It could be as simple as that but the pump is over 20 years old which is about their life span. Hopefully Thursday or Friday I will get the answer. If it is just a lose wire great. But with my luck it will be the pump. So I just plan for the worst and hope for the best.Widget: Are you positive that it's your pump? Ours quit last winter, and we scheduled a guy to come replace it. they pulled the cap, and found a wire that had come dis-connected. A less than honest person would have gone ahead and replaced the pump, as it was more than 20 years old. I mentioned the same thing to an other BYC person, and lo and behold, he also found that it was an electrical dis-connect, and not the pump at all.