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Ok, using other forum posts and help from this one too, I was able to figure out both the small leak and the humming noise. The humming noise did in fact go away once the new filter came on Friday and was installed. Water is shooting out into the pool like a fire hose now compared to the...

Last night I took apart the area where the basket meets the pump to see if there was some o-ring problems going on. Sure enough, there was. In fact, before I took it off, with the pump off and hoses disconnected / water drained out, i ran my finger across the internal fitting where that leak was...

Huh...cartridges can "go bad" like that even after they were cleaned? I will play with it again tonight and see if i can get this sound to go away. The leak i will worry about after i get the sound fixed...or if filter cartridge placement (I saw on some other posts people would flip their...

Thanks OldPoolMan for coming back to me and my noisy pump/filter. So, i did some serious googling and found this post from 2012, about a Waterway catridge filter making a sound similiar to mine. Buzzing noise from the filter Could it be that i need a new filter as well?? I took it out and...

The sound is 100% coming from the top, inside of the filter. Watch the video again with volume on full, you can hear it. You are saying that the motor is causing the sound heard at the pinnacle of the filter by the PSI gauge? Tonight I went out there while it was running and where the clean...

The sound is 100% coming from the top

After a somewhat hot weekend (for Wisconsin standards anyways) my cartridge filter now makes a decent humming sound when I fire it up. The sound takes a few seconds to kick in when the pump is fired up. This is my first summer with a pool (bought the house in May) so I am not only a rookie pool...