New Pentair Solar Touch

[MrSethTaylor]

Having solar installed today. Current setup is a Pentair VS pump, the solar touch controller, and polaris 280 with pressure side pump. According to the installer the booster pump will no longer be controlled by the rotary timer, and the pump will no longer be controlled by the onboard programming (prgm 1-8).

I'm curious how this will all work, how I can control my regular filtering and cleaning schedules. I like to tweak them a bit to fit in with time of day power usage rates, when we swim, and to save money. I've looked on youtube for videos but don't see much with regard to the scheduling, what controls what. Sounds almost like when the solar is in heat demand mode it goes back to the timer on the pump, but that doesn't explain the booster pump. Anybody have links I can get educated or insight (i don't fully trust the installers will tell me everything I need to know, kinda why were all here doing things ourselves)

TIA

 

[ajw22]

What Pentair VS Pump do you have?

Have you reviewed the SolarTouch Manual which is attached to this post?

See page 20 for how a cleaner pump is wired with a timer and the SolarTouch. You still use a timer to control when the cleaner runs.

The SolarTouch will control when the VS Pump runs and at what speeds. See page 6.

 

[MrSethTaylor]

Intelipro vsf is the pump, it has the communication cable.

I hadn't found the manual you attached, if I'm reading that correctly there still needs the daily dial timer and the relay just kills it while the solar turns on, I still don't see how it gets wired to the timer though. I see the relay contacts for the booster pump but those appear to get power from the main load wires powering the controller, not the power from the cleaning booster timer.

 

[ajw22]

if I'm reading that correctly there still needs the daily dial timer and the relay just kills it while the solar turns on,

Correct.

I still don't see how it gets wired to the timer though. I see the relay contacts for the booster pump but those appear to get power from the main load wires powering the controller, not the power from the cleaning booster timer.

See diagram below. Power to the cleaner pump comes from its own breaker through the timer then through the SolarTouch relay to the Cleaner Pump.

The timer has to be on for the Cleaner Pump to run and then the SolarTouch can turn the Cleaner Pump off at times when the solar valve has opened.

 

[MrSethTaylor]

I didn't see that, thanks