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browerjs:

--- Quote from: castletonia on February 19, 2020, 05:45:14 pm ---Usually when a salt cartridge fails the display will give you that low salt / inactive reading.  When that happens though, adding salt or anything else doesn't make it work again.  That is why if you are not at or around that 4 month mark you need an additional way to verify the salt, like the salt test strips that came with the system or your dealer.

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So after I got it reading correctly again, 24 hours later it was in the red again.  I hit test and it came back to the green.  A day later it was in the red again.  Hitting test did nothing, Free chlorine was at 0 again.  I dumped some bleach in, and got clean.  Immediately after the clean cycle, I hit test again and I was back to normal.

Not sure what’s going on.

castletonia:
Could be a bad salt cartridge, could be low salt, no one will know until you verify the salt level either with your test strips or have your dealer test the salt.  If the salt is in the ok range, probably a bad salt cartridge which I'm sure your dealer will replace at no cost if it's only 2 months old. 

Jag8:
You may have burned your salt cell out. Based on usage and gallon size you could easily bump your cell level down to 6 or even 5. Length of soak shouldn't dictate use of boost button.

The boost button cranks the cell up to level up to the maximum (level 10) for 24 hours. I suggest most people use this setting the morning or the day of a big event/ get together / lots of kids in the hot tub. Might be hitting that boost button a bit too often. I would suspect that is why your cell needs replacing.

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