Suction, outlets, and valves 101 please

Jun 12, 2014
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Danville
My Jandy actuators have broken and I’m trying to figure out how to manually move the valves but need some help identifying the pipes. The handles on the valves have also broken but hopefully you can tell where they’d normally be in these pictures.

Is it possible to tell just from these pictures what pipes A-E 9786C8AD-57CE-4FDF-9DED-DF9F8C8DE09E.jpegare? My only clue is when I put it in pool mode (lower valve) and toggle the upper valve so it looks this way (in red circle in picture) all the outlets all over the pool and spa shoot water out very fast and that stops when I rotate that valve (ie, water stops coming out of the outlets).

I’m trying to figure out how to increase suction at the skimmer and figure out how to only heat the spa.

Many thanks. Sorry for the remedial questions. I really appreciate this forum.
 

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A- spa return
b - Pool return
C - main filtered & heated water return
D - pool suction
E - spa suction

To heat just spa set valves to open A & E
For normal pool. Set valves to open B & D

The valve at C may be set to not fully close the spa return so that your spa spillover runs when your pool is on.
 
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