I've been researching for about a week and my head is swimming (how many times has that joke been thrown out?)...
I bought my house a year and a half ago and it's my first pool... heck, first home...
It was built in 2006 with all Pentair stuff... Intellitouch 4, DE filter, actuators, MiniMax heater, IC40... the pump I assume was junked, so they replaced it with a Home Depot special, Flotec 1HP pump. Oh, AND they resprayed the house before putting it on the market and painted over all of the equipment.
All three actuators are shot and I've already replaced the mainboard on the Intellitouch as some of the controls weren't working and it would sponaneously turn various functions on... the heater doesn't work... nor does the salt cell...
So here's my plan... I'm looking at replacing the pump with, most likely a EcoPump EP-4... seems like good bang for my buck... and replacing the IC40, perhaps all of the actuators to fully automate the thing, but not sure. For now, my main concern is dropping my electric bill and converting it back to salt...
I've been reading a good bit, but apparently not enough... I've got flow rates, head, and all this stuff bouncing around my skull... trying to figure it all out. In a perfect world I'd like to be able to run the pump on circulate, while running solar, and the salt cell will work... Any suggestions would be much appreciated... The pump and whatnot are roughly 40ft away from the main drain, so I think that means 40ft of head, but I read that the filter and all that other stuff has an affect on that too... just confused and looking for simple answers (if there are any!)...
Attached are pics of my setup - poorly taken when I first looked at the house...
I bought my house a year and a half ago and it's my first pool... heck, first home...
It was built in 2006 with all Pentair stuff... Intellitouch 4, DE filter, actuators, MiniMax heater, IC40... the pump I assume was junked, so they replaced it with a Home Depot special, Flotec 1HP pump. Oh, AND they resprayed the house before putting it on the market and painted over all of the equipment.
All three actuators are shot and I've already replaced the mainboard on the Intellitouch as some of the controls weren't working and it would sponaneously turn various functions on... the heater doesn't work... nor does the salt cell...
So here's my plan... I'm looking at replacing the pump with, most likely a EcoPump EP-4... seems like good bang for my buck... and replacing the IC40, perhaps all of the actuators to fully automate the thing, but not sure. For now, my main concern is dropping my electric bill and converting it back to salt...
I've been reading a good bit, but apparently not enough... I've got flow rates, head, and all this stuff bouncing around my skull... trying to figure it all out. In a perfect world I'd like to be able to run the pump on circulate, while running solar, and the salt cell will work... Any suggestions would be much appreciated... The pump and whatnot are roughly 40ft away from the main drain, so I think that means 40ft of head, but I read that the filter and all that other stuff has an affect on that too... just confused and looking for simple answers (if there are any!)...
Attached are pics of my setup - poorly taken when I first looked at the house...