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I have a cedar tub with a vinyl liner but it has cedar benches. My benches look the same as yours. Could be normal?

That's so funny! We can't handle it if ours is over 100. Maybe it's because we live in a warm climate or maybe because we use the hot tub right before going to bed. We usually stay in for 30 minutes or we get way too hot!

Thanks, this makes sense to me. Hopefully the more experienced electrician will be able to sort it out.

Haha, I was just editing my message. You're right--that's exactly what I want to do--control off/on with the timer and use the existing switch for hi/low. Apparently, the guy who put in the timer doesn't think the Intermatic 101R timer can do that. I don't understand enough about electrical...

Hi Super Pool Geniuses, I have a cedar hot tub with a two-speed pump (WMC Corporation JS Series--see attached photo for the label). The pump is controlled by two external toggle switches: one for off/on and one for high/low. I want to install a timer to turn the pump off and on during the...

Right, that's what I thought. I'm still at a loss but will call the hot tub company soon.

I'm just coming back to this today... I haven't done anything to try to fix things yet. I just wanted to say--what O rings in the jets? I guess I missed that in your comment before! Are there supposed to be O rings??? Yikes! I didn't see ANY of those on ours!

That's what I figured. I guess I will start cutting hoses and re-routing.

Well, I cut the suspicious air intake valve off. Sure enough the ball was stuck in place by a little PVC glue. I figured that was the cause of the problem, but I turned the pump on high after I cut the valve off. There is still no air flowing through the 5 small jets. I can blow air into the...

The new electrician was here yesterday. He looked at the entire setup and tested the voltage to the pump--everything checked out OK. They have to order the 240 breaker for the heater but he'll be out next week to put it in. That shouldn't have any effect on the jets, though. So my plumbing and...

That's good to know. Guess I'll be waiting while the new electrician orders it. I'm still glad I'm getting a new set of eyes on the thing even if the previous guy wasn't pulling my leg on the unavailability of the breaker. He charged me more than triple what he said he was going to on the...

See my other post. I'm getting a different guy whom I've used before and trust. Thanks for your help!

Hahahaha... Well, that's what I thought, too but the guy said there were "none in the entire state." I also searched the internet and saw there were some available at places like HD, but since I know almost nothing about electrical, I didn't question him. I thought maybe we needed some special...

Oh, boy if you only knew the whole story... the excuse he gave was that no one in the entire state had a 240 breaker at the time he hooked up the equipment. Our heater is ok to run on 120 or 240 so we agreed to have the lower one put in while we waited for him to get the bigger one so we could...