The most common multiport valves have a locking lever handle that can be turned to any one of seven settings: filter, waste, winter, closed, backwash, recirculate and rinse. By changing the position of the lever, you can route the water coming from the pump around or through your filter in different ways.
Secondly, how do you measure a multiport valve?
Subsequently, how do you activate a multiport valve?
What does recirculate on a pool pump do?
Reviewing Recirculation
The recirculate setting on a swimming pool filter is actually used to bypass the filter mechanism. Recirculate allows the water to flow out of the pool and back into it again without running through the sand or diatomaceous earth in the filtration system.
What are the valves on my pool pump?
Pool valves control the direction of water flow, not just in and out of the pool, but in and out of your pool equipment as well. For example, you want the pool water to enter the filter, and then be expelled in the right direction to continue its path through the plumbing and back to the pool.
Where is the model number on a Hayward multiport valve?
The easiest way to identify your multiport valve is to find a manufacturers part code, this is normally found along the front face of the multiport valve. Once you have identified this number we can then use it and match it up to a valve that suits your pools filtration system.
How do you replace the spider gasket on a Hayward Vari Flo valve?
Which way do you turn the valve on a pool filter?
What is rinse on multiport valve?
The ‘Rinse’ setting should be used after backwashing and again run just for a minute or two. On this setting the water is flowing through the filter in the normal direction but once again is being sent to the waste pipe rather than being returned to the pool.
How does a Hayward pool valve work?
What are the positions on a pool filter?
During normal filtration, on the “Filter” setting, water moves through the filter in one direction – top to bottom for sand filters, and bottom to top for DE filters. When the MPV handle is moved 180° to the “Backwash” position, water flow is reversed as it enters and exits the filter tank.