Hello All
So I walked out to my pool today and noticed that there was no water movement and the pump had shut off. The pump was hot to the touch but still had power going to it. OK, so it must have overheated and the thermal protection kicked in. Great. Did some troubleshooting and found that my capacitor was bad. (it was pretty easy to tell it was puffed up pretty bad) My question is would a failed capacitor cause the running motor to overheat? The pump was running this morning and off this afternoon. It is on a timer but I pulled all the toggles off so it has been running 24/7 for the past week.
Specs:
Pentair superflo 1.5 HP pump
Capacitor is a 30 microfarad 370 Volt
it doesn't look like this motor requires a run capacitor so hence my question of would a failed cap cause overheating. I can't get a new cap until tomorrow afternoon so I can't continue on with my troubleshooting.
Thanks all!
So I walked out to my pool today and noticed that there was no water movement and the pump had shut off. The pump was hot to the touch but still had power going to it. OK, so it must have overheated and the thermal protection kicked in. Great. Did some troubleshooting and found that my capacitor was bad. (it was pretty easy to tell it was puffed up pretty bad) My question is would a failed capacitor cause the running motor to overheat? The pump was running this morning and off this afternoon. It is on a timer but I pulled all the toggles off so it has been running 24/7 for the past week.
Specs:
Pentair superflo 1.5 HP pump
Capacitor is a 30 microfarad 370 Volt
it doesn't look like this motor requires a run capacitor so hence my question of would a failed cap cause overheating. I can't get a new cap until tomorrow afternoon so I can't continue on with my troubleshooting.
Thanks all!