Salt Water Pool Filter Not Working

If the unit has plunger valves make sure they are open.

Salt water pool filter not working.

A saltwater pool contains 10 times less salt than the ocean. Switch the diverter valve back to half way between the skimmer and main drain. Chlorinated water leaves the canister in a hose that connects to the main return line after the filter. 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.

This could mean an obstruction dirty pool filter or too much air getting into the plumbing system. A malfunctioning salt water chlorinator is every spa and pool owner s nightmare. There s around 3 000 ppm parts per million salinity in a saltwater pool. By comparison there s 35 000 ppm in the ocean.

You can try opening the main drain line so that the pump can get more water. Release all trapped air in the circulation line. 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. Hello susie the pump may not be getting enough water when you connect the pool cleaner.

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. Normally a residential pool filter pump should turn over the water at the most every 8 10 hours. Filter pump is not attached to the system or the switch is not on. Commercial pools may do it a little faster.

Make sure filter pump is attached and is operating. In other words it has lost its prime. Circulation line is blocked. Clear dirt and debris from filter cartridge and cell.

This salt chlorination gives you clean clear and luxuriously soft water. In this situation something has interrupted the suction or the water flow that causes the system to work properly. 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. More often than not the problem is with the salt cell and not the entire chlorinator system itself.

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