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Dang - it's hard to get service over a holiday weekend! Meanwhile, just paddling around the pool manually adding chlorine... :-(

Hi all - I've got a Pentair Superflo with a weird problem. 2 weeks ago I replaced the capacitor because it wouldn't start (just hummed) and that appeared to fix it. Fast forward to today, and the pump is back to humming when I turn the power on most of the time. Occasionally I can get it to...

It ended up being a two part fix. I picked up a new starter capacitor and installed it - fixed the hum! Then I got a new O ring for screw top clear access thingy to the pump - the old one couldn't stand up to priming pressures along with the high heat of the past couple of days. Capacitors are...

A couple of additional notes. I ran the pump for a few minutes (after manually getting the impeller to engage) with the plastic sight glass top in place and it started pulling a trickle of water through but never seemed to want to pull more than that - usually it would prime within 30 seconds or...

Strange problem - I've got a 1 HP Pentair Superflo that apparently stopped working this morning. My wife called me while I was out golfing and said the GFI had tripped for the pump, and when she went to reset it and start the pump, there was only a humming. When I got home I checked it out - the...