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James, pump is up and running. Thanks again for your clear, thorough explanation of what I had going on. It made me understand how this was all setup. The other cables you see in the pictures are connected to the pool light and the other one is my waterfall pump. It's all wired up at the bottom...

James you are absolutely correct. This is exactly how its setup and you also described how my timer switch work. After you described this and I followed the wiring, I am now wondering if I might have yanked the purple one when I was disconnecting the old motor. There's no way that it would've...

Here is a picture of my old motor wiring and also the two timers. The low speed timer switch and the high speed timer switch with the purple wire. That purple wire was off and not connected. I am not sure how it came off loose. Since I left the old motor behind, I was not able to hook it back up...

James, I took it to the shop and they said something was stuck in the windings. So they offered to rebuild the old one or buy a variable speed one. Since my two speed pump was about 12 years old I decided to go with the new one. My old one goes to two timers. One that runs in low most of the...

So I went and visually checked the capacitors and see no swelling or bowing on the top. Is there a way to tell for sure?

A start capacitor or the run capacitor? I read somewhere here someone described the same issue and turned out to be the motor high speed windings.

Hello, I hope someone could help me out, I have a Pentair Whisperflo 1.5 HP two speed pump. The pool pump runs fine on low speed but when switched to high speed, after making a little different louder humming noise than usual, it starts for about 2-3 seconds and shuts off. If I am fast enough...