I have not had a chance to contact the company yet with regards to a warrantee claim.
Replacement cell for Jandy Aquapure 1400
- Thread starter dndrich
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OK, excellent work here. Interesting to see how simple the device is. I see your failed electrode. Well done on this demonstration.
Good Day , just purchased the Australian cell from Salt pools. Does anyone have full install info? Since the 3 prongs on top are gone i assume we just connect direct as shown in a prior post and I guess my existing flow sensor would connect to the bottom on the Australian new one? thanks
wayner
LifeTime Supporter
- May 31, 2012
- 830
- Pool Size
- 100000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Aquapure 1400
I just installed my "off brand" replacement cell tonight. I order it on May 31. It didn't actually ship until June 14, and it arrived today. Six days isn't too bad for shipping to Canada. I did have to pay an additional C$60 in Customs and Customs handling charges to DHL. There was no instruction manual with my cell. It also wasn't clear if the cell and water flow was supposed to go in a particular direction.
I installed it and plugged it in. It wasn't obvious what lead goes on which spot as the colours of the wires are different. My old Jandy cell had red and blue leads. The new cell has a brown wire and a second wire with a blue wire and a yellow/green wire crimped into one connector. I assumed that the brown was positive and the blue/green-yellow was the negative. This salt cell does not have a three lead connector like the old Jandy cell - the cables are permanently connected to the cell. That may be a good thing as I have had corrosion on the pins of this connector in the past and I once had one connector fall off due to corrosion. But it looks like this corrosion may happen inside the cell given the picture shown just above. One minor annoyance - the sensor port on the bottom doesn't have a slot that holds the sensor in a specific spot the way that the Jandy cell does. So when you tighten up the connector the sensor tries to turn.
Initially no lights came on the control unit. After about five minutes it beeped and I got service code 172 and 180. I power cycled the unit and when it came back on the regular lights came on and it seems to be working now without any service code errors. After it was running for a few hours I tested my FC and it was up a bit from where it was prior to installing this unit.
Does anyone know if I connected the power correctly? Does it matter if it is reversed? Or would this just cause the regular flow and reversing flow to be reversed?
Does it matter what direction the flow is in for the cell? I have mine oriented so that the flow goes from the end with the bottom sensor port to the other end where the cable connects.
My cell is not completely full of water - the top inch or so does not have water? Is this a problem? Does this mean that I don't have enough back-pressure? If this is a problem how to I fix this?
I installed it and plugged it in. It wasn't obvious what lead goes on which spot as the colours of the wires are different. My old Jandy cell had red and blue leads. The new cell has a brown wire and a second wire with a blue wire and a yellow/green wire crimped into one connector. I assumed that the brown was positive and the blue/green-yellow was the negative. This salt cell does not have a three lead connector like the old Jandy cell - the cables are permanently connected to the cell. That may be a good thing as I have had corrosion on the pins of this connector in the past and I once had one connector fall off due to corrosion. But it looks like this corrosion may happen inside the cell given the picture shown just above. One minor annoyance - the sensor port on the bottom doesn't have a slot that holds the sensor in a specific spot the way that the Jandy cell does. So when you tighten up the connector the sensor tries to turn.
Initially no lights came on the control unit. After about five minutes it beeped and I got service code 172 and 180. I power cycled the unit and when it came back on the regular lights came on and it seems to be working now without any service code errors. After it was running for a few hours I tested my FC and it was up a bit from where it was prior to installing this unit.
Does anyone know if I connected the power correctly? Does it matter if it is reversed? Or would this just cause the regular flow and reversing flow to be reversed?
Does it matter what direction the flow is in for the cell? I have mine oriented so that the flow goes from the end with the bottom sensor port to the other end where the cable connects.
My cell is not completely full of water - the top inch or so does not have water? Is this a problem? Does this mean that I don't have enough back-pressure? If this is a problem how to I fix this?
wayner
LifeTime Supporter
- May 31, 2012
- 830
- Pool Size
- 100000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Aquapure 1400
Mine has been working fine. When it is set to 20% and the pool running 24h per day I have FC of 4-5 with CYA of about 60. But I have only had it for one month.
ok looks like my salt cell is end of life... now considering which one to buy for replacement...
wayner
LifeTime Supporter
- May 31, 2012
- 830
- Pool Size
- 100000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Aquapure 1400
Well every few weeks I wait the price keeps going up by $10... it was $359 and now $399
- Jun 7, 2017
- 9,101
- Pool Size
- 29000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Aquapure 1400
Dont think so.. i guess the demand and the cost of everything and this thread itself might have led to more people buying it...
Could you tell me how well your cell has performed over time? I would like to use the Compupool cell replacement for my Jandy plc1400.
Thanks,
David - Dallas
I got about 3 years out of it. I replaced it last year with the stock cell. On season 2 with that now.
wayner
LifeTime Supporter
- May 31, 2012
- 830
- Pool Size
- 100000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Aquapure 1400
No. Just 5 months. I don’t remove it for the winter. But I do bring the generation down to zero when the temperature is low enough. And with the rain the salt level goes down I the winter.
wayner
LifeTime Supporter
- May 31, 2012
- 830
- Pool Size
- 100000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Aquapure 1400
Thanks, that's about the same number of months as my system runs here in Toronto, but my pool is covered from early October to early May.
I live in California, and although it can be rainy in the winter where I live, it does not freeze. So my pool stays uncovered during the winter.
Just opened for the season here in NJ and my 1400 is throwing 120/121 codes. I installed this one new in 2017, so I guess the cell is probably failing. I tried an acid bath but there was almost no bubbling so I guess scaling is not the problem (nor should it be since this system has polarity reversal for descaling anyway).
Thinking about trying one of these off-brand devices since the 1400 kit is $1,000 new now (!!).
Thinking about trying one of these off-brand devices since the 1400 kit is $1,000 new now (!!).