INTEX C1500 Krystal Clear Cartridge Filter Pump for Above Ground Pools: 1500 GPH Pump Flow Rate – Improved Circulation and Filtration – Easy Installation – Improved Water Clarity – Easy-to-Clean

Learn from my mistakes, don't waste all your time & money this summer. Here is how I cleared my brown iron infested pool up in just 3 days! We decided to attempt to set up a pool again this year & I forgot how tedious the whole process is, but this filter ended up being a savior! I decided to start small and ordered the 8ft intex pool from Target (99$) & although it claimed it came with a filter pump it didn't. I figured it was a small pool so I could get away with a small pump so I ordered an off brand 330 pump ($79). We have a septic water system so our water is full of iron thusly when we filled the pool it was super cloudy and murky. I hooked up the small filter and ran it for 10 days straight, cleaning out the cartridge daily and adding chemicals constantly...the water was slightly better but still very cloudy and brown (see 1st picture) and the iron particles that would settle on the bottom were too fine to vaccum up. After doing some research & reading a ton of reviews I decided to buy this filter. I knew from the reviews I needed to buy the adapters since I have a smaller pool, I got them for $16 here on Amazon. I read the gasket is not necessary & since it was a $60+ part I decided to hold off on that. While it works great without it it enables you to turn the water flow off for pump maintenance so it is helpful, I think eventually I will be getting one. The adapters are 100% necessary as the fittings are larger than the pool. So the filter & adapters came in just 2 days. It was super easy to install, took me like 30 minutes to do myself. If you're like me and super new to pools intex has some videos on YouTube that help a lot! I will admit the dual suction threw me off since the smaller filter only had 1 intake 1 output. Initially I installed it backwards & had 2 output hoses and 1 intake hose. The next day I realized my mistake and switched the hoses to 2 intake and 1 output. But, it still worked well that first night, that's how amazing this filter is. Being that my pool is so small this filter is super powerful!! The suction power is amazing & the output comes out like a hot tub. That old small pump didn't even move the water around, this one actually circulates it. If you're like me and have hard water or iron issues Google "pool sock method". I filled socks with pillow stuffing and zip tied them to the output hose than rinsed them clean a few times a day. The helped to collect those tiny stubborn iron particles. After the 1st night of running this filter the water was 80% clear (see 2nd picture). I was pleasantly surprised!! I continued using the pool socks and shocked the water the next day & it was 90% clear (see 3rd picture). After a few days of maintenance, chemicals and the occasional vaccum (I have one of those cheap pool vacs that hook up to a garden hose), I went outside to find the water 100% crystal clear!!!!! Literally all the iron particles GONE!!! Since it was super hot here last week the water feels amazing!! I feel like I finally conquered my greatest challenge yet...the brown pool water, and I owe it all to this filter!!! Yes it was a little more than I initially wanted to spend for a little pool, but it was SO worth it! I wish someone would have told me that before I wasted money on a subpar filter & weeks of having a brown pool no one could swim in!! Now that I have this amazing filter and know it works so well I plan on upgrading to the 12ft poolnext year... I just have to level out the ground better... (if you haven't put your pool up yet, LEVEL THE GROUND 1ST it really matters). But for now we are LOVING our little pool paradise. So if you have a small pump the upgrade is 1000% WORTH IT!

Bought this for small above-ground pool this summer. It was very easy to install and get hooked up with pool hoses. The filters do a great job, and the pump and filter do a great job at keeping my pool clear and sanitary. It is very simple to remove filter for cleaning/changing. It is a bit noisy, but it is on a screened patio. So I'm pretty sure it echos. That being said, when I went out to end of property line next to neighbor, I could not hear anything. I built a sound proof box for it anyway. I like the timer feature. It has a 1 hour, then 2, 4 6, 8 12 hour. Whatever time you initially turn it on and set the hours for, it will run for that then come on again and run for those set hours at the time you initially turn it on. I like that it gives you options. And timer very inconvenient so you don't have to turn it on every night/day once you select what you want. It's very sturdy and does not take up much space. So far, so good.

1+ years in this thing works awesome! But for best results buy a skimmer. With the build in 2 outlet holes it does not take advantage of the full power of the pump. But with a single skimmer it does. You can see and feel the difference in the outlet with a skimmer and your pool gets cleaner faster and stays cleaner way longer. You do not have to vacuum nearly as often maybe once every 2-3 weeks depending on your weather in your location like wind. Now if they made a non sand 3500 gph pump I would probably upgrade again, but this so does the job.

