Salt Water Pool Filter Not Working

If the chlorinator was inadvertently installed with these hoses reversed the injection.

Salt water pool filter not working. A salt chlorinator cell not working causes the water to become murky and dirty with time and most sane people wouldn t touch it with a ten foot pole. More often than not the problem is with the salt cell and not the entire chlorinator system itself. A saltwater pool contains 10 times less salt than the ocean. Put simply a salt water pool is a pool that has been chlorinated by means of salt chlorination and not traditional harsh liquid or solid chemical chlorine.

Make sure filter pump is attached and is operating. In this situation something has interrupted the suction or the water flow that causes the system to work properly. If the unit has plunger valves make sure they are open. Electrolytic pool cells are often mistakingly referred to as salt water filters but they in fact don t filter anything they convert the existing salt in your pool water into low levels or chlorine through the process of electrolysis.

Hello susie the pump may not be getting enough water when you connect the pool cleaner. This salt chlorination gives you clean clear and luxuriously soft water. Filter pump is not attached to the system or the switch is not on. You can try opening the main drain line so that the pump can get more water.

Chlorinated water leaves the canister in a hose that connects to the main return line after the filter. Commercial pools may do it a little faster. Under sized swimming pool filters and pumps having too small of a pool filter pump motor will cause the pump to work harder and it won t be able to filter the dirt out of the swimming pool. Switch the diverter valve back to half way between the skimmer and main drain.

If water is not flowing freely in the strainer box return to step one and repeat. Clear dirt and debris from filter cartridge and cell. Normally a residential pool filter pump should turn over the water at the most every 8 10 hours. If the pump is still not primed check the impeller for debris and filter pressure for anything 10psi above the clean reading for your pool filter.

In other words it has lost its prime. The key is to just slightly open the main drain because opening it too far can cause the cleaner to get stuck on the drain. This could mean an obstruction dirty pool filter or too much air getting into the plumbing system. Release all trapped air in the circulation line.

Also keep an eye on the filter gauge. By comparison there s 35 000 ppm in the ocean.