I have a pentair master temp 300 pool heater that is 6 years old.
Pentair water temperature sensor problems.
To test this the hi temp sensors are on the heat exchanger two twin sensors on the left of the exchange when looking at the front.
The original black water sensor was causing the easy touch intellitouch water temp displays read 170 200 degrees.
Preventing my heater from kicking on and the spa from heating up.
I have to manually start stop the heater every time.
Diagnose the problem and rectify accordingly.
No power fuse is open no ac power or issues with wiring.
Cold water light red water is below 52 degrees f.
Now the display s.
No code is present.
Only modification as mentioned by others is to enlarge the sensor hole in the main filter pipe to 3 8 diameter.
Either the water temperature sensor or the pentair intellitouch i5s system is giving me bad temperature readings.
Keep your pool a cool comfortable temperature with the correct sensor.
My pool temperature was reading 167 degrees.
You may need to erase the eeprom memory and start over.
Pull the red wires and jump them with a paper clip and run.
If the same problem exists do the same with the blower sensor the round sensor mounted to the outer case.
Pentair temperature sensor replacement.
In the beginning the temperature reading on the remote was 50 75 degrees hotter than the water actually was.
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I bought this new sensor and it installed in 10 minutes.
I have replaced the stack sensor thinking that it was the problem.
Downside to that is that you would need to rebuild the system again labels time date schedules etc.
Pentair ic40 problems come in the above nature and can be solved through the solution provided.
When temp sensors fail they usually report temps off in excess of 100 degrees.
Pentair temperature sensor replacement.
If you can t save the adjusted temp setting that would suggest a problem with the controller.