Communication cable to connect PE653 with pentair variable speed pump

Alex,

Welcome to TFP.. A great place to find the answers to all of your "Lone Ranger" questions... or was that "Tonto"???

Well, the first thing you have to understand is that the SuperFlo does not have an RS-485 communications port.. Your PE 653 was made to talk with the IntelliFlo and not the SuperFlo.

I do think that you can use the control cable you have and connect the SuperFlo as if were some other brand of pump, but I have yet to come up with a wiring diagram that I know for sure will work. Let me play with it and see what I can do.

Basically the SuperFlo puts out 5 VDC on the external cable.. that 5 volts is then routed back to the pump on different wires. Depending on which wire has the 5 volts, one of 4 speeds can be selected.

You will need a CAT5-568B cable.. with a CAT5 connector on one end and bare wires on the other end. Basically you will plug the Cat 5 cable into your PE653's "Pump Control" Connector, the CAT 5 cable will then need to be wired into the bare end of the 353129Z cable, and then the cable gets connected to the pump.

This is a prime example of why it is a pain in the rear to mix and match brands.

Thanks,

Jim R.

It also looks like you will need to have the P5043ME Expansion Module...

Alex,

Try this...

At this point I have no idea of how you need to program the unit to make it do what you want, but I am pretty sure that if you wire it per the diagram it will work.

What I would do is wire it up but not connect it to the pump. Then with an ohmmeter you can test if you get the proper continuity between the wires.. as an example.. if you want to turn on pump speed #1, you would need continuity between the Red and Green wires on the pump's control cable. This would happen when the Intermatic closed the "orange" relay in the diagram..

Thanks,

Jim R.