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HEllo Jim, Did you wire your 220 GFI breaker to the line side of the Pump relay. Then wire the Intelliflow pump to the line side as well?? Then wire the SCG transformer to the load side. Simply using the line side of the Relay as a connection point? -Bill

Hello Jim, Nice Pic. From the looks of it , I see 1 220v GFI breakers, 2 120v Gfi breakers, 1 15amp Non GFI, and 3 unused standard breakers. Is the big guy on the bottom left? Is that a surge protector? Are people putting the surge protection in the ET Sub panel or in the Main? My current...

Hello Brian, My ET 520543 will arrive on Monday. I need to read up on it. It this point I am assuming a standard 15amp breaker would suffice to power the ET. I just had the thought of tapping into that breaker and feeding it to a Security light above the Equipment Pad, rather than using a relay...

just a quick FYI, I was on HOuZZ, Additional Relays For Pentair Easytouch Controller. They are talking about making a ET 4 a ET5. For 42 $$$$. But most of you Experts probably Know this. -Bill

Thanks for the Feedback Jim, I am not sure the ET 5200543 is worth $400 more than the 520593? Like are the actuators $200 a piece? To step up to the IC60 which I could use in AZ, is nearly $1800. If I don't need the 4 extra features, maybe smarter to get the 520593 and when the IC40 burns...

Thanks for the tips Brian, My my old 1980 system didn't have a GFI on the pump, but my light and 120v accessory plug in has a GFI. The reason why I wanted to valve the suction line was, I want the option to automate how long the pool cleaner would run. In AZ, when the summer is in full swing I...

I have a 15,500 gallon pool, with a 1.5 HP Whisperflow, Triton II Sand Filter, and 20 some year old plaster. I will have the plaster chipped out soon and refinished in Pebble Tech of some sort. I am adding a few waterfalls 2 - 12'' Scuper and 1 24 " scupper. I am adding Autofill and a dedicated...

I got deeper into it, and after the deep clean it seemed to get better. During my last backwash I removed my back wash hose and put it back to filter mode. After awhile I noticed there was some water coming out of the backflush port. I remvoed the 2 way valve stem to check the o-rings. There I...

My thoughts were correct, I shut it off last night and it was over 25psi. This morning I turned it on and it was running sprited at 12psi. I left for work and an hour later and it was at 13psi. I know its not a gauge issue as, when it hits 25 psi, the flow looks like its down 60%. I cant get...

Do you have a sprinkler timer? I have a 30 year old pool without an autoleveler (My brothers pool has an auto leveler and it has failed and swamped his back yard a few times over the past 10 years. I just ran a pvc 3/4 inch line from a orbit water control valve (without antisiphon) and laid it...

I backwash it for a minute or two after it goes clear. I did the super clean for 15 minutes or so. and it never came clear. I then Back washed it until it ran clear. The new base was now 10psi. My 8 return lines were now blazing with flow and my vac side pool cleaner was on a rampage. 2 hours...

It goes to Zero. I expect that if it was clogging with debris, that cycling the power would not drop the pressure 8-10psi. I also would not think running a fairly clean pool for 30 mintues would have the filter clog up. I think I am going to do the deep cleaning I read on a post here. This has...

I have a Triton 2 sand filter. After I backwash my pool , and return it to Filter, my pressure base line has always been about 12-14psi. When the pump is running my returns are alive with high flow. Today I came back about 1 hour later I notice the lively flow is drasticly reduced. The pump...

I have an 30 some year old pool that currently is using a polaris ATV vac, attached to a Pentair Vac mate. I use to have a Haward pool vac but got tired of rebuilding it. I am getting ready to re-mod the pool. I was thinking of adding a dedicated vacuum port to the side of the pool, or a...

Is there a way to supply the information to the board it's looking for without replacing the sensor. Like bypassing the sensor. If say 3.2 of salt = 2.7 vdc and flow = 5vdc. that you could just get a pot and tweak it in to satisfy the interlock. At the end of the day I just want my cell to...