I lately bought a contemporary Hayward DE filter and I'm getting vastly low pressure. I troubleshot EVERYTHING. Help. I backwashed 4-5 times, cleaned the "fingers" 2wice and still no pressure?
I backwashed 4-5 times, cleaned the "fingers" 2wice and still no pressure?
Answers: My first guess is that you need to prime the pump. Open up the top of the reservoir that the water sits within on the pool side of the pump and fill it with dampen. If you try this and still do not get pressure (or more importantly, water going thru the filter and put money on to the pool) then
make sure pipe going to fritter away is closed (in other words that you are not pumping water wherever you tolerate it go when you clean it)
If you still do not procure pressure, remove the top that contains the fingers and fill the part that holds the hose down up about half passageway, just below where the fingers run into the water.
Actually, I do this routinely when I clean the filter because I get tired of having to keep trying to prime the pump merely from the little reservoir. Hope this works for you!
If you try this and it still isn't working, try pumping to waste. You need to verify that the pump is really pumping hose and not just running.
There is a pressure gauge on the filter, if that is to say reading "low" which would be, say less than 10 psi, you would not enjoy a problem, as long as the filter, pump, reservoirs, are filled with wet. If the problem is that your pump is running, and little or no water is going through the filter, then the pressure quantify should read a "high" pressure, like, say, over 20psi. If specifically the case, the filter is dirty, or needs to be "bumped" or have too much DE powder in it. I am confused by your use of the term "backwashed", because you don't do that near a DE filter. It is also a possibility that your pump impeller is broken. That would create no flow at all, but the motor would run.