Recent content by astroman

This is a little late, but I'm hoping someone will learn something from it. I called Pentair support again and this time I got a nice woman that just stated, "Oh, you need to clean your filter." I did and now everything works fine. My guess after cleaning my filter is that I didn't have...

I talked with Pentair support. They told me to set the prime time back to 2 minutes. That just makes the priming error come on that much faster. I was surprised by the tension on the phone. They really didn't want to talk with me. I need to try again. I just checked my pump on its...

I'm new at pool cleaning. I need to understand how to vaccuum my pool. When I attach my vaccuum hose to the vaccuum head and put it into the pool, some of the hose is submerged and filled with water, but a large portion is not. This potentially introduces a lot of air into the circulation...

I tried setting the set clean filter pressure to 5psi, but that didn't work. Here's what I found out tonight. The "Manual" mode seems to have the problem. When I gave the pump a rest (around 30 minutes) and started it in "Feature 1" mode, it went through priming just fine and obtained prime...

1) The pump does say "Priming". 2) The pump stays full of water the whole time, both when it starts and as it pumps. There is no observable leak in the filter. The pump does occassionally reach a "primed" state and pump normally, but it isn't common. I've also released pressure from the top...

The 30GPM didn't work either. Call me stupid, but I thought priming was just something the pump did automatically to ensure everything is in working order. If priming means getting water into the pump, then my pump is already primed and ready to go. Upon start the pump filter basket only has...

My pool is built-in so the pump is probably only a foot above the waterline. The pump primes every time it starts. At the time it starts there is plenty of water in the pump. In fact the pump filter basket is usually completely full or almost completely full with only a few air bubbles at the...

I have the same exact problem. My Intelliflow tries over and over to complete a prime cycle and enters an error condition. I have plenty of water in the pump, it just won't prime - it ramps up, then down, surges, and then repeats.