Pentair ultratemp heatpump/chiller schedule help

[Lhegyi]

Can someone help me understand the best way to set up my schedule when I want to keep the heatpump running 24 hours?

Currently my pool pump runs 6am to 10pm. If I want to run the heatpump overnight I thought I could use an egg timer and set the pump to “do not stop” but that doesn’t seem to work so I’m going into my schedule and changing it to run from 6am to 6 am and then changing it back when I don’t want it the heatpump to run 24 hours

It’s running of an easytouch PSL4 and there are 3 pump schedules set. basically a higher pump setting for 2 hours am and pm and then a lower setting for the rest of the day. I believe it can only run 4 schedules and the egg timer would count as one but it still shut off on schedule last night with the egg timer set to “do not turn off”

Thanks!

 

[ajw22]

Let's start with getting @Jimrahbe to help you keep your pump running 24/7.

 

[Jimrahbe]

L,

Just so that we are both on the same page...

An egg-timer is used to automatically shut off something that is manually turned on. So you turn on X circuit, then the circuit will turn off when the egg-timer times out. If you have the egg timer set to do not stop, if you turn on something manually it should just stay on forever.

You EasyTouch Lite only have 4 total schedules and this includes any egg-timers or run-once programs. If you have ScreenLogic, it will let you enter 50 billions schedules, but on 4 will work.

To run a schedule 24/7, you set your time to 8 am until 8 am.. I suspect that 6 am until 6 am would be the same, but I have never tried it.

I am not certain why you just don't run your pump 24/7 and then you would not have to worry about turning your heat pump on or off. You just set temp you want and it should just maintain it. If you have ScreenLogic, you can set your temp, by the time of day.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[Lhegyi]

Ok thanks. I don’t normally need to run my pump 24/7 so I was looking for a quick way to override my 14 hour schedule to 24 hour easily. But if changing the schedule times is the best way I’ll continue to do it that way.

I also don’t hear the pool all the time I only heat it as needed as opposed to maintaining a temp.

I did not understand that was how the egg time worked though so thank you for that explanation.

I run my pump at 2000rpm for 10 hours a day and 2400 rpm for 4 hours a day. Is there an advantage to running it 24/7? I guess my thought is the swg is good for a set number of hours so won’t I burn it out quicker even though I could run it at a lower percentage if I ran it longer? Is there less pH drift running longer at lower percentage?

We have a 25,000 gallon fiberglass pool.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Jimrahbe]

L,

You should run your pool however it works best for you.

I was just making suggestions. The SWCG does no care. 1 Hour at 100% is the same as 10 hours at 10%. Running it longer at a lower output is the same as running it for a shorter period of time at a higher output.

I just like making a little chlorine all the time and skimming all the time Running 24/7 is certainly not something anyone has to do.. It is just something that works well for me.

Thanks,

Jim R.