My problem in as few of words as possible: I went to open my pool, and the pump does not want to work. So what should I do next? This is more of a hardware question, not so much water chemistry. I am adding liquid chlorine and stirring up the water manually a few times a day until I get my pump issue addressed.
So now onto some details. I have a Pentair VS+SVRS 3HP pump. It is 3 seasons old from a new pool build 20K gallons, 2 skimmers, main drains, and 5 returns.
Towards the end of last year, the pump tripped my breaker. I would reset the breaker, and as soon as the pump got power, it tripped again. Solution, I unmounted the pump controller box from the pump, and saw some dust/cobwebs/etc on the power connector. I blew them out on both sides, remounted the controller, and pump worked fine for remaining 2 months of season.
This year, when I went to open this week, the pump shows the following symptoms. Breaker does not blow. LCD screen backlight (orange glow) does come on. No text shown on LCD screen. Buttons don’t seem to do anything. And pump does not run. I am assuming pump will not turn on since I cannot press the buttons on the display panel to select a pump speed/program and then press the start button.
So it seems as though my options are:
1.) Replace the entire pump
2.) Get a new controller for the pump
3.) Something else I am not considering
Any guidance on this would be very helpful, and quickly, as the green pool isn’t getting any clearer on its own. Thanks in advance.
So now onto some details. I have a Pentair VS+SVRS 3HP pump. It is 3 seasons old from a new pool build 20K gallons, 2 skimmers, main drains, and 5 returns.
Towards the end of last year, the pump tripped my breaker. I would reset the breaker, and as soon as the pump got power, it tripped again. Solution, I unmounted the pump controller box from the pump, and saw some dust/cobwebs/etc on the power connector. I blew them out on both sides, remounted the controller, and pump worked fine for remaining 2 months of season.
This year, when I went to open this week, the pump shows the following symptoms. Breaker does not blow. LCD screen backlight (orange glow) does come on. No text shown on LCD screen. Buttons don’t seem to do anything. And pump does not run. I am assuming pump will not turn on since I cannot press the buttons on the display panel to select a pump speed/program and then press the start button.
So it seems as though my options are:
1.) Replace the entire pump
2.) Get a new controller for the pump
3.) Something else I am not considering
Any guidance on this would be very helpful, and quickly, as the green pool isn’t getting any clearer on its own. Thanks in advance.