Short Part of the post: I have lost the third capacitor on as many HF clearwater pumps. Has anyone else had this problem?

Long part: The pumps that loose the capacitor are the reaction pump, not the drying and filtering pumps. My set-up involves gravity feed to the pump and about 4' outlet pipe to the top of the reaction barrel. However, the outlet pipe does have a 6" static in-line mixer. I don't see any evidence of motor over-heating - just capacitor blow out. Since I have lost so many, I believe it may be my set-up and not the motor though. Any thoughts? Any suggestions on better, more appropriate pumps?

Thanks in advance!

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Turned out to be sporadic voltage from my outlet. Instead of new motor, this last time I bought a GE capacitor and today I rigged it up. I was monitoring it and it got hot too, so I checked the voltage at the plug: 123V, then 20V, 123V, then 20V and so on. The top plug in the receptacle(the one I use for the pump since the bottom has the timer) was bad. Replaced it and now a nice smooth 122.8V and the capacitor stopped getting hot.

Check your outlets too!

NCDiesel

Glad you found the problem, it was on the verge of triggering a new round of attacks on the HF pump.

Yall hold on let me get a beer and some popcorn!!!

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it was on the verge of triggering a new round of attacks on the HF pump.

Now, why would anybody do something like that...?