PowerFlo LX - 1.5HP

Spent a lot of time looking on line for a good pool pump. The reviews were more good than bad and the pump looked solid and well made. The specs were just what i needed. Arrived via Fedex a few days after ordering and was very easy to install. Very well made, solid and worth the money. Worked like a dream and really moved the water way better than my old 1,5hp pump that was throwing a bearing and noisy. Quiet and easy to remove leaf trap to clean. After 10 weeks it just stopped and motor was super hot! Probably had a bearing seize. Called customer service and spoke to technical, Giselle, and was very pleasantly surprised! Has a one year warranty and she emailed me a Fedex call tag to return the pump. Once she received proof later that day the it had been received by Fedex, she had a new pump shipped out same day! Doheny's really do offer peace of mind and easy to reach by phone and very responsive. Highly recommend them!

When my "old reliable" 25 year old Hayward Pool Pump finally died (at the worst possible time) when I was in the process of opening my pool and needed very badly to vacuum the big 18' by 33' oval above ground 19,000 gallon pool. I was in a quandary as to where to obtain a replacement. I saw prices of $350 to $600 in stores in my area and on the Internet - but it wasn't until I decided to check out Amazon.com that I finally saw prices that weren't scaring me away. Needless to say - I was a bit skeptical as to how Amazon could beat everyone else's prices by so much. Another concern to me was: Will this pump from amazon be the proper replacement? To find out - I called Hayward and gave them all of the info from my burned out pump (on the plate on the motor), along with the info on this Hayward pump I found at Amazon - and they told me it would be the correct replacement. Another concern was that the picture shows the discharge going up - but mine was to the side. The folks at Hayward told me that with a little bit of disassembly, I could rotate the discharge to the side to match my application. Here is exactly what I paid - including the 2-day delivery charge from Amazon: Total for This Shipment: $206.25 - and that blew away the lowest price I could find elsewhere be over $125. My first surprise: Though I paid for 2-day delivery - the pump arrived at my door the Next Day!!! My next surprise - it was So EASY to rotate the discharge from up to the side to match my setup. My next surprise - This Pump is So QUIET that you can hardly hear it running!!! I thought "old reliable" was quiet - but this pump is So Much QUIETER!!! Another surprise is how much cooler to the touch the new pump runs - I could not touch the older pump when it was operating as it ran so hot it would burn my hand. That excessive heat is wasted energy and higher operating cost. Though both pumps are rated at 1/2 HP (Plenty Powerful for this application) the older pump was rated at 13 Amp whereas the new pump produces the same 1/2 HP with a rating of 11 Amps - so the newer motor technology produces the same power with a lower current draw - so this will Cost Less to operate. So far - one month and working GREAT! This pump is quitter, runs cooler and has noticeably more power than "old reliable". Some dealers tried to talk me into another brand - but seeing that my first Hayward pump lasted 25 years - I'm not about to switch brands - I'll stay with the #1 selling brand for pool pumps - Hayward. The bottom line - I am absolutely ELATED with my new Hayward pump - and with the Great Amazon Service and the incredible FAST Delivery - you can buy your replacement pool pump with CONFIDENCE from Amazon.com!

Best pump we’ve had so far! This did such a great job compared to the original one we had! I would definitely buy this again if I had to. Flow rate worked so much better!

I'd bought a display pool, with filter and pump, a Hayward Power-Flo LX, at least 7 years old now. The pump was rusty, and died. Hayward isn't making the LX any more, replacing it with the Matrix. So, a replacement LX was particularly inexpensive. I received the product yesterday, loosened the through-bolts to rotate the impeller housing from vertical output to horizontal, tightened them up again, got the old fittings off of the old one, put them in the new, hooked it up, plugged it in, easy peasy, working like a champ. There is a couple of differences with my old one. The old one has a kind of hood over the back, covers the wire connections and the end of the shaft. The new one doesn't. It just has the back of the motor, the wires going under a solid panel screwed flat. There's a press fit bit of metal covering the end of the shaft. (If one needs to replace or remove the impeller, one needs to hold the shaft. The end of it has either a slot for a screw driver or flats for a wrench). The second difference, the old one, under the hood, has an on/off switch. Convenient for backwashing and all, turn the pump off and on right there. There's no switch on the new one, so I have to walk over to the timer, 6 or 8 feet from the pool/pump, because of code. Not a problem, but not as convenient. (Hence four stars instead of five) One more thing. I did see comments on Amazon "warning" that there was no drain plug on the impeller housing. That's not a flaw, that's how they're supposed to be. The impeller housing can be positioned either for vertical or horizontal output. That is, it can be rotated 90 degrees. If one were to put a drain plug in it, one would need two of them. An unnecessary cost. I don't even know why there's a drain plug on the basket container. The best way to winterize is to pick the thing up and bring it inside. It plugs in, it's not a "permanent" installation.

It worked for 3 weeks then quit. I need to return and get a replacement

Fonctionne très bien Seul petit bémol elle n’a pas de switch on off on doit débrancher pour l’arrêter

I wish we had known that it doesn't have an on off switch. You have to unplug it everytime you need to clean the filter. Other than that it was priced right and works perfect.