The Polaris Vac-Sweep 280 is a pool cleaner specifically designed To cleanse the walls and the backside of any in-ground pool. The 280 operates on its own and typically requires no supervision. On the other hand, as with any automatic pool-cleaning development, the 280 does wish periodic adjustments and cleaning. Determining which adjustments to dash off depends on what the pool cleaner is, or is not, doing. Happily, manufacture the decisive adjustments is quite lucid.
Instructions
Unit Hangs Up on Steps or Other Obstacles for More Than Three Minutes
1. The in-line filter is located within a plastic housing just behind the quick-disconnect fitting on the end of the cleaner's feed hose. Twist both halves of the housing in a counterclockwise direction until the housing separates to access the filter.6. Ensure that each hose connection is tight, as a loose connection will result in a loss of pressure. Count the complete cipher of times the trundle makes one plentiful revolution within one minute. The trundle should revolve between 28 and 32 times. Whether the complete quantity is less than 28, probation the in-line filter, the skimmer and the pump Hamper for debris. Arrange that Everyone hose connexion is tight, as a loose connexion Testament arrangement in a loss of coercion. Provided the complete figure of revolutions is bounteous than 32, transform the low restrictor disk with the cerise disk. The restrictor disk is located between the pool's bathe send path at the becoming last of the cleaner's refreshment hose. Twist the becoming in a counterclockwise method until it disconnects from the saturate repay edge, then moderate the despondent disk with the chestnut disk.
2. Arrange that the back-up valve is functioning properly. The back-up valve is the miniature canister located in the Centre of the cleaner's nourishment string. Lift the back-up valve outside of the water, then turn the pool cleaner on and observe the cleaner's jet. Water should exit the jet, and then the jet should turn off. If no water exits the jet, or if the jet does not turn off, the back-up valve must be replaced.
3. Adjust the thrust jet at the back of the pool cleaner. The trust jet determines the direction the pool cleaner will travel. Rotating the jet upward and to the right will push the cleaner down and to the right. Rotating the jet downward and to the right will push the cleaner up and to the right. Positioning the jet upward and to the left will push the cleaner down and to the left. Rotating the jet downward and to the left will push the cleaner up and to the left.
4. Remove any unnecessary pool accessories that the cleaner is getting caught up on.
Unit Operates Sluggishly
5. Check the in-line filter for debris. Probation the Correct spin revolutions per minute, or "RPMs." Application a lot of masking tape to one contour of the coerce revolve. The tape Testament constitute it easier to count the quantity of RPMs. Turn the pump on and clout the cleaner underneath the irrigate.
7. Check the skimmer basket, the pump basket and the pool filter for debris.
8. Check the proper wheel revolutions per minute, or "RPMs," as described in Step 1 of Section 1.
Unit Travels the Pool Too Quickly, or Does Not Contact the Bottom of the Pool
9. Ensure that the blue restrictor disk is installed between the pool's water return line and the fitting persist of the cleaner's feed hose. If the blue restrictor disk is in place, replace the blue disk with the red disk. Twist the fitting in a counterclockwise direction until it disconnects from the water return line, then replace the blue disk with the red disk.
10. Adjust the pressure relief valve to diminish the cleaner's thrust. The pressure relief valve is located along the length of the cleaner's feed hose. Twist the two halves of the valve in a counterclockwise direction to reduce the thrust.
11. Ensure that the back-up valve is functioning properly. The back-up valve is a small canister located in the middle of the cleaner's feed line. Lift the back-up valve out of the water, then turn the pool cleaner on and observe the cleaner's jet. Water should exit the jet, and then the jet should turn off. If no water exits the jet, or if the jet does not turn off, the back-up valve must be replaced.
