My Aquarite system is 15 years old and I’ve had many issues with it giving bad readouts I.e.shows COLD when pool water is 86 degrees. I first replaced a main board 3 years ago with a non oem Optimum board and it was a straight forward install and good data resulted. About 2 months ago, I started to get spurious salt level readings - high salt when no salt was added even after heavy rain. I replaced the 3year old salt cell since it transmits salt levels and I figured it might be the cause of showing high salt…no change in high salt levels so I bought another Optimum non oem board. I always take photos of electrical hookups before disconnecting to be sure I install correctly. This is 240 volt power (comes with the jumper preinstalled for 220V) and there are 2 red wires -both 220V- that each attach to the lugs on either side of the jumper. All color coded wires that come out of the transformer/rectifiers are reattached to the board correctly. So….I go to the breaker box and turn on the pool breakers and immediately 2 of them tripped. I go to look at the board and it’s smoking! I disconnect it and see on the printed circuit side burns where the 220V power were attached. I know I had hooked it up correctly so now I’m lost. I even called in an electrician and he checked for continuity from the the transformer and that the 2 hot wires were 220V…all were good. He couldn’t figure out what shorted out the board. I’ve ordered a new non oem board but, of course, don’t want to install it until I find out what’s causing the short. Could it be the rectifiers or a bad transformer?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Dan
Any help greatly appreciated.
Dan
