Happy Holidays!
I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before with an Aquarite controller. I replaced the cell and main PCB when we moved into the house almost 3 years ago since the guy who used to look after the pool told me it needed doing. He said it was a bit long in the tooth and the old owner wouldn't change it out. Anyway it's been fine until about 6 months or so ago when I noticed that the inline 20 AMP slow blow fuse would randomly blow. More recently it was blowing fuses almost every day and as you can imagine it was getting expensive. About 6 weeks ago and thinking that it might be the board, I reinstalled the original PCB. To my surprise it worked and didn't blow a fuse!
Now however i'm experiencing a new issue whereby it will seemingly produce CL for a period of time then just quit. The voltage output on the display shows 0 yet the rest of the controls look normal i.e. power and generating lights are green. It does this even if its on 100% or super chlorinate. I just found the Hayward troubleshooting guide so will follow that to check the voltages etc. but it feels odd that it works fine and then just stops. I would have thought it would either work all the time or simply not at all if say the transformer or rectifiers were bad? Could it be the cell? Any ideas would be really appreciated!
GJB
I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before with an Aquarite controller. I replaced the cell and main PCB when we moved into the house almost 3 years ago since the guy who used to look after the pool told me it needed doing. He said it was a bit long in the tooth and the old owner wouldn't change it out. Anyway it's been fine until about 6 months or so ago when I noticed that the inline 20 AMP slow blow fuse would randomly blow. More recently it was blowing fuses almost every day and as you can imagine it was getting expensive. About 6 weeks ago and thinking that it might be the board, I reinstalled the original PCB. To my surprise it worked and didn't blow a fuse!
Now however i'm experiencing a new issue whereby it will seemingly produce CL for a period of time then just quit. The voltage output on the display shows 0 yet the rest of the controls look normal i.e. power and generating lights are green. It does this even if its on 100% or super chlorinate. I just found the Hayward troubleshooting guide so will follow that to check the voltages etc. but it feels odd that it works fine and then just stops. I would have thought it would either work all the time or simply not at all if say the transformer or rectifiers were bad? Could it be the cell? Any ideas would be really appreciated!
GJB