Good news! The pool pump is working! Bad news though, I have absolutely no idea why.
I hadn’t done anything to it since my experimenting to figure it out the problem, and those had all failed. When there was a nice big gap in the rain I decided to go out and try disconnecting so I bring into the house to take apart. I automatically tried turning it on one last time, like I always do when something doesn’t work and I’m about to start drastic exploration….
And it turned on! It’s running absolutely fine!
Okayyyyy. So if I don’t know why it stopped, I have no idea if it will stop working again. Maybe it will fail five minutes from now, and maybe it won’t fail the rest the summer. I have NO idea.
Ah well, I’ll tell you what I am going to do. With all this rain in the forecast making working on it too hard, I’m going to leave it running until I absolutely have to clean the leaf trap or filter. Or until there is a nice long gap of dry weather in case I do need to do repairs. And I am totally putting the chlorine in tonight as long as the pump is still running.
Last night I had a nightmare that the pool was turning green as I watched and millions of stinging waterbugs were swimming in an expanding spiral like a school of fish. I’d tried to contain them in a nest but they were multiplying so fast they were too heavy to haul out and they were squeezing out all the swimming space around the edges. I was being stung every time I bumped the net and I was in danger of drowning as they crowded out the gap around the sides before I could get to the ladder.
Obviously the pool pump problem was worrying me! I’m cautiously relieved that, for now, I won’t have my pool becoming a nature reserve (like it is half the year! LOL)
