I feel like I have been left at the alter...

15 years ago

I have been running my Intelliflo VF pump on manual since the pool start up... about 3 weeks. I finally gathered enough courage to try to program it yesterday. I even printed the thread from Poolgirl and RepairGuy to help me out.

First off:

the Intelliflo controls the filtering, sweep, and the spa, which is always spilling over (4 foot wide spillway), when in filter mode. The pool is 29,000 gallons, I want to turnover the pool in one cycle, I want to vacuum 4 hours every day. I have an Intellitouch with the indoor keypad. After programming the thing, I have several questions.

1. At full speed on manual, the pump was running at 2500 watts. I now have it to run from noon to 9pm, at 1250 watts, 2800 rpm, 46gpm. This seems to be as low as I can go, and still have the spa spillway look good. Does this mean that since it was running at 2500 watts, and is now at 1250 watts, that I am using half the power?

2. Is there anyway to go lower and have the spa spillway look nice without having to buy a dedicated pump for the spa?

3. I want to use feature 1 to tell the pump to kick into high speed when spa mode is actuated, but I can not figure how to do this.

4. I want to program feature 2 as the sweep to come on at a certain time for a certain gpm, and can not figure this out.

5. Does the pump programming override the indoor control panel, or does the control panel override the pump? The pump was supposed to come on this morning at noon, but did not. It seems like I have to use the controller to do this. Do I have to program the indoor controller too, or does the pump let it know what programs that I type in?

Like usual, the PB knows nothing about it. He just told me to leave it in manual. To their credit, A&S told me that if I wanted one, that I would be responsible for setting it up. They usually carry Jandy. To make things worse, all I have is a printed out version of the quick start guide from the Pentair web site.

Thanks for all of the help.

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huskyridor
15 years ago
I've only placed about a half dozen true variable flow pumps with Intellitouch into service. I've actually had better luck with the 4x160 variable speed pump with an Easy 8 system. I'm certain you'll get better feedback from Repairguy, this man is on top of theses applications and the proper configurations of the Intellitouch controller.

1- Yes, running at half the wattage means your consuming half of the energy.
2- One of my biggest problems have been raised spa spillways with a very low speed. You can achieve more flow to the spillway by recalibrating your valve actuator to send more water to the spa return if your plumber plumbed it in the manner of no crossover.
3- The spa should always be enabled at high speed. I have no idea on how to tell the controller this. I'd assume that it should be integrated into the controller to do so.
4- This should be under system setup and in the advanced configuration menu.
5- The indoor unit programming should override the pump programming.

I hope this assists you.

Hopefully Repairguy or Product manager will see this thread and assist you better.

I'm curious, do you have a return (pressure side) cleaner or a suction side cleaner?

See ya,
Kelly
jennifer_in_clyde
15 years ago
I've had buckets of trouble with my automation - and have had good luck calling the Pentair tech line 800-831-7133 (ext 8454) for people who understand this pump/Intellitouch system...might be good to know if you don't get enough help here (and this was a hard number to find - someone in warrenty service gave it to me and I've held on to it!)
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repair_guy
15 years ago
2. Is there anyway to go lower and have the spa spillway look nice without having to buy a dedicated pump for the spa?

Yes, program a SPILLWAY so 100% of the water goes into the spa. Right now, you are cranking up the flow to get the desired effect but some is going to the pool. Try that. SPILLWAY is a circuit function.

3. I want to use feature 1 to tell the pump to kick into high speed when spa mode is actuated, but I can not figure how to do this.

Nope, you can't program FEATURE 1 or 2. Assign the speed to SPA and when you hit spa it will kick up.

Nope, same as above. Set it to any FEATURE (3-9) and call it SWEEP or whatever. You can make a custom name and call if George if you want, otherwise us the generic names available.

5. Does the pump programming override the indoor control panel, or does the control panel override the pump? The pump was supposed to come on this morning at noon, but did not. It seems like I have to use the controller to do this. Do I have to program the indoor controller too, or does the pump let it know what programs that I type in?

You can program from the pump and as soon as you plug in the pump on the RS485 cable and are in AUTO, the pump display will indicate not active. It is then under control of the IT. If it is not coming on, you need to check the assignments and the programming. Make sure you have a POOL assignment.

Keep in mind, most of your issues are in your IntelliTouch set-up. This is not a pump issue. It will work on its own. If you do not program the IT properly, it will take awhile to dial in but it will happen.

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