Pool Pump Brand/Sizing Help

[waste]

Scott, the most imortant thing is to size the pump to the filter. Your 1.5 hp pump may have been 'over driving' your filter. A bigger filter is fine, but having a pump too big for your filter is an invitation for problems.
Not to 'dis' Hayward, but we've had problems the past couple of years with pumps failing way prematurely on the Northstar, if it were my pool I'd go with a Superpump. If pipe size is a problem, reducers are easy to install.
Hope this at least a little help.

[samendolaro]

I oversized the filter 2 years ago... so I am in good shape there (was too lazy to clean it all the time so I figured a bigger filter=less time between cleaninges)

So SuperPump or Superpump II ?


Looked at the Specs and the Super II is equivelent in Flow to the Super Pump 1.5... ( If not a bit better pressure) So I will give that a try...

[waste]

Scott, Super or Super II, whichever will allow you an easier time to do the changeout (though we switched to Northstars 4 years ago, we still have a very large number of Superpumps (& II's) on pools that haven't shown the Northstar's propensity for premature failure).