Hayward VSP950 drops speed momentarily when wired into OmniPL controller board

tethys

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Feb 14, 2021
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Austin, TX
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15000
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Plaster
Chlorine
Liquid Chlorine
Just as the thread topic states: if I have my VSP pump wired into the Omni board, every few minutes it will drop its speed down and then recover. It happens quickly. So quickly, you would never notice it from looking at the return water flow in the pool, etc. Pump does not behave like this when operating in stand-alone mode. My first thought was voltage drop coming into the board, but multi-meter doesn't show anything interesting there. No alerts or notifications show up from the pump.

Anyone have additional troubleshooting thoughts? I have a tech onsite right now - but evidently, he has arrived with no tools or instruments that might allow him to troubleshoot since he was expecting this to be a controller programming job only 🤷‍♂️
 
Is this a new VS950 installation?

Did the pump ever operate correctly?

If the pump is new I would make a warranty claim on it.
 
Problem solved :) For reference: programming was wrong, set for "spa and pool have separate equipment" instead of "spa and pool share equipment". Per Hayward, caused contention on the COM bus which was confusing the VSP.
 
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