Hello,
I am Robert H. Bernard, a retired engineer living in SW Florida since 2015 in a 3 year-old house that was new in 2013.
It came with an in-ground pool with a pump that had an Intermatic P1353ME 3-circuit controller that worked perfectly for 2 years but since has become erratic (suspect from lighting) and that Intermatic Support has adjudged has failed.
The only programmed mode that we were told about when we came was full speed of the pump with a clock timer,
and it worked perfectly until the pump suddenly started having a mind of its own during the time it was supposed to be off. Sometime running at half speed; sometime half speed; sometime short bursts of full speed on a 6-minute cycle. The Intermatic Support first advised reinstaling the program, which I did, and even after I reported the full extent of the programmed events the controller still malfunctioned and that was when the support said to replace it.
All I wanted to do with the pump was the simple on and off cycle that the P1353ME had been doing.
So from my experience owning seven previous pools I selected a non-electronic and less expensive Intermatic
T104M 208-277v timer I had used successfully in prior circumstances. It also fits in the
P1353ME enclosure.
I have the old timer hanging now and carefully moving the necessary wires from it to the T104M. Suddenly I notice that there is a third hot load wire to move.
When I look at the pump I see a hard-to-read a notice on the case. "This pump must be installed with a two - multi - and variable speed motor controller". I assume that the first circuit of the P1353ME controls the full speed mode and the second and third circuits of the P1353ME controller are for those last two modes.
Since the half speed second mode and whatever the the third mode of the P1353ME was doing, my assumption that I can just cap=off those two load wires. But I am telling all this detail to ask for some confirmations that my assumptions are accurate.
Hoping for an answer or at least a referral to the forum that covers electrical issues.
Thank you,
Bob
I am Robert H. Bernard, a retired engineer living in SW Florida since 2015 in a 3 year-old house that was new in 2013.
It came with an in-ground pool with a pump that had an Intermatic P1353ME 3-circuit controller that worked perfectly for 2 years but since has become erratic (suspect from lighting) and that Intermatic Support has adjudged has failed.
The only programmed mode that we were told about when we came was full speed of the pump with a clock timer,
and it worked perfectly until the pump suddenly started having a mind of its own during the time it was supposed to be off. Sometime running at half speed; sometime half speed; sometime short bursts of full speed on a 6-minute cycle. The Intermatic Support first advised reinstaling the program, which I did, and even after I reported the full extent of the programmed events the controller still malfunctioned and that was when the support said to replace it.
All I wanted to do with the pump was the simple on and off cycle that the P1353ME had been doing.
So from my experience owning seven previous pools I selected a non-electronic and less expensive Intermatic
T104M 208-277v timer I had used successfully in prior circumstances. It also fits in the
P1353ME enclosure.
I have the old timer hanging now and carefully moving the necessary wires from it to the T104M. Suddenly I notice that there is a third hot load wire to move.
When I look at the pump I see a hard-to-read a notice on the case. "This pump must be installed with a two - multi - and variable speed motor controller". I assume that the first circuit of the P1353ME controls the full speed mode and the second and third circuits of the P1353ME controller are for those last two modes.
Since the half speed second mode and whatever the the third mode of the P1353ME was doing, my assumption that I can just cap=off those two load wires. But I am telling all this detail to ask for some confirmations that my assumptions are accurate.
Hoping for an answer or at least a referral to the forum that covers electrical issues.
Thank you,
Bob
