Down the rabbit hole I go once again….
Thoughts on this? What do others do? I'd love to hear from someone that has the same pump/SWG combo...
Yup… I’m that guy running that same setup. I put the Calimar pump in instead of the circupool pump, but it’s generally accepted here as the exact same thing.
many it seems use the aux option on their pumps to drive the salt gen...but i dont think the circupool pump has that. Please correct me if it does and i can't find it in the manual.
Nope. It sure don’t.
Discount salt pool recommended i buy a plug in timer to make sure the salt gen only gets power certain hours per day primarily when the pump is in lower speeds and not when it first turns on. Is this ideal?
My old mechanical timer solely serves as a junction box for my pump and SWG now. I’ll delete it when the plastic cover rots off.
Others have said the salt gen is smart enough to just stay on and plugged in....will it be more wear and tear on it just letting it have power full time? So even when the pump turns off it wont sense flow (i know it has a flow sensor) it just wont activate itself...but i think DSP was trying to say it might save components in the salt gen only being on 12 hours per day versus 24/7.
I wouldn’t call it “smart”. I would call it “packaged”. I don’t know what DSP was trying to tell you. I had a very in depth technical discussion with the GM at Circupool when I was trying to decide between the RJ series and the Core Control, and we discussed this specifically. It’s a PWM style generator. Run it at 50% for 24 hours or 100% for 12 hours. You’re putting the same time on the cell, electrically speaking.
The SWG you're installing has its own Wi-Fi enabled automation. You install the app and set the schedule. When you do your scheduling make sure the SWG is powered off when the pump is off.
Nope. No scheduling involved in the app. It’s pretty simple. If the unit has power and the flow switch is closed, she makes the chlorine. End of story.
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Here’s what you’re gonna do (I’m speaking from my [very low] throne now):
A) Wire the core control into power. I chose to wire it to my pump circuit, so that it would fail if the pump circuit breaker blew, but that’s personal preference. This thing draws minimal power. Run it on 110V or 240V. It doesn’t care.
B) Program the schedule on your new VS pump to run 24/7, and then run the pump in schedule mode. You have to do this. From the factory, it comes set to run 18 hours/day. I run 3 speeds - Hi (4 hrs IFCS) / Med-Lo (10 hrs 1500rpm Skim) / Lo (10 hrs 1100rpm SWG).
C) Start the SWG at 50%. Given your pool size and latitude, I suspect you’ll end up 40-50%.
By scheduling the pump to run 24/7, you’re always flushing any gas buildup away by default. That’s primary safety #1 here. If the pump goes bust for some reason, then the flow switch kicks in as safety #2. When you backwash, stop the pool pump with the VS controller instead of just killing the power to the circuit so that the controller stays powered up and you can check that the red “low flow” alarm come on and verify its still working.
It’s that simple.
