The bearings on my Pentair Superflo 1.5 h.p. pump starting getting noisy, so I ordered new motor bearings. While waiting for parts, the pump failed to start one day, and I could tell it was going into thermal cycling. I immediately cut power to the pump. Lucky me, I took the pump apart, and found that the motor windings had burned.
So now I have to replace the pump motor. Anyone have suggestions on what motor to get? Should I replace it with a variable speed motor to save electricity costs (very expensive electricity here)? I found this replacement variable speed motor, but it has fixed variable speed schedules. I'm not sure it will save all that much money. I run my current pump 3 hours a day.
UPDATE: I found this alternative model that lets you setup custom pump schedules.
Let me know if filtration suffers, other than the total volume, when the pump is run at low speed vs. high speed. I am trying to understand why anyone would use the higher speed at all.
So now I have to replace the pump motor. Anyone have suggestions on what motor to get? Should I replace it with a variable speed motor to save electricity costs (very expensive electricity here)? I found this replacement variable speed motor, but it has fixed variable speed schedules. I'm not sure it will save all that much money. I run my current pump 3 hours a day.
UPDATE: I found this alternative model that lets you setup custom pump schedules.
Let me know if filtration suffers, other than the total volume, when the pump is run at low speed vs. high speed. I am trying to understand why anyone would use the higher speed at all.
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