solar plumbing repair

I must be able to follow your plumbing completely from your filter output through to the return.

In this picture, pipes disappear to the right.

And none of the pictures show where that black square actuator is .

Here is the way I understand your setup...

Water flows through your pump and filter and out to the solar diverter in the blue pipe.

At the solar diverter the water is sent directly to the pool returns through the green pipe. And along the way it gets chlorinated by the cell in the pipe.

Or if the SolarTouch controller determines the solar panels can heat the water it moves the valve to send water down the orange pipe to the solar panels.



If I follow the pipes on the wall in this picture it looks like the return water pipe (green) turne the wall.

While the solar feed pipe (orange) goes into the ground.

Are those yellow pipes coming out of the wall suction pipes into the pump?



Now, we follow the pipes around the corner in this picture...

The green pipe contains the chlorinated return water.

The orange pipe contains water to be heated by the solar panels.

I am lost as to where the blue and brown pipes lead.

Or why there is a T in the green pipe,

Or what that manual diverter is for?

Which pipe leads to the pool returns?



The diagram below is a standard solar panel plumbing setup and I used the same colors to correspond to your lines.

The red circled 3-way valve is your solar diverter valve. That either send water straight through to the pool or to the solar panels to be heated.

The unheated or heated solar water connect in a T that feeds the pool returns. The SWG should be placed after the T so that water is chlorinate whether it runs through the solar heater or not.

In summary, you whole setup is janky and I cannot follow the flow. Please explain.

Taking a different view of this makes more sense....

Filtered water comes up the orange pipe.

This diverter is your 3 way valve that controls the solar heat. This valve is where the SolarTouch should be controlling with an actuator.

The brown pipe carries water to the solar panel.

The blue pipe has solar heated water.

At the T, either solar-heated water or un-heated water are carried by the green pipe back to the pool equipment.



Water flows back to the equipment pad on the green pipe and through the SWG.

I cannot understand the birds nest of pipes in the middle as they are a jumble of white pipes to me,

Where is the return pipe leading back to the pool?

That black three-way diverter with the actuator has three ports. I can only see two, and I'm not sure what the three ports connect to.

I still cannot connect all the dots. You have to fill in the blanks.