Understanding Pentair Intellitouch/Screenlogic Setup

[PoolDanimal]

Hello,

New pool owner here (via home purchase), just got our pool opened this week. Trying to get comfortable with the Screenlogic interface, and I apologize in advance for really dumb questions! Thought our system was busted at first, every time I would turn on the spa, lights, features, etc...it would turn off after 1 minute. Realized everything had egg timers set, ugh! App is very clunky - wouldn't let me put the timers down to zero at first without going up, but eventually everything seems to be functioning. What would be a good use for the egg timers?

I see there was a schedule previously set - is this something I should keep enabled? What is the point of it - to make sure the spa is getting filtered regularly?



I've figured out what most of the features do, but any idea what Pool high and Jet 1 Side are?



The pool has fountains on the pool sides and a spillway from the spa to pool. I'm sure a dumb question, but are those mostly for decorative purposes, or should I say run the spillway regularly so that water flows to the pool. Wasn't clear if those are something I should leave on all the time.

Any other tips or recommendations would be much appreciated! Been trying to read as much as possible to hopefully get to speed shortly

 

[ajw22]

Welcome to TFP.

To turn off egg timers set them to 12 hours, not zero.

For everything to operate properly, your pool should be running on a schedule in POOL mode. The schedule should be enabled.

I don't know why the prior owner wanted to run the spa for 3 hours every morning unless they used it.

It is good to run the spa daily to exercise the spa jets and blower if you have one.

My IntelliCenter pool/spa schedule is:



You must run your spillway once or twice daily to refresh the spa water and ensure it stays chlorinated.

Pool high is likely a Feature Circuit that just increases the pump speed for times when you want more flow.

Jets 1 Side may turn on a pump, turn an actuator valve, or increase pump speed for your spa. You need to look in the settings as to what is defined for that circuit.

Read Pentair Automation Systems - Further Reading to get an overview of how Pentair think and programming works.

 

[PoolDanimal]

Thanks @ajw22 for the response, much appreciated!

And also thanks for sharing the schedule. So if I read that correctly, you have your pool mode running all the time. No need for the spa schedule then unless we regularly use the spa at a certain time and want it ready to go? Good deal on the Spillway, I think I'll start with a schedule like that. I only see Spa Air blower, no jets listed in features.

Thanks for the link, very helpful! I guess I should look into the IntelliTouch to IntelliCenter upgrade at some point. I'm not exactly sure how I look the settings/configs for my system - is that a separate app from the screenlogic mobile app?