Hi all - pool co pulled the cover Friday and added chems and fired up the equipment. Within 10 minutes the pump switched off and they told me the breaker in our panel had gone bad so I needed to replace. I went out and fiddled with it after they left and ended up unplugging the intellichlor and the pump would start up then without tripping the breaker. Good because I had a boatload of shock and algaecide in there to clear it up from the winter and needed it to run.
Pump ran fine for at least a few hours but when I checked it in the morning, the breaker (running just the pump now), had flipped again. I tried again and the pump has been running uninterrupted 36 hrs now. Pump and intellichlor run on the same breaker, it's like two covered by the same switch, but I was able to unplug the intellichlor from its box).
So, my choices are:
Bad breaker (call electrician)
Bad something or other in the pump (call pool co?)
Bad intellichlor (but I don't think so now since the pump running solo ended up tripping it, too)
Thoughts?
Pump ran fine for at least a few hours but when I checked it in the morning, the breaker (running just the pump now), had flipped again. I tried again and the pump has been running uninterrupted 36 hrs now. Pump and intellichlor run on the same breaker, it's like two covered by the same switch, but I was able to unplug the intellichlor from its box).
So, my choices are:
Bad breaker (call electrician)
Bad something or other in the pump (call pool co?)
Bad intellichlor (but I don't think so now since the pump running solo ended up tripping it, too)
Thoughts?