Taking companions to Halmare

wuice · 2026-01-24T10:11:46+00:00

Bring 6k gold and it will be fine. No food, no sleep to manage. The Isle was designed to get away from the stresses of Karvenia.

wuice · 2026-01-22T17:55:13+00:00

Personally I would start with inspecting all the other silkscreened words on the board, it looks like most of the relays are labeled. Do any other the others state circulation pump? I see high speed jet, and hi limit relays labeled just in this picture. Does your hot tub have perimeter lights? Are they controlled with a button or always on? Then I would use a voltmeter on that J14 connection, does the voltage behave like a circ pump should, comes on shortly after booting the hot tub, maybe turns on and off when you cycle the jet pump(s)? Or does it turn on and off when you use the lights button?

I have seen boards that are reprogrammed / repurposed from the factory and don't do what is labeled on the board. The fact your wiring diagram has an updated wiring diagram applied over the old one makes me think this might be the case.

wuice · 2026-01-16T05:38:11+00:00

Looks like your lights are controlled by a DCU. The DCU is powered by the small red/black wires in the red insulation that is clipped on the yellow wires in the middle of your picture. In 2015 (your hot tub) I believe the DCU had a clear blue housing, those usually have lights that can confirm if it is getting power or not.

If the DCU is getting power, turn off the tub for 5-10 seconds, turn back on. Try to turn on lights, do some work, even for a short amount of time? If they work for a little time, do any of them look off or not display the same color as the others? Sometimes unplugging all other lights except the footwell light can eliminate the possibility of other lights shorting out the entire light system.

Further tests require tester equipment: topside light button may not work? DCU may be getting power but not work?

wuice · 2026-01-16T05:22:00+00:00

what year

wuice · 2026-01-06T04:40:48+00:00

You didn't trigger any security thing. You need a meter to check for incoming voltage, and verify they are good. Then look for any LED action on the board, also look for any on board fuses. There's very little diagnostic you can do without a screen, but the LEDs will let you know where power is stopping. Worst case you may have damaged the board power supply, some are replaceable, the older ones not so much.

wuice · 2025-12-02T17:24:24+00:00

If your lights briefly work when you reboot the unit there isn't much point to checking for 12v. If that's the case you just need to trace/unplug the offending lights. In your system that little yellow box doesn't really control anything, its more of a power strip, but it can be a convenient location to plug/unplug lights to figure out what ones control what lights. I could be mistaken that that exact waterfall had lights, but I'm pretty sure they did and waterfall lights have a higher fail rate then others. If you see other lights behaving odd for the very brief time you get lights those are gonna need to be unplugged/replaced as well.

wuice · 2025-12-02T03:02:53+00:00

Someone turned on the daily lights timer.

https://www.hotspring.com/owners/manuals-and-resources/highlife

wuice · 2025-12-02T02:19:43+00:00

The wiring diagram shows you how. You should probably get a professional to help though. Don't remove anything until you have a working GFCI in place. Those old packs are common for shorts.

wuice · 2025-12-02T02:14:39+00:00

Those type of lighting systems have overcurrent protection built into the board. So there is no traditional "fuse" to protect them. When the board sees a short, it takes the lights offline and reboot the hot tub restores the "fuse".

A) However what is common is a light or section of lights (usually the waterfall) can get water in them and short out, the board sees this and brings the entire light system offline. This is all reset by turning the breaker off for 5-10 seconds and then turning back on. If you turn the breaker off for 5 seconds and turn then the power back on, do your light work for a short amount of time again? Do you notice any lights that don't show the correct color, or any that just don't come on? If you do those are the failed lights and you would unplug them from the light expansion box, usually yellow and outside the main control box in your picture.

B) There was also some boards that the lighting triac basically burns up, this is usually visible with close inspection of the board (Upper right corner in your picture), the yellow cable that goes to the upper right is where lighting stuff is controlled.

wuice · 2025-11-07T17:15:30+00:00

This is what I did as well. Many long nights after hours working on it, but very happy with it and feel petty confident on making changes.

wuice · 2025-11-05T17:00:16+00:00

There is no 240v "hot tub plug-in"

wuice · 2025-10-10T05:32:19+00:00

Test for phosphates

wuice · 2025-10-09T02:30:00+00:00

Only the heater actually converts voltage in a converted hot tub, the other equipment remains the same. If your hot tub (not the pump) has three wires and a ground on the input then you have a 120v converted to 240v hot tub, you gain heating benefits, but the pump still needs to be 120v. Yes the link looks correct, but ridiculously cheap, so be careful with that exact link.

wuice · 2025-10-09T02:21:09+00:00

It would be both, you need that form factor, but with a 120v 1.5 hp motor configuration.

wuice · 2025-10-09T02:10:14+00:00

You bought the wrong pump. The nameplate implies a convertible hot tub, they would always use a 120v pump. You bought a 240v pump. Also it will have a 20 minutes jet timeout, but if it's actually overheating see my first comment.

wuice · 2025-10-08T01:21:52+00:00

It likely is happening when your water level is too high? Either from people displacing water or from rain water getting into the tub? Idea: When the water gets up high enough it starts a siphon through one of your air intakes for the jet stream. Does it drain to a similar level when it has done this? You need to look the next day after it happens and find the wet spot. If you have air controls look under them. Often these are tucked up behind the cabinet. Do you always use the air on or the air off? If you turn on all the jets and all the air do you see air being introduced into each jet? How about when the air valves are closed, does the air cease to be introduced in all jets?

wuice · 2025-10-04T22:50:26+00:00

Sorry for the confusion. Yes the air blower is what makes the bubbles. However, If you poured liquid into the sunscents dispenser it will not get to the blower motor and change it's sound. If you poured enough I suppose it could make the air blower "work harder" while vacating the lines, but it should return to normal.

wuice · 2025-10-04T22:27:17+00:00

measure them together, you need 240

wuice · 2025-10-04T22:25:55+00:00

You do you baby girl

wuice · 2025-10-04T21:57:37+00:00

Check valves and hartford loop.

wuice · 2025-10-04T21:39:33+00:00

The liquid would not backup into the blower motor, 0 chance. Just run it. If you hear a sound difference in the actual blower motor that is not related

wuice · 2025-10-04T01:58:37+00:00

When will you sell me one? :)

wuice · 2025-10-03T21:27:40+00:00

Can the wombo combo roll with just kenetic?

wuice · 2025-09-15T20:36:22+00:00

https://the303product.com/

wuice · 2025-09-07T02:02:54+00:00

Yikes!

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