Thanks everyone for all the positive comments as it definitely gives me something to focus on when you find yourself with a day that's filled with more downs than ups.
Not a huge update today, but I have a few things that might be of interest.
I had some electrical conflicts to take care of before I could move forward so I spent a good deal of Wednesday night moving one of my outlets. It probably would have been a whole lot easier to accomplish this if I had done it during the day when the hardware stores were still open, but I somehow managed to remember that it needed to be done after closing time. It was very a very Apollo 17 type of moment. Anyone remember the scene where the guy dumps out the box of parts on the table and tells everyone that this is what they need to do and these are the parts that they have to do it with? Because let's be honest here, everyone knows you're not really having fun until you're heat molding electrical conduit over the kitchen stove at 2am while the rest of the family is sound asleep in bed. Regardless, it needed to be done because a small miscalculation in the placement of one of my outlets prevented me from being able to open the waterproof cover to reset the GFCI once the skimmer was installed. So move it I did.
I called Catalina Water Co on Wednesday to book an appointment and got lucky when they said they could swing by the next day. I'm not sure what I'm doing right to have such great luck with delivery dates but I'm certainly not complaining.
They called a little after 8:00 am were here barely an hour later. It was totally awesome to have a tank filled in less than 15 minutes. Just don't ask me how much water it took as they were gauging it off the marks on the poly holding tank on the truck. It was definitely a low tech approach. Speaking to customer service I discovered they really don't count the gals as they aren't so much charging for the water as they are the overhead. 25 gallons either way doesn't seem to be a big deal. The driver even filled 5 of my jugs so I had some extra on hand to play with my water level.
Now for the bad news... this stuff was beyond cold. Not sure how cold is cold, but it's was definitely low 60 to high 50's when it came in. My 2 150w heaters have been running for the last 24 hours and I'm just now closing in on my ambient room temp of 74 degrees.
Beyond that, I dumped in a gallon or so of water from the old tank and another gallon today to get the party started. I plan to add a gallon or so a day over the next few weeks as that worked out really well when I was setting up the EcoWheel.
Skimmer is chugging along nicely. It's actually making a bit of foam - very light colored, but it making enough head that I've ben able to play around with the settings so I have an idea of where I need to be.
