Hoping the pool builder will warranty this again or work with me on a solution. My Pentair 1.1 hp boost-rite pump is dead. The pool is on its 4th season and they already replaced it one time and said there was a bad batch of these pumps at that time. Well it’s dead again and now they are proposing me buying a different model pump and having them install it for about $600 all in. I run the thing 1 or 2 hours per day and am only getting about 9 months of actual usage before they die. I’m soured one Pentair now and open to suggestions for other brands of booster pumps. Also wondering if using my VS main pump will work with the cleaner or go that necessitates an entirely new cleaner?
2nd Pentair cleaner pump in 2 years...dead
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- Jul 21, 2013
- 53,352
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
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- Mar 11, 2015
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- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Our pool, installed spring 2004, came with a Hayward booster pump. It lasted until 2015, at which time I replaced it with another Hayward booster pump (Hayward 6060 3/4-HP Booster Pump), which is still running great with my Polaris 280 cleaner.
My cleaner is a Goby GYP8 that looks to be identical to a Polaris 380. My
Failed pump is model # LA-MS05.
Failed pump is model # LA-MS05.
They are proposing installing a Zodiac PB4SQ pump. Is that the same as the Polaris PB4?
- Sep 1, 2011
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- Pool Size
- 21000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool Universal40
If you were closer I'd sell you my PB-4 pump for peanuts. heck, if you were near DFW I'd probably install it too. Seriously, at that price point, why not ditch the pressure side cleaner, buy a robot (Dolphin/Maytronics S20 is approx $700) and sell your existing pool cleaner on craigslist to recoup some of the costs. Then you would also save the electricity of running the pump.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 53,352
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
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Polaris has the PB4-60 pump that has been the workhorse booster pump for many years. The PB4SQ is fairly new and insufficient reliability information yet on it. PB4-60 can be had for $260 - $300.
Thanks for the ideas. If they will warranty this I’ll use the same model junk pump and hope I get 2 years out of it. Then maybe I’ll look into the robotic cleaners as my cleaner will be 6 years old and require some new parts/rebuilding. If anything, with it being down for the last week+ I’ve realized I ran the cleaner way too often, usually 2 hours each day. I think I can get away with 2 hours once or twice per week as there’s not a lot of junk that ends up in my pool. I’ve got a few small centipedes on the bottom and that’s about it.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 53,352
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
My Polaris 380 and PB4-60 pump has been running 2 hours a day for many years now with little maintenance.
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It didn’t kick on but you could hear the relay click or whatever it is. I called the pool company, they came out, confirmed there’s power to the pump after removing the top cover over the wiring. Tried kicking it on a few times and it let the smoke out of the wires.
Maybe it's just 2 bad pumps, but I suspect that there might be a power quality problem or a wiring error.