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Hi Bbp. I was faced with the same decision last year. You mentioned Wifi. Do you have Pentair automation? If so, it's hard to go with something other than Pentair. There are work arounds (requiring additional equipment) to get some basic Wifi functionality from a non Pentair pump with Pentair...

Well, After 2 1/2 seasons our PAL lights have some big issues. We have four PAL Treo 4 wire 12 volt lights (Model #: 2T4). The are connected to two PAL 12 volt Driver / Receivers (2 lights on each) (Model #: PCR-2D-35). The drivers are connected to automation and we do not use the wireless...

There are various fiberglass pool stair repair kits on Amazon. I have never use any of them. I think I would try to verify if you are loosing water though that crack before you tried a repair or you might be spinning your wheels. Amazon also sells Pool dyes with syringes. Release a small amount...

Yea, the electrician mounted pretty low (see pic). Also that thorny rose bush doesn't help matters. LOL.

Hi All. I remove my Intellichlor from my plumbing in the winter. Every time I try to reconnect the cable to the intellicenter when I open for the season, I have the darnest time aligning the pins on the intellichlor cable to the socket on the bottom of the intellicenter. The bottom of my...

Hi All: Well I am opening a little late this year. Due to a freakishly warm winter here in NY this year, I am expecting pretty dark water. I removed the pool return eyeballs, and the spa jets when I closed the pool last fall. I will put the eyeball back in the returns before I start the pump (to...

Hi All. I had a small mishap when closing my pool last season. My Pentair Variable Speed pump has a 3rd party vacuum breaker installed on it (I know, but it is required by code here) This device screws into the drain plug on the pump volute. Well, while pulling my garden house I hit the vacuum...

That's what I though, but I would have thought they would have run the hole furthest from the pool to the pump and that is the one with the plug.

It seems like I was kinda over thinking this. Instead of running a group of features. I just created a waterfall feature and that actuated the intelllivalve. Then I added the Waterfall feature to the list of speed in the intelliflo circuit and all worked well.

I think I have been doing this wrong all season and just may have gotten lucky I haven't damaged anything. This spring was the first time I opened the pool myself. There was a Gizmo in the skimmer threaded into the hole closest to the pool. The other hole had a threaded plug in it. Due to heavy...

AAahh. OK. So that pretty much makes all the RS-485 devices 2 wire. That helps. Thanks.

OK. I may have answered 1 of my own questions. I guess I can ground the surge protector to the metal Intellicenter case like the Intellichlor Surg board is..

Ok. After racking my brain on this (I tend to get obsessive in thought :)) I have decided to go the way of passive RS-485 surge protector(s) on my system, like the one Allen shows above. Now a couple of questions, I know most of the RS-485 devices work on only 2 wires (Yellow and Green). In fact...

There is a Pentair Easytouch user who posted on YouTube that he is protected to the hilt with surge protectors at all his panels, but yet his RS-485 bus keeps getting taken out. Assuming he does not have a CAT5e network cable running from his home's router or switch (assume he is just has an...

Well, with all the help from the members and users here, the damage from the lightning strike is behind us. Thank you all for your help. We came real close to having to shorten our season because with the heater out of commission the water was getting too cold. I am now looking to protect myself...

I cannot tell for sure by the picture, but it looks like you have a spill over spa. If so, we have had pool owners that have had a problem with the check valve at the return plumbing at the equipment platform (some of the owners did not have a check valve and that was the problem). This valve...

I am 99% away from fully recovering from my lightning strike. All the hardware is fully functional again. I just can't get the dam Intellicenter app or web portal to do 1 thing. I am trying assign 1 button on my 4 button spa side remote a group circuit I created. The circuit name is Air Blower...

Hi All. I am about to undertake the task of replacing several control boards on my Intellicenter due to the lightning strike we took about a month ago. We have four RS-485 devices (the heater, the pump, the Intellichlor, and now the high power Wifi antenna.) I know you can connect more than 1...

Well, I finally got an authorized tech coming tomorrow. At least the ball is now rolling. Since this is out of warrantee, I wanted to keep the boards and repair them to use them as spares if needed. But I have pretty much given up on that idea also.

My Pentair Hybird Heater control board and my Intellicenter control board.

Does anyone out there know of a company that does board level repairs on Pentair control boards. I am still struggling to find a Pentair service center in my area that will take on new customers. I have been waiting since Saturday on the last company I contacted to call me back. This is out of...

Sorry to reply to such an old thread. But might I ask where you got your board fixed? My system was hit by lightning and I am running into the same part availability problems.

Well it looks like this is going to be a long process. For now I am thinking about how I can minimize the chance this happening again in the future. I was considering a surge suppressor on the pool sub-panel but I read in an earlier post from Jonrahbe that his surge came through the Comm port...

I did reach out to the guy who sold me the equipment. He is reaching out to his Pentair Rep. He is most concerned about the availability of parts.

We have some pretty sever thunder storms move through here today and now my Intellicenter is dead. No power at all. None of the circuit breakers or fuses are popped. My Pentair Intelliflow pump still works. That is powered from a 220V electrical outlet who's breaker in in the Intellicenter so I...

Hi All. My Pentair IC-20 is connected to a Pentair Intellicenter. I am trying to get the cell into diagnostic mode (to see the life left on the cell) by holding the "more" button down, but that doesn't seem to work? Am I missing something? Thanks

Hi All: I have 4 PAL Lighting Treo 2T4 lights in our pool. Today I found the outer ring of one of the lenses in my robotic vacuum filter. Then center of the lens seems to be intact and still attached to the fixture. The outer ring is cracked and needs a replacement. For now I took the cracked...