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It is a vacuum. It should be picking up fairly well. That is what is was made to do and be sold as. If it is not, then check your filter.
I have a DE filter. I backwashed it and put more material back in and then the vacuum is working much better and very obvious.
I also have found that the recirculate setting is much better for vacumming if you have a return line type of vacuum. The flow is much faster and therefore the suction much faster.
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∙ 12y agoWithout going to the trouble of using a flow meter test which will normally read some where between 222 l/pm or 13320 l/pH that is 58.65 g/pm or 3518.7 g/pH at its weakest to 110 l/pm or 6600 l/pH that is 29.5 g/pm or 1743.5 g/pH
A pretty good indicator would be that with the pump going you cant or have a lot of difficulty removing the vacuum plate over the top of the leaf basket. remember the suction can be quite strong at that intake so don't let your hand get caught by it.
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∙ 15y agoUnplug it from the timing mechanism and plug it directly into a power lead If the pump starts up it you may have a problem with the Automatic switching equipment if it doesn't then it either doesn't work or there is a problem in the plug or lead coming from the plug to the motor.
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∙ 13y agoThe one way you colud tell if the pool pump is not working propley is by checking if the pool is getting air inside or idf theres a hole in the pool or in the pool pump.
If your pressure on your filter is low then check to see if your basket has crack and letting debris get past. This will clog the impeller and slow down the water flow. If you have good return in the pool then you are getting a good return through your pump. If you can see that the pump basket area (trap) is full of water or in this case full prime than you are OK. If you have half or 1/4 full in this area then the impeller or you have air coming into the pump. If your pressure gauge is high try to backwash or clean your filter and see if this didn't help the flow.
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∙ 11y agoIf its shooting out water and sucking in water ten it is working properly.
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