We have a Magiline pool which a couple of years ago was modified to
Modified To?
Oops posted before I finished should read as follows:
Our Magiline piscine was modified to use Hydrochlorite de Sodium which worked perfectly well for at least the last two years. However the pool has developed an electrical fault which causes the house electrics to trip every time its switched on. Regretably the engineer from the small company that maintained this system has died and the company only now sells supplies. Magiline will not help as the pool has been modifiedl We are in 64 near St Palais and desperately need to find someone who knows what he/she is doing to help us solve this problem.
Curious, sodium hypochlorite is mainly what pools use apart from a few left field non chlorine systems. Often Magiline use a salt chlorinator but that produces sodium hypochlorite.
So it sounds like your pump is shorting out so probably the start run capacitor which is a very low cost part and an easy fix for any electrician or either contact a bobin rewinding service who could carry out the work for you.
I wont comment on Magiline as I have nothing good to say about the company. If it is a failed motor winding then there are replacement pumps available.
Thanks for your reply. Are you saying that any pool company should be able to sort out the problem. Getting someone to come here is proving to be very difficult!
Any electrician. We don’t use a specialist pool company to do any of our pool electrical repairs, just our friendly electrician - for example he replaced the bearings in our pump, he swapped our pump for his while he did it.
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As Sue said, any competent electrician would easily handle it, most common pump failure is the start run capacitor and at around €15-20 plus fitting. Same thing in a pool shop €40-45 if they even stock them, others make a song and dance about it and charge more still.
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If someone does replace the start/run capacitor, make sure that the one they install is ‘S2’ safety rated. This means that if it fails, it will fail open-circuit and is protected against shock and fire hazard. I know someone who had one replaced with a cheaper ‘S0’ rated capacitor on a motor and several years later it failed, caught fire and did lots of damage.
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