Hello all, I need your ideas....
DH came home late last night (after huge storms and tons of rain) to find pool pump not running. I am stuck in NYC until Monday. He has no working computer with him, so I am writing this....
We know from online monitoring that the pump was happily running along on Friday.
It is a one year old (renovation completed May 2010) Jandy Stealth 2HP single speed pump/motor controlled by Pool Pilot. Breaker in box on pool pad is tripped. Reset breaker, DH hears a split-second of tiny noise from pump, then the breaker trips. If he resets breaker and turns on pump, the breaker trips right away--doesn't even get that tiny noise any more. Other items fed by breaker panel are fine, but pump is only two-pole load, I think. I should ask DH if heat pump is fed by this box or by the house heat pump supply.....
There is nothing at all clogging the system. Heck, the loop-loc has been on the spotlessly clean pool for months; skimmers clean, pump strainer basket very clean, nothing visible in the impeller window.
Our builder's pool service guy hasn't returned our calls--he must be at the beach for the long weekend.
What are the things that can be wrong? We came up with one idea: possible problem with big capacitor on pump motor, maybe. What else could it be? Any suggestions as to what to try that we can investigate on our own would be very much appreciated.
Thank you~~
Lana
DH came home late last night (after huge storms and tons of rain) to find pool pump not running. I am stuck in NYC until Monday. He has no working computer with him, so I am writing this....
We know from online monitoring that the pump was happily running along on Friday.
It is a one year old (renovation completed May 2010) Jandy Stealth 2HP single speed pump/motor controlled by Pool Pilot. Breaker in box on pool pad is tripped. Reset breaker, DH hears a split-second of tiny noise from pump, then the breaker trips. If he resets breaker and turns on pump, the breaker trips right away--doesn't even get that tiny noise any more. Other items fed by breaker panel are fine, but pump is only two-pole load, I think. I should ask DH if heat pump is fed by this box or by the house heat pump supply.....
There is nothing at all clogging the system. Heck, the loop-loc has been on the spotlessly clean pool for months; skimmers clean, pump strainer basket very clean, nothing visible in the impeller window.
Our builder's pool service guy hasn't returned our calls--he must be at the beach for the long weekend.
What are the things that can be wrong? We came up with one idea: possible problem with big capacitor on pump motor, maybe. What else could it be? Any suggestions as to what to try that we can investigate on our own would be very much appreciated.
Thank you~~
Lana