Have a Intelliflo VSP who has that ridiculous clock reset when power out issue. I'm looking to find the part to fix/replace it but apparently have 2 options. Do I replace the Drive itself? (Believe part is 356880z), or the keypad assembly (believe its 357527Z). Dunno where this failed capacitor is located and would not want to duplicate parts.
intelliflo clock resets when power is out. Which module do I replace?
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This thread leads me to believe the clock capacitor is in the drive.
Have you check the price of the drive? I believe it is $600-$700.
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Have you check the price of the drive? I believe it is $600-$700.
Clock on Pentair Intelliflow
Installed a Pentair Intelliflow VS pump on our pool in Sept 2017, seemed to work great. Winterized the pool, ended up not opening the pool in 2018 due to health issues. Pool is open now, two issues: - Clock on pump controller will not remember time when we have a power outage, and we have power...
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The keypads maybe 150 bucks which is fine, if its the drive its around 700 which makes little sense.
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Pentair Intelliflo VF Clock Backup Battery?
My Intelliflo's clock resets to midnight if the power is disabled for more than a few seconds. Pentair customer service confirmed it should retain the time for 96 hours, and stated that if it wasn't, something was wrong with "the capacitor that holds the time." The only thing that could fix...
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Pentair customer service confirmed it should retain the time for 96 hours, and stated that if it wasn't, something was wrong with "the capacitor that holds the time." The only thing that could fix this is "replacing the drive," which they didn't recommend because "it's as expensive as the whole pump."
I have an Intelliflo VS (011018) that has never, to the best of my knowledge, retained the time. Settings yes, and maybe it doesn't lose it on a few second glitch, but every real power outage has the time messed up. Has anyone actually had one retain the time, and if you are sure it did when new does it still after a couple years? This is a common enough complaint that I wonder how it's really supposed to work, despite the Pentair CS statement. I wouldn't even count on a replacement drive addressing it (and even then for how long).
Definitely an annoying aspect of an otherwise great pump -- I wouldn't mind replacing a CR2032 cell every year or so if they'd done it that way.
Definitely an annoying aspect of an otherwise great pump -- I wouldn't mind replacing a CR2032 cell every year or so if they'd done it that way.
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I would think it would be cheaper to get the IntelliConnect or IntelliSync and control the pump with those.
From what I read and looked at it is, around 400ish. It's a little ridiculous to invest that into the pump. Thought it'd be a cheaper fix but oh well. It'll be the next homeowners headache.
Replacing the key pad is literally replacing your computer keyboard because your memory has failed. Its just the interface.
I know this is an old thread but was there ever an answer to this? I'm having the same problem where my time will reset on every power outage which means that schedules are all messed up because of it.
Thanks for the help
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What model number IntelliFlo pump do you have?
The answer to this is replacing the drive which is not cost effective.
Thanks for the reply. It's the 011018 Intelliflo Variable Speed, and it's definitely out of warranty and way too much to replace the drive.
I would think that if it really is a capacitor like I've read that the capacitor should be able to be replaced, however it doesn't seem like I can find anyone who has done it. Pump works great. Schedules no so much when the power flickers.
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People have tried and found it is potted under a lot of epoxy and impossible to get at to replace.
Well that's disappointing. Ok. off to try something else. Thanks for the quick help.
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Connect your pump to a $500 Pentair IntelliSynch that can control it instead of its internal control panel.
That seems awfully pricey to get the clock correct. I'm going to see if I can cobble together the nodejs-poolcontroller on a raspberry pi and see how that works.
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It is less expensive then a new drive or pump.
Nodejs should work if you have the technical chops to set it up.