Variable speed pump and pool timer

[Sk8Surfr]

First post... I installed a Hayward Salt System today. The intermatic pool timer was beat and part of it snapped while I was pulling the wires. It's a 220 volt.

I have been thinking of getting a variable speed pump. My little 1hp for my 13,000 gallon pool has a hard time moving the vacuum while the skimmer is on.

Anyways, before I spend $60 on a new pool timer - do the hayward variable timers get wired with constant power? Or do I still run/power it from the pool timer?

Thanks in advance!

 

[pooldv]

Variable speed pumps have built in timers and should be wired directly to a circuit breaker.

 

[Sk8Surfr]

So then do you wire the salt system control box to the pump? Or breaker as well?

 

[pooldv]

No, my SWG is wired to its own timer and I set it to run inside the run window for the pump.

 

[Sk8Surfr]

So how do you get them to kick on at the same time? I mean I'm guessing they're "close enough"?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't want constant power to the sale system right?

 

[pooldv]

That is correct, the SWG should not be powered up when the pump is not running, they can explode from gas build up.

I check the times from time to time to make sure they are synced up. Then I always set the SWG to come on 20 or 30 minutes after the pump starts and the SWG always turns off well before the pump shuts off because I run my pump a lot more than my SWG. Pump is running sun up to sunset right now for solar heat. SWG runs 7 or 8 hours.