Swimming pool valves introduction. Basic overview including spa and automatic cleaner 

Thanks for the kind feedback! I had a lot to learn, still do.

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This is the only part of training I’m struggling with. But I’m starting to pick it up.

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Yes, I leave the spa drain closed. This forces water to flow across the top of the spa, and out of the small waterfall spout into the pool. The purpose of this is so floating debris can get pulled into the pool skimmer. I hope that was clear, it would make more sense if you saw a picture. thanks for watching!

It’s safest to turn the valves with the pump off, but with experience you can turn some valves with the pump running. The most important piece is to understand the flow. The risk is you could break vacuum and pull air into the system or cut off water flow completely. Either of those will over stress the pump. Whenever turning a valve with the pump running, I do it very slowly and keep an eye on flow and an ear on the pump RPM. Thanks for watching!

Hello. I have a pool vacuum and the spa, so your setup may be different. Think of the water flow as a circuit or circular motion. I have all my bottom drains turned off. This way the water moves across the top of the spa, across the top of the pool, pushing all the floating debris to the simmer basket, and eventually into the filter, and back to the pool. The only exception is that some of the flow also goes to the pool vacuum, which cleans the bottom of the pool. Hope this helps!

There were remnants of some labels that helped me to narrow things down. You can briefly try to reduce or close one valve at a time once you have an educated guess, to help identify. Just be mindful of flow so that you don’t completely cut off suction. Best of luck!

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If you have an automatic pool cleaning vacuum, check to be sure it's not clogged. Disconnect the vacuum hose somewhere close to the pool wall and see if there is suction. Also, mine works like a very simple clockwork type of mechanism with gears and a paddle inside. Sometimes a stick or something can get in there and it won't move around. Best of luck, I'm interested to know if you solved it!

is you spa level with pool ? how fare are your pumps from spa and pool?

Thanks for watching. “Normal” mode for me is really “clean” mode where the vacuum is running around the pool many hours every day. We swim with that setup as well, but I suppose a version of normal would be with the vacuum out. At that point you could open the floor drains and use skimmer & floor drains for circulation and decide if you want the spa in the loop or not. Hope that helps!

I checked the documentation. The heater has two thermostats so you can leave the dials set at different desired temperatures. It’s for convenience, since you commonly would set the spa temp higher than pool temp. Hope that is helpful.

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do you have automated valves

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Very fair feedback, I’ll be more careful. Thanks for watching.