Valve Actuator failed motor

[philbone]

Hi all,

A quick question... I have a Jandy 24V actuator with a failed motor. It has seized and in spite of a thorough cleaning and saturation with a tri-flon penetrating lube, will only work intermittently. It sounds like a grinding wheel! ...it is definitely gone.

Everything else is sound - gears, electrical etc. I do not find much posts on just replacing the motor.

It is a basic AC motor, I believe a Hurst SP unit.

Anyone have luck sourcing these? Hurst do have a website but they seem to cater only as a vendor to the trade.

I would rather replace what is broken than to re-pull wiring and simply swap units.

Thanks for any ideas!

Phil

 

[ajw22]

Welcome to TFP.

This motor has been used in the Pentair IntelliValve. I don't know if it will work in a Jandy JVA...

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Intellivalve Autopsy

When I opened up my pool this spring I learned that my heater bypass actuator wasn't working. I seemed to have fallen victim to the blinking Auto light like so many more on this site: https://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/is-my-pentair-intellivalve-actuator-broken.255485/...

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[1poolman1]

Hi all,

A quick question... I have a Jandy 24V actuator with a failed motor. It has seized and in spite of a thorough cleaning and saturation with a tri-flon penetrating lube, will only work intermittently. It sounds like a grinding wheel! ...it is definitely gone.

Everything else is sound - gears, electrical etc. I do not find much posts on just replacing the motor.

It is a basic AC motor, I believe a Hurst SP unit.

Anyone have luck sourcing these? Hurst do have a website but they seem to cater only as a vendor to the trade.

I would rather replace what is broken than to re-pull wiring and simply swap units.

Thanks for any ideas!

Phil

The motor is listed below. You're far better off getting a new actuator, and it doesn't have to be Jandy brand, except for the "intelligent" ones they are all the same. Jandy has priced the motor so that it makes more economic sense to do it that way, if someone will sell one to you.

R0408500​

 

[philbone]

Thanks for this. Unfortunately this motor in the link will not work.

I received a reply from Hurst's engineer in which they said...

"Please inform the customer that because the SP motor is proprietary for the customer (Jandy) who assembled the entire unit, we cannot assist in a possible secondary option."

So, the units have been discontinued and there does not seem to be any equivalent. Maybe a Chinese company will step up and offer a motor. There are after all thousands of these units out there.

There is nothing of rocket ship technology in an actuator... a reversible motor and a couple of microswitches, so I think I will buy a Tork unit and keep my old units for spare parts.

Cheers!

Phil