Hey pool owners. If you have a single or dual speed pump motor
and you're looking for a way to save money on your electric bill,
then switching to a variable speed motor might be an option for you.
In this video, we'll cover the steps
of installing a Century VGreen 165 variable speed motor. Let's take a look.
All right, what we have here is a single speed Hayward Super 2 pump.
As you could probably hear, it's a little loud which is normal for a single speed pump.
Once we get the VGreen on there, you should notice it's much quieter,
but let's go ahead and get the installation started.
We're going to loosen up the bolts here with a 9/16 socket.
We're going to slide the motor back.
We're going to start disconnecting some of the wires.
We'll just start with this external like bonding wire.
Just loosen this up a little bit.
Then, we'll loosen these two nuts up and take the cap off.
Slide the cap off.
Now, we're going to remove the lines going into the motor.
We have the ground over here and then the two hot lines.
We're going to go ahead and discharge the capacitor.
All you have to do is just take a screwdriver and put it across the two terminals.
Yes, it should be good to go.
I'm going to start to disassemble this and take some of the parts off,
so we have to reuse them on the new motor. We're going to start with the diffuser.
Let's just pop right off, put this to the side, take the lead ring.
The next step will be to remove the impeller, but before you do that,
you got to stabilize the shaft. Otherwise, it's going to keep spinning.
We're gonna use a 7/16 wrench, slide it in here behind the protector
and we're going to stabilize. Basically, just turn the impeller and locks in place
like that. Then, we'll spin the impeller off counterclockwise.
The seal plate will just pop right off.
No critters running around, so that's good.
We're going to go ahead and take the bolts out here to get the motor plate.
Again we're using a 9/16 socket.
We got the bolts out. We're just going to take the motor plate off, and it's that simple.
We got the two motors side by side. Obviously, this is the old one.
This is the new, the VGreen, it's the 1.65.
You could see the interface here. The 2.7 has the digital interface.
All the VGreen motors are totally enclosed and fan cooled.
It should last longer than the old single speed.
At this point, we're going to start to put on some of the old parts back on the new motor
minus the shaft seal. You want to make sure you replace your shaft seal.
Otherwise, if you try and reuse the old one-- first of all, it can void the warranty,
and it could let water down the shaft and ruin the motor.
You want to make sure to place that shaft seal.
I slid the motor mounting plate on, and on the Hayward super 2,
there is a top and a bottom of this plate. It'll sty top on the reverse side,
so you know it's the top.
Next part is going to be the seal plate. You want to just visually inspect the seal plate,
make sure there's no cracks. If so, you want to replace it.
First thing you want to do is pop out this old part of the shaft seal.
You should take a flathead and just pop it out from the back.
This one was glued in there, so I have to get this out.
Just make sure you clear out anything that's still in there.
We got our cleaned out seal plate.
We're going to take the white ceramic part of the two-piece shaft seal, put it in here.
You don't want to touch the face of the ceramic. We're going to use a cloth to push it in.
There you go, and make sure the white ceramic is facing out.
Next step is going to be putting the seal plate back over the motor mounting plate.
You can go ahead and remove this shaft protector and discard it. You don't need it.
Again, there's a top and bottom to this seal plate.
The grooves are going to be at the bottom to match up with the motor mounting plate.
In the next steps, we're going to be putting the impeller back onto the shaft.
You'll notice that the old spring portion of the shaft seal is still in the old impeller.
You have got to remove that.
This metal part here, this little sleeve, is actually part of the old shaft seal,
so this has to be removed. That's not part of the impeller,
but you can just take a flathead and work that off and this little rubber piece.
We got the new spring portion of shaft. We're going to put that on the shaft of the impeller.
You'll notice that there's a shiny side and a dull side to this spring portion.
The shiny side is always going to meet up with the smooth ceramic.
I'll put this on the impeller facing out, so that it'll be able to touch the white ceramic.
You see the shiny side is out. We're going to put that on here.
Before we do, we're going to stabilize the shaft of the motor.
If you notice, the back of the VGreen
is a little different from the traditional single speed.
You have to use a 5/16 Allen wrench in there to stabilize the shaft.
We'll stick that in there,
and then, spend the spinning shaft until you can, until it is locked up,
and at that point, we can thread the impeller back on.
It just has to be hand tight. You don't need to really crank it on there.
It just needs to be snugged like when you're installing an oil filter on your car.
Just snug enough. You don't have to crank it on.
We're going to slide the impeller ring back over the impeller.
The wider side is going to be out towards a strainer.
It actually tells you on this impeller ring out towards the strainer.
The next piece will be the diffuser. You can see the old diffuser ring still on there.
We're going to discard that. We're going to put a new one on.
You'll see here, it says "top," so that's going to obviously go at the top of the seal plate.
We're going to put the new diffuser gasket on there.
We're just going to put a little bit of silicone lubricant on it,
and it doesn't need to be much. Just a little pea-sized drop just enough to make it shiny.
The VGreen motor will come with these two plugs installed in the back.
The one on the right here is for the high voltage
which is going to be your power coming into it. The one on the left is for an auxiliary line.
We're going to use it to go to the VLink, but if you had automation, you'd use that.
If you're not using a VLink or automation, you would just leave this one in.
If it's loose, you want to make sure it's tight, so water doesn't get in there.
We're going to go ahead and remove the high-voltage one and put on our elbow.
We're going to bring the three wires back into the new motor.
You have your two hot and your ground.
We're going to feed those through the conduit elbow.
Your ground's going to go over here. I see the ground symbol underneath that.
Let's screw here.
There's your ground. It gave you two hot lines. One will go to L1, the other one to L2.
We're going to take the bonding wire, connect it there to the lug.
We're going to replace the housing gasket. We still got the pump open.
We'll just pull the old one out. Put a little silicone lubricant on the new one.
I'll just pop it back into the groove.
At this point, I've got the housing gasket in,
and we can push the motor assembly back into the pump body.
Now, we're going to get our six bolts and put those back in.
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That's the last seal we're going to replace
Might as well do it over and place all the other ones as the pump lid or ring.
Here again, just put a little bit of lubricant on this one.
Flip up the terminal cover back on there. Tighten the screw.
That covers the steps on how to install a VGreen 165 motor.
Check out the links in the description to see our videos on programming the VGreen 165
along with how to pair your new motor with a VLink wireless interface.
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