I ordered this flow switch to replace one that my husband nicked with the weed eater. Fit was perfect, aligned arrows to water flow, still got NO FLOW error message on panel. Unscrewed and tried several more times and still recieved error message. I went online and found a pool forum where someone had the exact same issue. Turns out some of these flow switches have misprinted directional arrows. The fix was to go point directional arrows on cap the opposite of actual water flow. This did the trick and I didn't recieve the NO FLOW message. So if you are having issues, it may be a manufacturer error or misprint, just try turning the opposite way.

Installed it in preparation for the swimming season, but never got to see it perform.. Our pool heater ended up being replaced.

works as expected so far....hopefully lasts a while, but for the price I wouldn't complain if I had to replace it every couple years or even every year..would be good preventive work if nothing else...shouldn't necessarily wait til something goes bad....highly recommend....

The water in my pool started to look funny the other day and found that my Aqua Rite (Hayward) salt system was displaying no water flow on the panel (Who knows for how long). I tried different things including inspecting the existing water flow switch by removing it from the pipe and also checking that in fact there was water flowing in the system. I found no issues.

I immediately suspected that the water flow switch was bad as it was the original one from 2005 when we installed the pool salt system. I called the pool store here in my city to inquire about price and availability of a new Water Flow switch. The store that I called is not the regular mom and pop store. It is a large corporation and they have stores in most cities here in California and Arizona (Maybe in other states also). They are probably National but anyway. I called the nearest store to my house gave them the name of my salt water panel and description of the part I wanted. The employee that answered the phone appeared not happy that I called and told me that they didn't sell the part. I told him that it was a hayward part (They sell Hayward pool equipment) but no he told me no they couldn't order it.

I Called another of their stores (Same chain) in a neighboring city and found the employee that answered the phone very friendly and told me that yes they could order the part for me and it would cost me $210.00 dollars shipped with a 1 week delivery date. I politely thanked him and hanged up the phone.

That same part that they were trying to sell me for $210.00 was $33.70 here on Amazon + Tax + 1 day shipping for a total of $40.39.

How in the world can these brick and mortar stores survive with charging these ridiculous prices ?

I am very happy with this product. Upon receiving it I installed it on my pool system (1 minute) and after a few seconds the salt system panel started showing water flow again. As easy as that. Highly recommended.

I was unimpressed when this item arrived. It came in a soft envelope...I would have preferred a box given that it is a piece of electrical equipment. It had a piece of cardboard wrapped around the most sensitive part, but a box would have been better. It's a fairly straightforward installation, but I had several problems. It comes with one wrap of Teflon tape. When I screwed it in, water leaked out everywhere. I had to go to the store and buy more Teflon tape to make it a snug fit. Once installed, it didn't work. I tried several resets of the main computer, but no luck. I finally removed the sensor, pulgged the hole, and manually held it closed with the pump running. It worked. So I reinstalled it in the pipe and reenergized the system. It works. Hopefully it will keep working, but I'm nervous since the install went so poorly.