Re: Pentair Variable speed pump to run non stop.
I had the same problem, and presented it on this forum. When my intelliflow pump ended for the day, the SWCG went nuts. It still had the green ON button lit up, it still had the green GENERATING button lit up, the CHECK SALT button illuminated, and the CHECK CELL light illuminated. I had to go out there every morning and turn it off and then back on before it would start to work. I finally figured out the problem: The Aquarite box was wired into an "old fashioned" timer controller...you know, the yellow wheel on the left powered the pool filter on and off at whatever time you choose, and the start/stop times depended on where you screwed in the metal clip on the wheel. The yellow wheel on the right controlled the pool sweep. When this box was installed, I suspect that the intelliflow pump hadn't been invented yet. It had an old pool pump that was controlled by that yellow wheel. When the intelliflow upgrade pump was installed, whoever put it in left the "ON" clip in place, but REMOVED the "OFF" clip on the yellow wheel so that the intelliflow would always have power. Obviously, the Intelliflow doesn't need to be told when to start and stop by the wheel, start and stop run times are programed directly into the pump.
So...at the end of a busy pool pump day, around 7:00 PM at my house, the Intelliflow shuts off. BUT THE WHEEL DIDN'T HAVE THE STOP CLIP INSTALLED SO POWER FROM THE BOX TO THE SWCG WAS NEVER INTERRUPTED. So, the SWCG is trying to generate chlorine, but no water is flowing through the cell and it can't detect any salt, so it doesn't know what to do. So the CHECK SALT and the INSPECT CELL idiot lights illuminate while it is still trying to generate chlorine.
I put the OFF clip back on the wheel and set it to shut off at the same time the Intelliflow is scheduled to shut down, and when the wheel hits the OFF clip, power to the SWCG is interrupted and the SWCG powers down until the next morning, when the wheel reaches the "ON" clip and power to the SWCG is restored.
Problem solved. I'll bet a lot of folks out there have experienced this when they upgraded their pool pump to a programmable unit like the Intelliflow.
