Artic Spa Error Codes & Trouble Shooting

These codes are what I've learned and come across with Artic Spas within the last year or so..

FLC= Pressure switch Failure
FLO= No Flow Of Water Running
HL= High Limit Trip (spa thinks it's over heating)
Prr= Temperature Sensor

FLC: Is and will be a definite Pressure switch failure. To find the pressure switch you must find the heater. The heater is a silver tube about 15 inches long 3 inches in diameter. Usually connected to the BLUE pressure line of pump # 1. Depending on the heater you have, it might be a T Style heater with a red cap or a straight thru heater. The red cap T style heater has the main power cord coming from the end of the red cap. The staright thru heater has a black box where the main power goes into. Along the silver tube itself, There will be a weird looking object about 1 1/2 inches in diameter, might be grey or black. It has 2 small little wires going to it, red and black but with grey insullation wrap.
Pressure Swtich

FLO ERROR: FLO Error message can be caused by a few different problems. Check the filter or filters. It might look clean to the human eye but might be dirty enough to slow down the low speed on pump # 1.
Pump # 1 has two different speeds, low speed and high speed. Low speed helps water flow through out the spa when you're not using it.
If your pump # 1 is just humming on low speed that means it just not working properly. It sounds like it wants to turnover but it doesn't. To determine if the motor needs to be replaced or not. Heres what I would normally do. While the pump is humming turn it on to high speed. Run it on high speed for 30 seconds and turn high speed off and turn low speed on...it might work or not but if low speed turns over after running it on high speed. You can just replace the low speed capactior. The capacitor is located in the black box on top of the yellow motor. Small capacitor for low speed and big capacitor for high speed. The white capacitors has two white wires. If the wires are brown in any way, the capacitors need to be replaced. After replacing the capacitors, everything should go back to normal, But if not then you'll need to replace the motor. But if you do need to replace the motor check out the wet end of the motor. Look for white residue, the white residue usually indicates that there is a leak.
Another problem could be that the motor is bad and blew a fuse for pump # 1. All in what spa pack you have, you might have the M-SPA PACK (BLUE BOX) or a Global 3000 SPA PACK. Both packs will have indications on what fuse operates what pump and so on. Press the button for pump # 1. If you here something click then it's not the fuse, but if you don't here anything click when you press pump # 1 it's definitely a bad fuse blown by a bad motor usually. Fuse for pump # 1 is usually the first one on the left..If you have a MULTIMETER you can check for continuity of the fuse.
Another case can be a bad impeller for the wet end. The low speed is running but you see no water flow. Shop For Spa Jets, Pillows, Pumps And Other Parts Today!