I ordered and finally received my IC60 and power center and spent the last several hours wiring the power center using my understanding of Marty and Jim's instructions. Just hoping to see if I am on the right track. The red circles on the breakers are the lines I ran from the Pentair pump 11028 to the relay. After quite a while I finally figured out the pool builder wired the pool pump wires number 1, 2, 3 to relay 5, 6, 7. So my 5th relay is my number one for the pump. I have a second pump for the waterfall on relay 6, and my lights on 7. I don't have the salt cell plumbed yet but just wanting to check my wiring. The yellow and red wires on #5 go to the yellow and white wires on the power center. The green wire circles is connected from the ground screw on the power center to the ground strip on the back of the easy touch. Am I on the right track ? Also I am going to hook up the communication wires tomorrow. I have the variable sped pump with two wires, the screen logic with 4 wires and now the intellichlor with 4 wires can I just splice the wires together ?
Wired my Intellichlor power center just looking for validation or correction
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B,
Your system will work the way it is wired. But I have to think if your pool builder was too lazy to wire the EasyTouch correctly, what else was he too lazy to do right... Sigh!!
I believe that the connection between the Power Center's com port and the EasyTouch's com port is just two wires. The green and yellow data wires. I do not think that you connect the + 12 VDC and - gnd wires. I do not know this for fact, but I would only connect the yellow and green data wires and see if it works first.
Thanks,
Jim R.
Your system will work the way it is wired. But I have to think if your pool builder was too lazy to wire the EasyTouch correctly, what else was he too lazy to do right... Sigh!!
I believe that the connection between the Power Center's com port and the EasyTouch's com port is just two wires. The green and yellow data wires. I do not think that you connect the + 12 VDC and - gnd wires. I do not know this for fact, but I would only connect the yellow and green data wires and see if it works first.
Thanks,
Jim R.
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- Mar 8, 2021
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Since I’m not familiar with the IC60 I’m not much help with wiring the relays. But I see a few things of concern.
The 2 pole breakers for the pumps should be GFIC.
This also applies to single pole breakers unless it feeds GFIC outlets
When wiring a GFIC breaker the white wire (neutral) on the breaker connects to the neutral buss bar. The hot (Black) and the neutral on the circuit the breaker feeds are connected to the breaker.
Every pump on its own breaker.
Check the manufacturers specification on breaker size for each different pump.
Only one wire to any breaker terminal.
Where a GFIC breaker feeds multiple relays, the returning neutrals are have to terminate at the breaker. Since only one wire per breaker terminal, run one white wire from breaker to a multi wire connector like WACOs and connect all of the wires there.
It you have any VS pumps they are wired directly to the breaker.
15 amp breaker #14 wire min size
20 amp breaker #12 wire min size
When using a black wire or white wire instead of a red wire as the second wire on a 240 circuit tape the wire red at both ends.
The 2 pole breakers for the pumps should be GFIC.
This also applies to single pole breakers unless it feeds GFIC outlets
When wiring a GFIC breaker the white wire (neutral) on the breaker connects to the neutral buss bar. The hot (Black) and the neutral on the circuit the breaker feeds are connected to the breaker.
Every pump on its own breaker.
Check the manufacturers specification on breaker size for each different pump.
Only one wire to any breaker terminal.
Where a GFIC breaker feeds multiple relays, the returning neutrals are have to terminate at the breaker. Since only one wire per breaker terminal, run one white wire from breaker to a multi wire connector like WACOs and connect all of the wires there.
It you have any VS pumps they are wired directly to the breaker.
15 amp breaker #14 wire min size
20 amp breaker #12 wire min size
When using a black wire or white wire instead of a red wire as the second wire on a 240 circuit tape the wire red at both ends.
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Thanks Jim. I have been to Lowes looking for rj 485 wire with no luck so I am off to Home Depot tomorrow. My pool is not yet opened but I will try wiring only the green and yellow wires from the Intellichlor transformer. Thanks again
Thank you for responding. I am less than a novice at wiring, i am only attempting to include my chlorinator to my timer. I and my pool builder had to wait 4 weeks before we could get the city inspector to finally come out and inspect the pool wiring so the job could continue so I am a bit concerned if it is all wrong yikes. The instructions I just re-read and Jim's instructions on this site both say the wires from the 220 transformer can go to either line in the timer, they are both power lines and are interchangeable. The picture I included is only the inside of my Pentair Easytouch . I know the wire is all #12 except I do not know the wire from the pump since it was included with the pump. Do you think I should hire an electrician to review the first electricians work? Thank for your time in responding to my project
B,
Not sure there is RS-485 wire. Just get any four-wire cable with something like 22-gauge wire. It will work just fine. Use two of the wires for the data lines and if it works great. If not, you then have the other two wires you can use for the + voltage and gnd.
Thanks,
Jim R.
Not sure there is RS-485 wire. Just get any four-wire cable with something like 22-gauge wire. It will work just fine. Use two of the wires for the data lines and if it works great. If not, you then have the other two wires you can use for the + voltage and gnd.
Thanks,
Jim R.
The instructions on the power supply from Pentair say to use all four wires. I did not try using just the two com wires. I used 4 wire irrigation wire to go from my easy touch to the power supply. Seems to be working well so far.
Thanks for the tip Jim I appreciate all your experience and wisdom. I took your advice Home Depot had 4 strand sprinkler wire by the foot so I bought it and wired it up. Of course the colors didnt match but thats OK. I still havent got my pool open so I just wired all 4 and spliced them together with wire nuts. Still might bug you later for trouble shooting if I screwed something up