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Louder would definitely indicate a motor problem developing, but I have a hard time believing that the motor is tripping your breaker. Obviously, the motor is not ground faulted because the breaker does not trip immediately at motor start up. I doubt it is an over-current issue as the SC-25 fuse on the board would blow a lot faster than the 50 amp breaker and you are not repporting blown fuses on the board. I suspect chemical damage that has somewhat damaged your pump seals which have probably affected your motor bearing. If true, check your heater and ozonator for ground fault damage. It will be the heater and/or ozonator probably causing the trip. John John, I don't have a ozonator. Do you have any advice do determine if it is the heater? Thanks for the help. Dan Some folks advocate disconnecting the copper connectors that go to the heater cold pins and re-starting the hot tub. This can work, but I prefer using a high quality megohmmeter. A megohmmeter ensures that you will not damage the electronics while checking the loads for a ground fault. Each reset of the GFCI in the face of a ground fault can result in electronics damage, which may be what you now have if you saw smoke. Seeing smoke is NOT good. John I did a little more trouble shooting and discovered a few more things. I unplugged the motor / pump and after the primer cycle finished the breaker didn't trip. I got to " -- " on the control panel. I plugged the motor back in and this time the motor made a lot of nose but didn't blow the breaker. Does that mean the heater / control board is good? Any advice where to purchase replacement motor / pump ?

Louder would definitely indicate a motor problem developing, but I have a hard time believing that the motor is tripping your breaker. Obviously, the motor is not ground faulted because the breaker does not trip immediately at motor start up. I doubt it is an over-current issue as the SC-25 fuse on the board would blow a lot faster than the 50 amp breaker and you are not repporting blown fuses on the board. I suspect chemical damage that has somewhat damaged your pump seals which have probably affected your motor bearing. If true, check your heater and ozonator for ground fault damage. It will be the heater and/or ozonator probably causing the trip. John John, I don't have a ozonator. Do you have any advice do determine if it is the heater? Thanks for the help. Dan

Does it have an ozonater that comes on during filtering? Have you peeked inside the equipment bay yet? We don't have ozonater. I did see some smoke coming from the equipment panel before the breaker blew. I opened the equipment panel and reset the breaker. After it finished the primer cycle and the pump started it blew the breaker but I didn't see any smoke.

I have a (220V) 3yr old Keys Back Yard Hot Tub. A couple of weeks ago the 50 amp GFI breaker was tripped. I reset the breaker and haven’t had a problem until two days ago. The breaker was blown again; I rest the breaker again, after the primer cycle the motor / pump started and it tripped the breaker again. It did seem to be a lot louder than normal. How can I tell if is the pump or the electric motor? Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

Does anyone have a trick to getting the control panel into program mode. I have four buttons. Jet Light Up arrow

Thanks... I just started a new topic with a little more detail. I will put the exact model on that post.

I have a Keys backyard spa I purchased two years ago from Home Depot. It seems to run constantly so I attempted to put it in economy mode. After randomly pushing the buttons it started flashing eC and 100. At this point it should run twice a day for two hours? (It ran for 3hrs before I just shut it off) Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a trick to hitting the buttons in the right order to get it into economy mode easily? I pushed the jet button along with pushing the down arrow temp button several hundred times before it finally went into EC. Are there replacement control panels for these spa's? It looks like a basic RJ45 connector.

I have a Keys backyard spa I purchased two years ago from Home Depot that I have been battling. It seems to run constantly so I attempted to put it in economy mode. After randomly pushing the buttons it started flashing eC and 100. At this point it should run twice a day for two hours but it ran for 3hrs before I just shut it off. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a trick to the button sequence to get it in economy? I pushed the jet button along with pushing the down arrow temp button several hundred times before it finally went into EC.