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I have just had my liner replaced, inground 20x40 and all seemed well, then I went away for a couple of weeks. I suspect the filter may have struggled while away (filter on a timer) and last night the breaker tripped, possibly related to a big storm. However after a reset the pump seems much...

While I did get romex it is 12/3 so I’m not using the bare ground but the three insulated cores - does that make a difference? It’s runnning through flexible weatherproof conduit (devil of a job getting the cable through the conduit!). i think you’re saying to but some rolls of single core THWN...

Thanks Dan, all I could get today was 12/3, that was about the best in offer at Home Depot - are you saying that’s not suitable when according to the book it draws less than an amp? There are three terminals labeled L1, L2, G when used with 240, there is a jumper on the main board which...

It’s a brand new 400k BYU Propane H400FDP

Well, I'm a little perplexed. The switch for the pump has three wires coming in, two hot and another. The "other" is connected to the ground screw on the two pole switch and the ground screw on the one gang box. So I spliced off each on the switched side, two hot and one ground, ran these to...

It seems to be quite the task but my new heater is almost installed, it is plumbed in, propane connected, all I need is electrical. The manual seems very brief on this, as it is a propane heater my understanding is it takes (as delivered) 240/220, there are three connectors under the hatch, two...

The heater is still in its box on a pallet, I was going by some of the articles I have read. I think that in line with what you have I should return the Wion, get the Intermatic, wire as we have discussed and turn the heater on and off manually. I think i was focusing in running the heat daily...

Now I'm tempted to run both through an Intermatic and put the Wion between it and the heater... then I could run the pump on a timer and manually turn on the heat (only when the pump is running) from wherever. If I had the pump run for say 6-8 hours every morning I could flip the heat on (with...

While I hate to change direction I'm feeling it may make sense to return the Wion and get an Intermatic as it's more of a known quantity at this stage for my application. While I like the whole home automation thing I'm not sure it is really necessary for me at this time. Having said that I...

I appreciate all of the discussion and advice, it is very, very helpful. I agree we have settled on the most likely configuration, the only unknown is whether the Wion will be ok with two feeds of each hot output, I suspect it will be fine. If I was adding an electric heat pump I think it'd be a...

The picture in post 17 is key, it takes two 110v hot inputs and provides a matching pair of outputs, the problem is there's only one pair. I suspect I can run two outputs off NO1 and NO2 like this to get me the two feeds for the pump and the heater:

This article seems pretty useful How To Wire A Pool Pump - INYOPools.com There are two hot (110v) wires and a ground (no neutral), in my situation these are the two that run through my switch. The Hayward pump has two terminals used when configured for 230v L1 and L2 (for the two hot wires). I...

I think this diagram illustrates the issue, this is a 277vac feed input to the switch and two similar outputs when the switch is activated. The issue seems to be that in the US a "220v" supply is actually two 110v lines combined, hence why my switch has two inputs not one. Usually a switch...