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Pool pump/salt chlorine generator timer wiring.

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I'm trying to install a new wifi pool timer for the pool pump and chlorine generator. The pump is 240v and the generator is 120. I can't figure out the wiring for this configuration. I'll attach pictures of the timer and the wiring diagram supplied with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
#6 ·
What by product. It's simply converting salt water to chlorine through electrolysis. There is no waste and no by product produced in the process.

Some areas do regulate large discharges of pool water, but it's usually not specifically due to the salt content. The salinity needed for chlorine generation is many times less than what ocean water contains. Most salt systems require less than 5000 ppm where seawater is 35000 ppm or more.
 
#4 ·
You can't run a 240V load and 120V load together with that timer. You would need a neutral ran to the timer and you can't run a neutral separate from it's hot wire. Most salt generators can run off of 120V or 240V. Check yours and see if can run on either voltage.
If the generator can't run on 240V, you may be able to just send the 120V to it as hot all the time. Most will not run unless the pump is running. So you may be able to just let the pump control when the generator runs.
 
#5 · (Edited)
Thinking about this some more. I don't think the salt G. uses much power. You could run 4- #12 wires (H-H-N-G), from the 2-pole breaker, to the timer and come off one of the 240V lines for the generator and tie the neutral straight through to the SG. Sort of like a MWBC.

You would have to "pigtail" some of the wires, meaning join the needed wires, along with a short jumper(s) wire to reach the terminals. It would go like this.

The 2 hot wires, call them L1 and L2
Tie L1 to a jumper long enough to reach N/O1, and a jumper long enough to reach one of the timer terminals
[so L1 goes to timer terminal and N/O1]
Tie L2 to a jumper long enough to reach N/O2, and a jumper long enough to reach other timer terminal
[So L2 goes to timer and N/O2]

Wires to load (pump & SG), call them load 1 and load 2
You will need 2 load wires to the pump
You will need 1 load wire to the SG, along with a neutral
Use one of the wires as load 1 to the pump, use another wire (black) for the SG, and tie them to a jumper to reach the common 1
[so load 1 (pump) ties to wire from SG, and both go to common 1]
the other wire (Load 2) to the pump just connects to common 2

Tie the neutral from the panel to the neutral going to the SG

Both circuits will need ground wires, they all tie in with the ground ran from the panel.

Make sure you set the dip switch/voltage selector to 240V. The directions are in your timer but you didn't show the full thing.

Maybe this is clear as mud!