Help! EasyTouch Solar Valve Won’t Operate After Creating a Manual “Solar” Circuit — Can’t Reclaim Automation

[julien2101]

I’m using a Pentair EasyTouch system with a solar valve on Valve A and a roof sensor. Everything was working fine with automatic solar control (based on pool and roof temps) until I manually created a circuit labeled “Solar” and assigned it the Solar function in Circuit Functions (failed misguided attempt to assign different pump speed to solar).

Since then, the system won’t rotate the solar valve anymore — even though:

• Valve A is still set to Used Solar
• Pool Heat is set to Solar Preferred
• Solar sensor is active and working
• The manual circuit has been renamed and set to Generic, but the label “Solar” is still stuck at the top of the screen for that circuit

I can’t assign “Solar” to any other circuit (it’s missing from the function list), and I can’t remove it from the one I assigned it to. The valve won’t move at all, so the automation is effectively broken. If I switch to solar it shows it’s “heating” but the the valve doesn’t move and nothing effectively happen.

I literally went through the entire manual to no avail. Looks like some sort of EasyTouch bug where once Solar is assigned to a relay circuit, it can’t be cleared. I want to restore full solar automation without doing a full factory reset.

Anyone else run into this or know a clean fix?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Rocket J Squirrel]

I'd guess you've confused the ET because there is already a built-in SOLAR circuit. You would use that circuit in the SPEEDS menu to set the solar speed to what you want (your original issue).

Have you tried rebooting? (Asked every tech ever.) Try the RESET button on the ET panel and see if that clears the condition where you can't get rid of your manually created SOLAR circuit.

Failing that, hopefully you haven't created too many manual circuits. You could try the Diagnostics > Clr Names function and see whether that helps.