Quote Originally Posted by swimdaddy View Post
Quick question: could the booster pump be on the suction side of the main pump?
No, you should not plumb it that way. Two pumps running in parallel on the suction side of the line would "fight" with each other for water. I don't know the specs of that booster pump but it would likely lose the fight with the pool pump. Also, booster pumps are designed to boost the pressure and flow rate of water already moving in them, they are not really designed to initiate flow on their own. There are other PF users way more knowledgeable about pumps and water flow than me so perhaps they can chime in.

Also, the setup as it is depicted is not wrong per se, it's just missing a critical component - a way to isolate the Polaris line when not in use. It's probably ok to use "dirty" water to run the Polaris since any large size debris will just get captured by the Polaris leaf bag. You could hook the booster pump in on the return side (clean side) of the filter but then you'd have lower pressure water to work with and that might not make the Polaris happy.

Simplest fix, in my opinion, is to add an isolation valve just after the PVC T-connector on the vertical leg so that the Polaris port can be shut off when not in use. This should result in slightly higher filter pressure and no more "junk" coming out of the Polaris port when not in use.