with Garvacious was for him to try repositioning the coordination of the cell body in reference to the pipe. That was the same day he called me and e-mailed this post. My guess is that it fixed the leak or I'm sure he would have responded...or that he's flooded from the manifold leaking (GULP)

[Garvacious]

I actually haven't had time to address it yet (busy at work)- but the leak was down to a slow drip for a few days after I cranked down on the screw-on fittings really hard. Now it seems to have stopped for the most part. I may take a look at it again this weekend.

My filter pressure is normally about 5 lbs, until I put my Polaris in and the pressure required to run the Polaris off the outlet bumps it up to about 15 lbs. Amazingly, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference in the amount of leaking whether or not the cleaner is hooked up.

I think what happened is the silicone lube I used to help stop the leaking got pushed into the leak by the pressure and helped to seal it. I am "salting up" now and bringing it online.