Auburn02
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Nice timing on this thread, and ironic that 1400 RPM seems to be the magic number for my breaker tripping randomness as well. Never had much problem with it for the 6 months since my pool was built until I had to do a SLAM a couple weeks ago and was running the pump 24/7, so I turned it down to 1200 or so. Not only did the breaker trip, it failed completely such that I could not reset it. Pool builder had it replaced for me (again, only 6 months since install), then after the SLAM I reset my schedule with the pump running longer throughout the day to keep the SWCG running more, so didn't increase the RPM too much. I think I set it at 1300 or 1350. It's tripped twice on random occasions since doing that over the past week. I guess I'll be turning it back to 1400 to see if it will stay up reliably until I can get the replacement (Siemens) breaker. I believe my original and replacement breakers are/were from Eaton.
The breaker is only about $90 at Lowes and Home Depot if you can find it, when I looked last week Home Depot was allowing online orders but it's back to out of stock now. I have email alerts set up with both to notify me when it's available again.That should be it with varying degrees of supply issues / gouging. A few weeks ago I pulled it up for my electrician while getting a quote for my build and it was $230 on Amazon that day. I imagine it’s more at HD / electrical supply shop.
Pre-pandemic it was $110 for the Siemens and $160 for the ‘Pentair’ one.
Where did you end up ordering and what did you pay if you don't mind me asking?Ok found the breaker and ordered it.