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HBpool23

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Hi all - Just joined today. Was doing some searching online and found this forum. I have all Pentair equipment (about 8 years old). I came home today and the Easy Touch 4 button Interior control panel was on the fritz... It is the 520548 model with board number 520614. One of the buttons controls the lights for the spa and the relay was cycling on / off. I went outside to the equipment and could hear the relay cycling on the main Pentair panel. Did a bit of trouble shooting. I unplugged the relay from the back of the main panel (its like a 2-pin connector) but the light on the control panel continue to cycle. So I disconnected the interior panel and boom. Problem resolved. I tried cycling power to see if that would help but it appear the Easy Touch panel is bad.

Questions are:
1. Is there anything else I can do to reset the interior panel or is it just bad?
2. If it is bad, I had read on the forum that someone has rebuilt them. Just wondering if its worth it, a new panel is about $300.

Thanks for the help
 
Welcome to TFP.

Take the interior panel outside and use a short piece of wire to connect it to the terminals in the EasyTouch to determine if your problem is in the wire. Possibility the panel is good and the wire to the panel went bad.
 
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I knew Jim would recommend the Screenlogic ;) Don't forget that screenlogic doesn't back up your programming like an indoor panel does! (although it's a snap to re-program with screenlogic)

Let us know what you find after you try Allen's short-cable suggestion... that's the best way to isolate these issues.

I did want to know more about the "cycling on/off" you were seeing... was it happening at a set frequency (i.e. on for a second, off for a second, repeat) or was it sporadic?

(and that was probably me that rebuilt them ;) )
 
ogdento said:
I knew Jim would recommend the Screenlogic ;) Don't forget that screenlogic doesn't back up your programming like an indoor panel does! (although it's a snap to re-program with screenlogic)

Let us know what you find after you try Allen's short-cable suggestion... that's the best way to isolate these issues.

I did want to know more about the "cycling on/off" you were seeing... was it happening at a set frequency (i.e. on for a second, off for a second, repeat) or was it sporadic?

(and that was probably me that rebuilt them ;) )
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Seemed to be at a regular frequency. I will try the short wire piece in the next few days. Won't get home tonight until after dark. For now, no issues other than having to go to the main panel to turn on the spa (first world problems)...
 
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