Intellicenter only sort of communicates with intelliflo VSF

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poolfusq said:
Curious on yours and 3 minute air blower on the spa?
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I run my spa blower and spa jet pump for a few minutes every day to exercise it. Since they may sit idle for a while not used that seems to keep everything working.
 
poolfusq said:
To keep the pool going, I've been operating the pump 1 manually, by disconnecting the 485 cable. Just to experiment I plugged it in now. It immediately says display not active. Still the intellicenter doesn't have any comms with it, still reports RPM 0 nothing. I hit spa mode. The pump ramps up to 3450 RPM (the SPA setting). But then about 30-60s later it drops down to some unknown RPM. It hasn't shut off yet but I'm sure it will any second.
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I think pump 1 has a comms problem.
 
poolfusq said:
Also what do you make of the wiring on the board-- particularly the first relay for the filter pump being empty?
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How do you chlorinate your pool?

Filter pump relay is not used with VS pumps. It is used if you have a SWG.
 
poolfusq said:
I am (I did pump 2's). But the Pentair tech didn't think it's that. He thinks some default settings were changed on the pump 1. I want to reset it to factory but they sure don't make it intuitive (I don't know how).
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@Jimrahbe @JamesW do you know how to reset an Intelliflo VSF (I am assuming 011056) to factory defaults?
 

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poolfusq said:
I do not have a SWG. I use liquid chlorine and tabs when my CYA gets low. OK understood re pump relay.
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Then you have no devices that need to be controlled by the filter pump relay.
 
Well I swapped the drives and the problem persists on pump 2 now... Prior to swapped the drive I swapped two intermediary comm devices. One was the piece that connects the comm port cable receptacle to the drive, and the other is the piece that connects the LCD display and the 485 port wire to the drive. I swapped both of those and it didn't make a difference. Then I swapped both drives, reassigned addresses, fired it up. Now pump 1 works just fine. For a minute pump 2 was reporting RPM and wattage and all that, yet still saying communication error. I then rebooted the Intellicenter and then it lost everything. Back to how it was with pump 1 originally. So, I guess I need another drive. Any suggestions on how to obtain one? I wonder if there is a "wanted to buy parts from a busted pump" section on TFP lol.
 
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poolfusq said:
Well I swapped the drives and the problem persists on pump 2 now... Prior to swapped the drive I swapped two intermediary comm devices. One was the piece that connects the comm port cable receptacle to the drive, and the other is the piece that connects the LCD display and the 485 port wire to the drive. I swapped both of those and it didn't make a difference. Then I swapped both drives, reassigned addresses, fired it up. Now pump 1 works just fine. For a minute pump 2 was reporting RPM and wattage and all that, yet still saying communication error. I then rebooted the Intellicenter and then it lost everything. Back to how it was with pump 1 originally. So, I guess I need another drive. Any suggestions on how to obtain one? I wonder if there is a "wanted to buy parts from a busted pump" section on TFP lol.
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Sorry to hear that is what it came down to.

Post a WTB thread in the Coffee Bar and specify the pump model number and drive part #.

You want someone who had a water leak that ruined the motor.

I will keep an eye out for folks posting about such problems.
 
to factory reset a vsf: tap buttons 1, 2, 3, 4 simultaneously. no holding them down for along time. just a simult tap. then it gets you into a backdoor menu, be careful! navigate to factory reset, change the 0 to a 1 and hit save. turn breaker off for a minute then back on.

anyways, the factory reset did not fix my problem. new drive to be here on thursday.
 
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