Hey everyone, I switched my pump from running in "filter" mode to "recirculate" mode to recirculate my water until I do my next backwash. Lo and behold, a small amount of water started coming out of end of the pipe where the waste/backwash water usually comes from. It looks like about 1 pint per minute. Is this normal/to be expected, or should there be absolutely no water coming out of the waste pipe when in "recirculate" mode? Thanks!
leak when running in recirculate mode
- Thread starter FlaPoolGuy
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
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- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Sounds like you have a tear in your MPV spider gasket.
I am not sure if this is your MPV but it is like part #13...
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I am not sure if this is your MPV but it is like part #13...
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I agree with ajw22 but I do not understand what advantage you might gain by running in "re-circulate".
Long story. I'm currently doing a vitamin c treatment for copper staining (that's in another thread), and my filter pressure rose to the point I needed to do a backwash. Unfortunately I did not have time to do it at that moment, but I wanted to keep my pump running to circulate the vitamin c and sequestrant. "Recirculate" seemed like a good temporary strategy to help the treatment circulating until I could backwash.
I've since backwashed so can resume regular "filter" mode once I can dump DE in the skimmer.
Because I'm still relatively new at pool ownership and maintenance, I wanted to know if the fluid leak was a well known sign of impending failure. Thank you again!
I've since backwashed so can resume regular "filter" mode once I can dump DE in the skimmer.
Because I'm still relatively new at pool ownership and maintenance, I wanted to know if the fluid leak was a well known sign of impending failure. Thank you again!
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Bless my wife's heart she "jiggled the handle" and the leak went way down. Still going to replace the spider gasket, but the time pressure is reduced. Thank you!