Running My Pool/spa/features With Inteliflo Vf

[Florida Badger]

Hi All,

I'm building an 11K pool with spa and (2) 36" sheer decent waterfalls. Water features are 18" above the water line. I'll have a Pentair Inteliflo VF pump with Easy Touch automation. My contractor says all is good except that I won't be able to run the spa and water features at the same time. Why would that be? If I have 3 actuators shouldn't I be able to run the pool, spa, and the features at the same time?

Thanks,

Badger

[HeneryNadela25]

I dont have that much knowledge about it, but hope so after keeping your question here you will surely get answer to your question.

[Pool Clown]

Think about it. When you say "run the spa" i'm assuming that you mean heat it as well as circulating it, yes? If so, there would be no way to circulate both pool and spa without heating both, unless you are ok with the pool being the same temp as the spa (100 degrees +) That would be very inefficient as well as time consuming. Now you could run both the pool and sheer decent off the same pump, but not the spa and sheer decent (it would drain the spa if decent water returned to pool) unless the sheer decent flowed into in the spa. Now having said all that, typical circulation draws water from the pool and returns to pool and to the spa this would heat both bodies to the comfortable pool temp. and if you wanted to run a sheer decent, you could valve off a portion of return water to run that to either pool or spa.