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@1poolman1, @JamesW, and everyone else, I just wanted to update and give you all a sincere thank you! I ended up getting the v-green 1.65 installed and everything seems to be working well. System seems to be holding prime, it took a few minutes to get things primed (by opening valves slowly 1...

@JamesW and @1poolman1 you both have been so helpful, truly, thank you very much for your expertise in this! So I would LOVE to do the Hayward VS pump and drive it with my current automation, but I think overall the additional cost is going to be too much to bit off right now. So I am...

That sounds great.... Thank you for digging this up @JamesW ! It looks like the Hayward 1.85 is just shy of $1500, which is unfortunately another $1000 on top of the price of v-green 1.65 motor. I understand this may be one of those "get what you pay for" situations -- specifically, it would...

Interesting... my panel controls definitely are more simple than the one pictured, but I was able to use that to determine that I am on revision 4.20. Does that mean that my automation unit can actually set the pump speeds of a VS pump? If so, does it need to be one of those Hayward pumps, or...

My apologies if I left a critical part of the picture out! I am not sure if this is considered "automation" (as you can tell I am no expert in this field :) ). It's not a manual timer but it does have a flow sensor, measures salt ppm, has a salt cell and a chlorination % setting (which I have...

I see - so based on this, I can't find any bearing part numbers and given that the single speed is a power hog, I'll just plan to replace the pump motor and seal plate. So back to your original comment - even though my old pump was always running at 3450RPM all the time, it did prime fine...

Thank you everyone for your replies!! @JamesW - I've attached a picture of my current setup (the pump is on the bench currently). I have a Jandy 1-way valve just before the inlet of the pump ("before" meaning earlier in the water flow). Water flows through 3 on-off valves (so I can turn...

Aaah - this is good to know. So Inyo recommended changing the impeller and diffuser also just on age, but they "look fine" to me. Sorry, I'm not 100% following you on the impeller info: are you saying that if I change the impeller, it will cause it to draw more amperage, but if I keep my...