Newbie in need of help! Circulation pump won't stop.

[EquestJess]

Hello, all!

I'm new to this forum and to hot tubs. My husband and I bought a home that came with a CalSpa hot tub. It's a 2004 or 2005. We have been in the home since the beginning of June and have had nothing but issues with this thing. First, we got an FL code which we had Watson's come to help with. They replaced a valve of some sort which cost us almost $200. It worked for about a week and then gave us SN error. We had Watson's back out and another $400 later and a new control board (or maybe it's called a circuit board) it was up and going again. That was last Thursday. I drained and refilled and shocked etc.. by Monday me and the toddler were enjoying a glorified kiddie pool. We have used it every night since... last night being the last time. I have the heat turned down to 80 but somehow it is reading 87 since last night and the circulation pumps will not turn off. I can hit "jets" and the jets come on and then I'll hit "jets" again and the circulation pump stops for a couple seconds and then kicks back on. I tried turning the whole thing off and on using the breaker and the circulation pumps still kick right back on. This is going to be a heck of an electric bill if I don't figure it out. It has almost been running 24 hours now. It has never done this before last night. Please help!

 

[Jimrahbe]

E,

Welcome to TFP... A Great resource for all your "kiddie pool" questions...

Just to make sure we are on the same page...

A lot of spas have three pumps or pump functions...

1. Circulation pump.. This pump is often on 100% of the time.. it provides a constant very slow movement of water through the system.
2. Jet pump.. this is the pump that makes the water come out of the jets in the Spa at a very fast rate.
3. Air pump.. this is when air is introduced into the jets so that you get a lot of bubbles..

So my question is... is it the circulation pump that is running all the time or the Jet pump?

As far as temperature.. what is your outside air temp? You may have turned the heater down to 80 but the water will not get much below the current air temp. In my case, even though the heater is off, I still get some heat increase just from the circulator pump running and the heat being trapped by the cover.

I'm pretty new to Spas, so let's see what our other Spa owners have to say...

Thanks for posting,

Jim R.

 

[EquestJess]

Thank you for replying!!! It actually just stopped! I was going to go take a video to try to show you what it was and it was still and quiet with no error code. Temp now reading 88. Current temp here is 82 but humidity makes the index 86. So maybe that's it. Strange. I'll follow up in a little while if the problem persists.

But I think this was the circulation pump that was running. I always thought it only ran for 15-20 minute intervals a couple times a day just to keep things filtered. At least it did prior to the new board being installed. But maybe that's because we had a faulty board?