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    Separate scheduling for pump and heater

    Under menu-heat-pool, I set temp and have heat set to heater (the other option is off). Under menu-schedules-pool, I have 1 schedule: mode: schedule, 1am to 12am, Sunday-Saturday. I don't see a heater command within the schedule. Previously I had changed the heat option from off to heater and...
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    Separate scheduling for pump and heater

    Thanks, I expected there was something not making sense here. Pentair maybe gave me some bad info, besides me being clueless. On the easy touch 5K42, I only see a single pool schedule which applies to both pump and heater. The heater has a sepate setting to heat at a certain temp or be off...
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    Separate scheduling for pump and heater

    Hi all, I'm interested in having a separate schedule for pump and heater. This is for a non-chlorine system that needs nearly around the clock filtering, but running the electric heat pump the same hours makes for a large bill. While I could seek a workaround by separating pump from the...
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    Suction vs return side vacs

    Hi all, I'm a pool owner trying to work on the best way forward for my setup, which is non-chlorine copper treatment only, with a return side automatic vacuum on an uncovered 40,000 gallon pool. What I've found is I have good results for debris removal after storms with the return side vac, but...