This is Poolside Chat
where every week, we answer your questions
on how to fix and maintain your swimming pool.
Poolside Chat is presented by inYoPools.com
“Helping Pool Owners Find the Right Parts Since 2001.”
Now, here's your hosts, Matt and Rob.
Hello, and welcome back to another amazing episode
of Poolside Chat presented by inYoPools.com
I'm Rob, also known as Paul Simon.
To my right Art Garfunkel, a.k.a. Matt.
Bring in the Funkel. Bring in the noise.
Or is it "bring in the noise, bring in the funk"?
By the way, I always thought of
me being the George Michael, and you're the Andrew Ridgeley.
Too obscure. Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel.
Sledgehammer -- boom!
– Alright, nailed it. – Nailed it.
– Alright let's do this. – Let's go.
First question.
Looks like we've got a question from Jim.
It's actually a multimedia-type question. We've got a video.
– Jim got fancy. – Super fancy. Fancy and 'shmancy'.
Let's read the question first.
“I installed our motor yesterday, the UST1102.”
He got it from us.
“It seems to be working, but has this clicking sound
and can never completely fill the skimmer basket in front of the motor.
What is the problem?”
We will go to the video tape.
Roll tape.
And scene.
Rob, do you have an answer?
I sure do.
Jim, that clicking sound is coming from the back of your motor.
It's the governor opening and closing.
I was a mayor once.
You were a mayor?
That's a governor joke, never mind. Go ahead.
But now, a couple of reasons why this could be happening.
The first would be the voltage. The motors come set on 230v.
Most of the motors come in set on 230v.
And when you apply 115 voltage to it, it doesn't give it enough power,
so it might just start to turn on, but it's just clicking. It doesn't fully kick in.
Another reason why you could hear clicking is
if your old motor was a full rated motor and your newer motor is an up rated motor,
which means that the full rated motor has a higher service factor, it's stronger.
So when you put an up rated, a weaker motor, on there
it's not strong enough to spin the impeller for a full rated system.
So that could also cause the clicking.
So basically, the governor is like a centrifugal switch.
So if it's not fast enough to spin it can't fully get the --
– It doesn't open up all the way. – Okay, so that's what it is.
I like to dumb it down for me just because --
He's the super tech, a.k.a. Andrew Ridgeley,
the brain behind the operation,
and I'm the face.
So it's nothing you can do about that.
– But thank you for the answer. – Yup.
We actually got some help from the manufacturer on that.
Can we say his name?
– He'd prefer not to be... – Oh.
No, I'm just kidding. It's Danny.
Danny, from Century Motors, helped us out on that one.
I didn't-he could be undercover. He could be a D.E.A. agent.
I didn't know. I didn't want to say his name.
But Danny's always really, really willing to help out, super-smart.
And your best friend, right?
– I believe so, yes. – Christmas cards? Alright.
but back to this
We actually did find out what the problem was with Jim's motor.
He responded back and let us know that it was the voltage.
So he indeed have 115 voltage. So he had to switch the motor to 115 voltage.
There's a little switch on the back that you change.
– Like a switch, or usually a jumper switch, or a knob. – A little dial, yes.
It all depends on which motor you get.
Luckily it was a pretty easy switch.
He didn't run it for too long so he didn't have to
get a brand new capacitor or something like that.
But, if you have any questions like this --
it really helped out that Jim was able to provide us the video.
So if you have any questions, you can always email us what you're motor's sounding like.
Usually it's bearings or something like this going wrong.
Or, you can give us a call at 877-372-6038.
And we can just talk it out.
Yes, we'd love to.
– Just talk it out. Just talk it out. – Love talking motors. All day every day.
Yes. Motors, V-8's, whatever.
But thank you for joining us.
And thank you Jim for the question and the video.
– Bye. – Bye.
Andrew Ridgeley. Bye.