i have a new jandy lite 2 heater. it has the option to use it's own internal timer to control a pump (but you need to add their relay apparently, which is special order and i don't have) or you can use an external timer to to control it pump and not use the internal timer. as my electrician is going to provide a nice neat timerl unit to control everything anyway, that's why i didn't bother with getting the jandy relay as i still would have likely needed a separate timer system for my swg i'm installing.

here's my question or questions.

i read the heater manual and it does talk about how you can bypass the in heater timer and program the heater to slave i guess basically to an external timer..but it doesn't say whether that means i should still hook up the pump via the heater..or hook it up directly to my external timer.

at this point, my belief is that the pump would then be hooked up separately as the external control unit will be controller for all 3 of the items. i don't in any way want the pump slaved to the heater.

right or wrong, a good electrician should be able to figure out how to hook it up best, right? (i hope) and yes, i do have a good electrician..the best in town (master grade electrician consults..journeyman or the master grade guy himself do the work) and that's why i pay him 150 per hour to do more electrical work