Sorry if I’m not posting this in the right forum. But I’m both ranting and hoping there are solutions I’m not seeing.
I have a Pentair setup. I use the new Pentair pool app.
When the temperature gets cold, or it snows, that’s when my family likes to use the spa.
Except that’s also when freeze protection kicks in. So you turn on spa mode, and the system immediately kicks it back off because it wants to keep running freeze protection.
The only solution I’ve found for that is to go into the app and then into advanced settings to go into each circuit and turn off feeeze protection so that the spa and heater can be turned on and run.
Then I have to remember when I’m done to turn freeze protection back on for all the relevant circuits.
COME ON, PENTAIR!!! It should not have to work that way. There should be an easy temporary override of freeze protection for spa use.
And that makes sense. People love to use their spas in cold weather. It’s fun. It feels great.
BUT WAIT, it gets worse.
I can’t find the feature, or a way to override it. But there’s clearly something programmed into the system that disables the heater from even being able to turn on and work when the outside air temperature gets below a certain level.
I haven’t found a way to alter this feature temporality or permanently. Also dumb.
The only workaround I’ve found is to go into the system settings and recalibrate the outside air temperature thermometer to read higher than the temperature really is.
Then I have to go through all the irritating steps listed above about freeze protection.
And then, again, I have to remember to undo all that when done with the spa.
This is all nonsense. Pentair needs to make this simple. There should be a temporary and quick, one-button choice to override all this and make run the spa/heater in cold weather.
They make it hard and difficult. And they create the peril of forgetting to undo all those overrides at the end. So the problems they create are worse than the risks they are even trying to avoid in the first place.
Rant over.
Are there any better solutions here?
I have a Pentair setup. I use the new Pentair pool app.
When the temperature gets cold, or it snows, that’s when my family likes to use the spa.
Except that’s also when freeze protection kicks in. So you turn on spa mode, and the system immediately kicks it back off because it wants to keep running freeze protection.
The only solution I’ve found for that is to go into the app and then into advanced settings to go into each circuit and turn off feeeze protection so that the spa and heater can be turned on and run.
Then I have to remember when I’m done to turn freeze protection back on for all the relevant circuits.
COME ON, PENTAIR!!! It should not have to work that way. There should be an easy temporary override of freeze protection for spa use.
And that makes sense. People love to use their spas in cold weather. It’s fun. It feels great.
BUT WAIT, it gets worse.
I can’t find the feature, or a way to override it. But there’s clearly something programmed into the system that disables the heater from even being able to turn on and work when the outside air temperature gets below a certain level.
I haven’t found a way to alter this feature temporality or permanently. Also dumb.
The only workaround I’ve found is to go into the system settings and recalibrate the outside air temperature thermometer to read higher than the temperature really is.
Then I have to go through all the irritating steps listed above about freeze protection.
And then, again, I have to remember to undo all that when done with the spa.
This is all nonsense. Pentair needs to make this simple. There should be a temporary and quick, one-button choice to override all this and make run the spa/heater in cold weather.
They make it hard and difficult. And they create the peril of forgetting to undo all those overrides at the end. So the problems they create are worse than the risks they are even trying to avoid in the first place.
Rant over.
Are there any better solutions here?
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