Pentair Intelliflo Vsf Easy Set Up Guide

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This is a quick video on how to set up your Pentair Intelliflo variable speed variable flow pump that were installing at a job.

Understanding the pumps panel.

This is the control panel that has a green light that means there's power to the pump. The pump is shut off until the next time it should run. I'll show you the panel itself. There are four buttons across the top, 1 2 3 and 4. Those buttons are set up to be used as push buttons for certain speeds and times. Below those are several buttons that serve different functions.

The four buttons on the bottom from left to right.

1. Quick clean which is how you would clean your pool outside of a schedule.
2. Time out and press the service report shut the pump down for predetermined time.
3. Next is the green to red button as your start-stop button. The green light above it will light up when the pump is turned on.
4. Reset would be there if you had an alarm and had to reset it for failure, to prime or anything else, this would reset the pump to start again.

See the light above my fingers that's the green light to tell you that the pump is powered up. You can look above in the screen and see that we are running a schedule right now. The schedule is not requiring anything to happen because it's outside of its time frame. In this case it shows that it's running on schedule and nothing is currently happening – 0 RPM 0 watts and shows the correct time above.

As you can see number one is selected and the top screen shows a timer, speed is 2550 RPM, it's not running yet because it's showing zero watts.

Now speed 2 is selected at 2550 RPM the egg timer shows that 3 hours and 10 minute run-time 633 Watts the very bottom shows it is running speed 2.

Now Speed 3 showing 1550 RPMs egg timer showing 3 hours and 10 minutes 199 watts.

Speed 4 is set up more for our customers. What we do is we set up for an egg timer 2,000 RPM for 10 minutes. This allows us to look at our Flow meter that we install on our DE Filter systems to know whether or not the filter needs to be cleaned or backwashed.

This is the flow meter that we use. You can see it's 40 gallon per minute right now. The pump is set up at 2000 RPM's for 10 minutes. This is how we tell whether or not we need to backwash and clean the DE filter. If after you recharge it and if it's still dropping down, it's time to take and split the case and clean out the cartridges and pleats by themselves.

Programing

Menu

When you press the menu button the first thing that comes up is settings, as you scroll down through settings you'll see,

Date and Time

Set the date and time of the pump.

Minimum Maximum

Next is minimum maximum – this is where you set the maximum gallons per minute in the flow.
Also the RPM the pump will run just to avoid over stressing that plumbing.

Device

Next is Device, so you must set a name of the pump if you're using Automation.

Alarm Log

Next is alarm log, this is where we have an issue with the pump shutting down. You would look here to find out why it's shutting down. After you reset it the pump should restart.

Program 1 to 8

Next is program 1 to 8, program one through four are the buttons that you see in that picture that set up for egg timers, countdown timers and other timers. Programs 5 through 8 are disabled.

When you press select from here to drop down the program you can choose one through eight to make and save whatever changes in the schedule or a timer that you choose to do.

Program 1 – Program 1 – 4 are about the same

Program one on this pump is set up as an egg timer. If you would select this mode right now and change it to schedule or disabled, once you are in a section like this, press Save and hit back.

Speed

Back in selection mode, this pump is set up as speed but you can select this and change from speed to flow or vice versa once you've made your selection press save and hit the back button. Speed and flow work the same. This is showing speed once you get to that point and hit select, a black cursor will pop up on one digit use the right left arrows to move back and forth. Select the digit and make the changes that you want to make. To change the value that you're after for example if you want to change this from 2550 to 2500 you would hit select Arrow left two times to the five, push the button down arrow down five times and make a zero, press save and then hit back.

Egg Timer

Here with the egg timer version of it, you hit select arrow over to what you want to run. Your time default it would be 10 minutes is your hours. We change our 1 2 and 3 a timer for 3 hours and 10 minutes.

Program 5-8

I'm skipping the program 5 this is where we set up a schedule to actually make this pump turn on and turn off.

Arrow down to program 5 and press select to bring up schedule, arrow down again allows you to choose speed or flow we chose speed. Arrow down again and it shows you the speed that is selected. Arrow right or left to get to the number you want to make any changes that you want.

Start Time

To save your changes when you change your speed it save and back, Then you had a start time where we're setting this one to start up at 6 a.m. in the morning. Get the scroll up or down to get to a.m. and p.m. This is how you would change it, so if you were at 6 a.m. you would scroll up 12 time to get 6 p.m. once you've done that hit save back and now you're at shut off time.

Shut Off Time

We're setting this one for 7:01 a.m. once you set your shut off time you hit save back get to the main menu by hitting back, turn the power off, turn it back on. At this point it's 11:45 a.m. on this pump and we set it to run from 6 a.m. to 7:01 a.m.

Program 6

Program six is the same as five also 7 at 8. You would do everything the same way as we did in five. The only thing I want to show you is that this one thing about time overlap. I can program five. You would go through the schedule, down to speed, change your speed if you need to in the speed section, select that then you get to the start time with your starting at 7 a.m. Schedule 5 we shut down at 7:01 a.m. the overlap will allow whichever pump speed is higher speed to run for that one minute just to avoid the pump trying to shut down and restart quickly. We are setting our shut down time for 11:01 a.m. Keep in mind this pool is just being set up to run temporarily for now just for this demonstration, also the water is in the 40-degree mark where right now it doesn't really need to run as much. The thermal mode is more important.

Features

Thermal Mode

Thermal Motors and features and we're going to go through features kind of quick because it's basically works the same way as everything else, just toggling up and down and making the changes that you need to make, an end of each individual section

Time Out

Timeout used in the feature section to make it where you can actually shut the pump down for predetermined time say 15 minutes half hour or hour. So this allows the technician to clean the pool filter. I normally hit the stop-start and turn the pump off, the danger of that though is its if you forget to turn the pump back on now it's not going to run at schedule.

Quick Clean

Quick clean set up is just like everything else in the system you have to select it, set your speed set your time, and normally set it for 10 hours at the high speed setting of the pump in 2500 2350. It's used to clean the pool when you're out of schedule for example you had a party in the middle of the night and then whenever you're done and you want to start the pool cleaning you would hit quick clean and run through the 10 hour program. Then after that, it would shut off if it's not in schedule. If it was in schedule it would switch to the timed schedule.

Priming

Priming I just lower the speed that it primes at so it's not revving up so high. I guess it's around 2,000 RPM.

Thermal mode

So far thermal mode set from the factory, you just want to check to make sure it's correct and that it's on. Make sure it's enabled by going through the menu like we've been doing, check your speed instead of flow.

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