#PIXELSTICK SHUTS OFF EARLY FULL#

Hold down the LEFT and RIGHT keys on the directional keypad and turn pixelstick ON. Making sure pixelstick is OFF, insert your SD card. Copy both files to the main folder your SD Card. Now, I will go eat a bowl of ice cream so I don't feel so dumb. Well, this is good to know for future SLAMs, when I have to leave the filter on all night.

(Also, I cannot believe that every day for the two months before we moved in, I drove across town twice a day to turn the pump on and off manually when THERE WAS A TIMER!!!) Turns out, those days that the pump 'stayed on all night' were really just days we slept late. Weird, long hours, but it's also sort of like Christmas since I really, really wanted a timer and now don't have to pay $$$$ for troubleshooting. And it's set to run from around 8:00am to 2:30am. My husband cut the diary-type lock and, lo and behold, a pump timer, ticking away. It was locked inside a little box that said 'spa' in permanent market, so I assumed it was old electrical from the spa the previous owners removed years ago. There's a timer, and all the people who asked me, 'Are you sure you don't have a timer?' were right. So, what could be causing this? The pump never shuts off during the day (I am here all day and keep an eye on the pool, so that's a certainty), which makes me wonder whether it's really overheating.Īny advice is welcome! I'm going to start making calls this morning, but I'm not sure who to call first (e.g., pool place or electrician). But that was before the new motor shut itself off. Last week, after the new motor went on, I asked the electrician to come out to check everything (i.e., amperage, voltage, wire gauge, etc.). The pool was not open at the time, so the electrician couldn't test the new wiring and switches. As part of the rebuild, we had to move the wiring to a new post about 10 inches away. The pool electrical had been run out of the house and attached to the underside of the deck, then run down a post next to the pump/filter/heater pad. There is another factor here that I think is big: In February, we had our second-story deck, which overlooks the pool, rebuilt. This morning when I got up, it had turned itself off again. Last night I was wrapping up a SLAM, so I ran the new motor overnight for the first time. This confirmed my suspicions that it was overheating. The new motor went on with a new impeller, seal assembly, etc. They took the pump back to the workshop to see what parts they could separate and said it had all melted together. The pool store guy removed the motor and everything from the impeller to the mounting plate was stuck together, even after the bolts were removed. Well, the new pump was installed last Tuesday (July 11). (In the interim, I had run it overnight 2 days without problems.) It was quite old and had run hot since last summer, so we decided to replace it. Three weeks to the day of the first mystery shutoff (July 10), the pump turned itself off again overnight. The first time it happened (June 19), the guy from the pool store tightened some wires in back because they were very loose and he thought that might be the problem ( No Pump, Now What).

We have a pool heater on the same switch and it has a light that indicates it is receiving power. No breakers are tripped and power is running. Now, if I run it overnight, it sometimes shuts itself off between 3 and 6am. Last season (August-October) the pump run just fine.

#PIXELSTICK SHUTS OFF EARLY FULL#

This season, my first full season of pool ownership, I have been having some problems with my pool pump (Hayward Super Pump & Century motor).

Pixelstick shuts off early