- Feb 27, 2010
- 86
- Pool Size
- 18300
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Truclear / Ei
jkurl said:If you add in an actuator you won't need to upgrade to the ps6 and add in another relay. The actuator will hook into the solar port. Your system will automatically see the solar port is used. Go into scheduling and set what time you want you solar on for. Then you can setup your pump speeds. I paid $400 dollars for my upgrade to iaqualink and I got a rs8 board with mine. I still think you can do this with out paying a large amount of money.
How do you add an actuator? Currently I have 4 devices using the Aqualink, and one is hooked up to the "solar" auxiliary on the Aqualink. So the pool installer thought I'd have to upgrade from ps4 to ps6 to get more auxiliaries.
I spoke with a Zodiac tech support rep who says that it is possible to program it to run at different speeds based on whether using solar or not. She also said that when my pool installer put in iAqualink, it always comes with a PS8, on the lines of what jkurl got. They told me the pool installer should only have changed it to something else if they discussed it with me. I really don't know what responsibility they have to do that, but I'm going to discuss it with the pool installer. Hopefully that will make the discussion of the actuator moot.
So would it be a better idea to use the spreadsheets to calculate the flow rate rather than a flow meter if it adds some back pressure and would probably not be something that I would need to calculate after first setting up the solar heater and determining the optimal/minimal pump speed needed for it?
mas985 - in terms of pump run-time, I had read that page a while ago, but I was thinking about what I read elsewhere here about trying to circulate the entire pool volume per day. I will try reducing the run time as per that article though. Good to know there should be no problem if I downgrade my pump.