By messed up I meant my foray into this forum! I didn't use it to my best advantage and I annoyed you, so that's not cool. Secondly, if the pumps are identical, I spent about $100 too much. That's not small change. Just FYI, I AGAIN called Hayward this morning (because I'm obsessed). Get this, they insist 100% that these two pumps are not identical. Whoever told me this is flat wrong, they said. The EE uses less power, period. I guess I could just choose to believe, even just to sleep better tonight than last, lol. Thanks again, I'm still just starting out and trying to be perfect is my curse.