I have a Summer Waves 10' x 30" pool. It came with a 600 GPH pump and tiny filter. It seemed we were changing the filter out every 2 days or so otherwise we would have almost non-existent flow. It would also lose prime after a few hours. Customer support told us the pump wasn't designed to run more than 3 hours and was only to circulate chemicals. I bought this pump to replace that one I wanted more water turn over. The 600 GPH wasn't filtering hardly anything. Within a day of installing this 1500 GPH pump, the water clarity was 100% improved. It also gave alot of water turn over enough so much that it actually circulated the water around the pool. I can watch the thermometer float in circles from the living room window. I did have to rig this pump to make it work on the pool as it wasn't designed for it. The outlet aerator was much bigger than what the pool had so we did have to trim the pool to get the outlet to fit. We pushed the outlet into the hole and just trimmed slowly around it until we got most of the excess off the threads. The pump did not come with the inlet strainer and we couldn't make the existing one work with the adapter. I bought the 1.25" adapters but the pool had 1". I tried a compression fitting from Home Depot but it collapses the openings and leaks. I bought a Summer Waves suction fitting for 1.5" systems (RP & RX) here on Amazon (Search: B072L65B4Q). That fit directly into the inlet hole without trimming, which seems dumb on Summer Waves part. Why not have same size holes on both? I was able to take the hose that came from the Intex pump and actually thread it onto the inlet strainer. I tightened it up as far as I could then put a hose clamp on it just in case. There is SOME leakage from the area but very small. It looks like sweat running down the pool, maybe a drop every 5 seconds. Overall I'm impressed. The filter lasted a little over a week. It was still working but the bubbles stopped. We didn't know why but when I replaced the filter the bubbles came back and you could immediately see a flow improvement. Being a smaller pool and this pump being overkill, I could have left it alone and let it have diminished flow and probably would have worked fine.

Purchased for our “cowboy pool”. Easy to install. Works great. I set the timer for daily clean. Parts, filters… available via Amazon.

I purchased a 12x30 Intex pool with a pump system a while back, and also purchased the wall mount surface skimmer. After connecting the skimmer, it didn’t work. There was no suction into the skimmer (or at least not enough for it to do its job). I tried closing off the second hose intake And even switching the connection to the other intake, but it still didn’t work. After watching several YouTube videos to try to figure out what I was doing wrong, one guy finally said the thing I needed to hear - the pool pump wasn’t strong enough for the skimmer. I then purchased this pool pump, which is what he recommended. FYI, and this is important - if you purchase this pump for a pool that is SMALLER than what it’s meant for (like my 12x30), you WILL ALSO NEED TO PURCHASE the 1.25” to 1.5” Type B hose adapter 2-pack. Once you have those, you’re golden. And you WON’T be using the rotatable jet that comes with this pump for a smaller pool because it’s too big - you’ll just keep the regular one connected. I still had to plug/close my second hose intake to the pump in order to get the skimmer to suck hard enough to be effective, but now it all works like a charm! Of course, if you’re not using a skimmer, there’s no need to upgrade your pump size.

i hooked this pump up to a 12 foot pool and turned over water in a fraction of the time as the cheapo pump that came with the pool packaged deal. still uses A type filters (easy and cheap to get) and set the timer for minimum (2 hours) and it got the job done. pump is rated for larger pools but such a tremendous step up from those small, wanna be pumps that come with the package deal. save yourself some hassle, extra labor and money and buy a good pump ahead of time and save the play pump for a back up (hopefully never needed). pump is fairly quiet when running, timer actually works, and i've been operating daily since purchase with no problems. i still have to figure out my ROI (electricity use + filters) but the outcome of the pool being W-A-Y cleaner - no comparison!!...that alone makes it worth it to me. 10/1/11 - time to put pool away for the year and happy to report good ROI as the efficiency saved me approx. $9/month. i could figure this out because i have one of the new digital electric meters and i get a monthly usage report which shows daily electricity use hour by hour and since i have the timer set, which will always stay the same unless you unplug the pump or change the timer, it was easy to compare the usage. also, the A type filters purchased in a 6 pack from Amazon are durable enough to wash out and soak in a mild bleach solution and sun dry so that they can be used at least twice and sometimes 3 times, so if i had purchased earlier in the season, it would have paid itself off in one season, but as it were, will pay itself off definitely next year, and again, pool stays way cleaner, less sediment to vacuum and i found that i needed to use l/ss chlorine, so really, if i were to factor that cost in, maybe it really did pay for itself in one season. anyway, i really like the pump and would have no problem recommending it to others. 4/29/12 Back up and running without a hitch! Sure cleans the pool nicely. Still Lov'n It!! 10/29/12 Time to put away again and still STRONG as ever and will hook'er up again next season ~ Word ~ the stinking hoses are what wear out first! Huh? Send me your fixes please...thanks, marc

For years I've had smaller intex easy set pools with low capacity pumps. They barely did the job. So this year when I upgraded to a larger metal frame intex pool I knew I wanted a stronger pump and the c1500 was only marginally more expensive than the 350 and 500 gph pumps I previously had. However, I didn't realize when ordering that the valve size would be different and the that the connectors on the new pump were threaded instead of clamped like on the smaller pumps. So it took a few days for me to sort that out and figure out what other pieces I would need to order. The anxiety I mention above comes from the fact that in order to change the valves in my pool to a larger size that would accommodate the c1500, I would have to cut holes in the new pool liner! Thankfully there are lots of videos showing you how to do it and in actuality, it was simple and fast. With the holes cut, and with the additional plunger valves I purchased (for about $30 on Amazon, not intex brand)I was able to convert the original valves from 1/14 to 1/12, and from clamped to threaded connectors. All of this to say when I finally fired up the C1500 the amount of water pumping through the system was awesome. So much stronger than the smaller pumps I've used in the past. I will say this too, there are valve adjustment packages that allow you to avoid cutting holes in your pool, but honestly that would defeat the purpose of the larger pump b/c you would be constricting water flow. So in the end, if you buy this pump know that you'll need additional plunger valves to be able to connect the pump, and you'll need to cut holes in your pool if they have the smaller valves. But while this may seem daunting, and I was honestly completely unprepared, in the end it was simple and the pump is night and day better for keeping things clean. Really happy with it.