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Well i finally took the panel out of my old spa and a wire was broken off so I replaced it and now the spa heats and the circulate pump works. In the process however I broke this little hose off flush with the 90 degree elbow below the panel as seen with the red electrical tape. It goes from the 90 degree elbow to the jet pump 90 degree elbow. It is the small hose obviously. Can someone tell me what that pipe is used for and if I could get away with just plugging the hole with a bolt rather than draining the spa drilling out the nipple and gluing a new nipple in? Well I have decided to fix it right and drain the tub tonight.

I hooked the pump up directly to 120 volts without it hooked to the hot tub at all and it ran fine. I was thinking of doing the heater also to make sure it ran. When I hooked it back up to the hot tub electrically neither the heater or circ pump did anything however the light and jet pump does run.

Ok so I took out the pump and it seems to run fine. I hooked it back up with no water and it still didn't work. I guess it probably isn't the reset switch either since both have to be hooked up to run the pump and light. What else could it be the thermostat?

Thanks I will give that a shot.

I am not sure what year it is because it was given to me second hand. It does have the two reset buttons and I have pressed them. I thought it looked like the heater one needed reset but it didn't do anything. I guess I can take the circ pump out and hook it up to a power source to see if it runs. If the circ pump is not working then it will not heat. What year is it? Does it have the two red reset buttons on the side of the black control box? Have you tried to reset them? How old is the circ pump?....it may just be dead.

So I have an older spa and I went to use it the other night and it was cold. The circulating pump is no longer running and my heater isn't warm so it obviously isn't working. The lamp light and jets still work. Has anyone experienced this and if so what part was the problem?

Well I picked up an old 110v Hot Springs Spa. It has one filter and I was wondering how I could tell how old it is. I got it hooked up and heating right now. It also looks like the main pump for the jets leaks right above the pump. I am not sure what screws into the side holes in the filter compartment and if there is supposed to be something screwed into the bottom drain hole? Any info would be appreciated.

I had the Costco Sunpeak. When it received it, it all looked good but after I got it into my backyard and looked at it more I noticed they had either drilled the jet hole in the wrong place or it just broke and they did a very poor patch job. However, they were willing to replace the tub but I didn't want to get it out of my backyard (it was a pain in the ass). So they agreed they would warranty the shell for life in that area. When I went to change the water I found out that the filter was all chewed up and broke, as well as the piping below the filter was broken. It looked like they hadn't used enough glue when gluing together the pipe. It this point I decided to take down my fence again and return the spa. Costco arranged for pickup and it was hauled off a couple of weeks later. Also, the electricity usage seemed fairly consistent to others at around 350kwh/month. Which here ran me $110-150/month because it put me into a $.33 and $.31/kwh rate for PG&E.

Thanks for the info TinyBubbles I am going to look at some other smaller spas.

1) I have heard I can return the Spa directly to my local Costco or sometimes I they will arrange for it to be picked up. 2) My filter was already installed in the spa when I got it, I visually inspected it but did not take the whole assembly apart as it was already installed. There was also a little bit of water in the spa which I assumed was from them testing it. 3) I didn't have a good estimate of the Kilowatt usage per month because the no spa company would give me a kilowatt usage number and I never went to this site looking at the kilowatt usage of a spa. All anyone would tell me is that the spa would run $40 to $60 maximum but of course now I know they use the base rates for their estimates. If they would have given me an estimate of how much electricity it would use I could have estimated the cost myself. Also, my parents have Hot Springs Classic and their bill only went up $40 so I figured that was about standard but they are also zoned Agricultural so they get a higher kilowatt baseline. 4) I have talked to there customer support staff over some other issues and they were helpful, and they have already offered to replace the spa over another issue but I think I will just return it at this point. Your post is hardly surprising; there have been many threads from owners of spas like Infinity and Hydrospa professing of high KW usage so you are not alone. Those spas are simply not insualted well. Do a search on this site and you can get some info on how owners better insulate these type spas. Your post doesn't surprise me at all! The usage he post at 350 killowatts is normal and I noticed that Hotspringe won't ever give that info in real world numbers. I have a few questions that seem kinda odd seeing you purchased the spa through Costco. 1) Why would you wonder how to return the spa as the proceedure was clearly laid out when you puchased it as well in the delivery info you signed. 2) Why didn't you inspect the spa and find the broken filter parts and call Customer service when you set it up? Did someone else set it up for you? I ask this as the filters don't come pre installed but seperate in wrap as they are new with the spa to be installed when the spa is set up. 3) Why would the 350 kwh put you in a higher level of cost be the spas fault? It uses less then the Sundance spa listed in this forum so what where you expecting to use in killowats per month? 4) I assume you called customer service and asked there support staff what was going on? What did they say?

I came to my electricity usage by comparing a few months of bills and watching my meter during filtrations and heating cycles. I have recently unplugged and drained the spa and am now trying to determine how I want to return it. Also after looking at the filter compartment the filter is split and crushed on the bottom with a few other loose parts which I assume broke off of something. Your post is hardly surprising; there have been many threads from owners of spas like Infinity and Hydrospa professing of high KW usage so you are not alone. Those spas are simply not insualted well. Do a search on this site and you can get some info on how owners better insulate these type spas. Your post doesn't surprise me at all! The usage he post at 350 killowatts is normal and I noticed that Hotspringe won't ever give that info in real world numbers.

I bought the Infinity Sun Peak Spa from Costco and I use around 350 kwh a month with it which is way to much for me. It puts me into a $.36 khw bracket which is more than I want to pay oh well I guess. I was just wondering what the other more insulated spas (hot springs etc) would run in kwh usage per month or maybe a smaller 3 person spa? Any help would be appreciated.

I have it on EC mode and the pumps only runs for 2 hrs twice a day. I have the temperature set at 101 degrees and the weather temperature probably never got below 50F and not above 70F. I am not to sure on what I want to do with the spa yet. I was going to try and do some insulating but nothing that can't be put back to its original state just in case I want to return it. I was told in a previous thread that 300-350kwh per month seemed to be a normal amount is that your experience with your tub? My parents have an old Hot Springs Classic and I don't think it used nearly as much electricity but of course the get a larger amount of kwh per month for less than me.

Sorry but this hard for me to believe, since I live in the midwest and bought a 9year old tub and as of to date we haven't noticed an increase in our bill any where near your's ours has been around $15.00 more than last year but there has been increses as well. maybe it's like the old saying some things are not built like the older ones who knows ? I am guessing that your electric bill in the midwest isn't $.36/kwh and more like $.10 max. Here in CA electricity seems to be more than 3 times other areas therefore if you have a $30 bill I would have a $90 bill.

I have had this tub for a couple of months now and it has worked good. It looks like it uses 300-250kwh a month which has raised my bill around $120 since it put me into the 300% category of $.36/kwh. I am in a fairly mild climate in California. This is more than I expected so I have been thinking about trying to add insulation but I havn't gotten to it yet.