Pentair Intelliflo3 VSF Pump issue

[RON C]

I have a Pentair Intelliflo3 VSF pump and an EasyTouch Control Panel. In the Auto mode, the pump runs as scheduled from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm every day.
However, everyday I receive an email at 3:05 pm stating that my IntelliFlo/Pro3 VSF is offline.
I would like to be able to start the pump between 7:00 pm and 11:00 to use the jacuzzi but cannot because the controller has lost communication with the pump from 3:00 pm to 9:00 am.
I have read similar posts and tried everything.
How can I correct this issue?

 

[mknauss]

Welcome to the forum.

Your pump is wired on the LOAD side of the Filter/Pump relay. It needs to wired to the LINE side, or preferably, directly to its circuit breaker.

 

[RON C]

Okay thank you.
I'll look into this.

 

[RON C]

So today I changed the wiring. You were correct about it being wired on the Load side. I just switched the wires to the Line side.
Power (wires) from the breakers now runs to the Load side and wires from the Line side run to the pump.
However after the schedule ended at 3:00pm, I got the following two error messages:
Pump 1: Communication lost
Chlorinator: Communication lost (I don't have a chlorinator)
I tried to start the pump again but can't.
What should I do next?

 

[Rancho Cost-a-Lotta]

Power (wires) from the breakers now runs to the Load side

This doesn't sound right. Wires from the breakers should normally run to the line side. Can you take some photos?

 

[RON C]

I can't attach photos of pdf. I get a message saying photos are to large

 

[Rancho Cost-a-Lotta]

@Newdude

Can you advise how to reduce photo size. I think has something to do with switching off HDR but I've never had that problem.

 

[RON C]

This doesn't sound right. Wires from the breakers should normally run to the line side. Can you take some photos?

Sorry. Even one single photo is lo large.

 

[wireform]

Screenshot the photo then use that.

 

[RON C]

Hope this works. Compressed photos

 

[wireform]

You're making it complicated, just screenshot and post.

 

[Rancho Cost-a-Lotta]

You're making it complicated, just screenshot and post.

Yes...try this.

 

[RON C]

I created a screen shot with the photos but its also to large.
Sorry

 

[wireform]

Ron, sent you a pm.

 

[Newdude]

HDR definitely needs to be off

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[RON C]

 

[Newdude]

Almost there. Upload them however you did. Then click 'insert' and 'full image' so they aren't grainy attachments at the end if the post.

 

[RON C]

Line 1 (two blue wires) = one blue wire goes to the pump and one blue wire goes to the heater.

 

[wireform]

Looks like the wire from the double breaker goes to the load.

 

[RON C]

I will have a friend help me correctly post photos later. Thanks everyone for your comments.