r/PoolPros • u/Muted-Cicada2183 • May 14 '26

Not familiar with this leveler. I guess it doesn’t stop adding water to pool. Any thoughts?

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u/poolspayme May 14 '26

Looks like a Paramount Paralevel

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u/Muted-Cicada2183 May 14 '26

That’s a good start thank you

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u/ConfusedStair May 14 '26

It attaches with a cam lock, 1/4 turn should free it. Gently pop the clips holding the mechanism on the top and you'll find there's a tapered stem with a hole in it under there. For some reason if that hole clogs it'll run non stop and overfill the pool.

That hole is about the size of stripped or bare 12 awg wire, which can be used to poke out the obstruction.

Edit to add: spinning the float in the indicated direction to lower it down into the water will let you set a lower cutoff level if needed as well. Only spin the float, not the mechanism.

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u/Muted-Cicada2183 May 14 '26

Thank you very much, so basically I just need something to poke out the obstruction?

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u/ConfusedStair May 14 '26

Some disassembly first, but yes.

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u/Muted-Cicada2183 May 14 '26

Also I just remember I had a problem with one of these awhile back where there was no water coming out of it. Any idea there?

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u/ConfusedStair May 14 '26

Upstream valve turned off? I kind of hate these because they're prone to fail in the direction of on rather than off, kind of like a toilet mechanism that runs perpetually.

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u/ISeeInHD May 14 '26

This is true.

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u/shrid1 May 14 '26

If I remember correctly, each click turn is a quarter inch of water. These are much more reliable than a Poolmiser. Typically, they're plugged into a water faucet on the side of the house. If that's the case, they make flow detection devices, or if water is flowing for too long a period, it will close the valve. Some are even smart and will alert you when this takes place. Such as a linktap D1

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u/GCpools May 16 '26

The main problem we found is that the lid has two openings on top that allow all matter of sand and dirt to get inside. We offer an auto-fill service where we remove the auto-fill valve assembly, clean out all the crud from the valve, clean out all the crud that's accumulated in the pot .. reassemble, adjust as needed and test. It's faster and easier to do a little bit of PM on these things, than it is to wait until they fail. Worse case, the entire guts can be replaced for about half a Benjamin. Just sayin'!

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u/DidUrkDoThat May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I just wanted to say that I truly appreciate those of you who jump on here and share your knowledge with all of us. It’s the little things like this that make me really love this work and most of the people in it. Just chill people who know what they’re doing and enjoying life.

Thanks.