Hi guys
First off - pool newbie here, first time owner or a quite gorgeous pool in sunny Southern California.
I seem to be having a problem with my Pentair Rebel, its not moving around the pool during the scheduled time. I can hear the pump kick in at the scheduled time, ramping up the RPM - but it goes nowhere. It worked fine when I moved in 2 weeks ago...
I have a pool guy that comes, he thought it might be the schedules or the suction valve, he adjusted - but no changes, it almost seems even more sluggish now.
This seemed to happen when I did the following: unplugged the cleaner hose from the inlet, and took the hose and the vacuum out of the pool. I noticed by doing that the pool status changed to "bad flow", because the cap had closed on the cleaner inlet. I couldn't re-open it as the suction was too strong, so turned off the pool pump to reattach. (this all happened in ~2-3 mins).
As a novice, on restarting the pool I noticed still it had bad flow error and lots of red statuses for salt levels etc. Little did I know that after 1-2 mins these would naturally go away. So instead of waiting, I panic and turn it off again. I thought I needed to reprime so after a quick google it says I need to fill the pump trap up with water, release any air in the system to prime and restart... I do all of this, system comes back to life after 1-2 mins with all green signals... sigh.
Anyway - since then its been no good. The pool guy came 2 days ago and checked the schedules and suction valve, but it made no difference.
Have I broken something? Where should I start? I've read so many articles about fixing this issue but they all point to air leaks or blocked baskets - I feel like I did this rather than something broke... maybe I didn't.
Any advice to a newcomer? Thanks all,
steve
First off - pool newbie here, first time owner or a quite gorgeous pool in sunny Southern California.
I seem to be having a problem with my Pentair Rebel, its not moving around the pool during the scheduled time. I can hear the pump kick in at the scheduled time, ramping up the RPM - but it goes nowhere. It worked fine when I moved in 2 weeks ago...
I have a pool guy that comes, he thought it might be the schedules or the suction valve, he adjusted - but no changes, it almost seems even more sluggish now.
This seemed to happen when I did the following: unplugged the cleaner hose from the inlet, and took the hose and the vacuum out of the pool. I noticed by doing that the pool status changed to "bad flow", because the cap had closed on the cleaner inlet. I couldn't re-open it as the suction was too strong, so turned off the pool pump to reattach. (this all happened in ~2-3 mins).
As a novice, on restarting the pool I noticed still it had bad flow error and lots of red statuses for salt levels etc. Little did I know that after 1-2 mins these would naturally go away. So instead of waiting, I panic and turn it off again. I thought I needed to reprime so after a quick google it says I need to fill the pump trap up with water, release any air in the system to prime and restart... I do all of this, system comes back to life after 1-2 mins with all green signals... sigh.
Anyway - since then its been no good. The pool guy came 2 days ago and checked the schedules and suction valve, but it made no difference.
Have I broken something? Where should I start? I've read so many articles about fixing this issue but they all point to air leaks or blocked baskets - I feel like I did this rather than something broke... maybe I didn't.
Any advice to a newcomer? Thanks all,
steve