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Diagnostics |
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Spa
Repair Diagnostics-Topside |
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Topside Control
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Topside failure is most
often obvious. One or more buttons when you press
them do not respond BUT the others do and the spa
operates fine. If that is your problem OR the actual
skin of the topside or integrity of the topside is
visually damaged, its time for a new topside. All
topsides are fairly easy to install. The cord has
some type of disconnect. So
with power off you snap out old and snap in new. |
The REAL COMPLICATION is
different manfacturers and even different
generations have the topside operate differently in
its basic form. Example: production of the Balboa
systems allow you to unplug the topside and power up
the spa. It WILL operate without a topside. Its a
quick way to see if the topside is the problem. But
many/most current productions the topside must be
connected for the spa to operate at all. On at least
one design, the "brain" of the spa is in the
topside. Disconnect the topside and you have
nothing. This is in contrast with the older Balboa
systems where the topside is simply a slave. |
Topside failure is
usually obvious from the condition of the topside.
If ANY water gets into the workings of the topside
it will fail. Some noted if the topside was bone dry
the spa was fine but water splashing the spa shut
down. Replaced the topside and solved the problem. |
Unless the
topside showed signs of wear over time and now
completely dead the problem is not
commonly caused by topside failure. |
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