I have a fairly new in ground pool/spa combo. Out of the blue, when I put it in spa mode, the jets produce water but no bubbles or good water rippling like normal. They act like the regular pool jets. When I turn on the blower, the bubbles blow although not as crazy as normal. I noticed on the Jandy filter gauge, when in pool mode the psi is at or below the “clean” level but when I put it in spa mode it goes up to near “dirty” level. What is causing this?
Ask the Pool Guy Changed status to publish March 16, 2020
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| I have a fairly new in-ground pool spa | |||
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| combo out of the blue when I put it in | |||
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| spa mode the Jets produce water but no | |||
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| bubbles or good water rippling like | |||
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| normal | |||
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| they act like regular pool jets when | |||
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| they turn on the blower the blower will | |||
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| blow bubbles although not as crazy as | |||
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| normal I noticed on the Jandy filter | |||
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| gauge when the pool went in pull mode | |||
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| the PSI is at or below the clean level | |||
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| but when I put it in spa mode it goes up | |||
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| to near dirty level what is causing this | |||
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| so the obvious answer is when you’re in | |||
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| pool mode the pressure on the lines is | |||
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| much less because probably there’s less | |||
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| restriction in the line maybe how the | |||
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| spa was built as soon as the pump kicks | |||
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| out or goes into spa mode there’s back | |||
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| pressure because however the spas | |||
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| plumbed it’s putting pressure the pump | |||
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| is having to work harder to push water | |||
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| through those lines so it could simply | |||
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| be how it was plumbed is always a | |||
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| possibility that maybe there’s a | |||
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| blockage in the spa line although that | |||
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| doesn’t make a whole lot of sense | |||
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| because there’s really no way of getting | |||
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| anything in there to block that line on | |||
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| the pressure side on the suction side | |||
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| potentially but not on the pressure side | |||
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| so likely the pressure goes up because | |||
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| of the way that it’s plumbed it just has | |||
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| that much more back pressure | |||
Ask the Pool Guy Changed status to publish March 16, 2020