Great idea... You tell me

[BitViper]

How many of us have fogotten that we've opend the fill valve on our pools... I've done it twice now... I've avoided an accident but I'm figuring that its a soon or latter thing....

So I started looking into automatic pool fill valves/sensors etc... $$$ ouch

But then I had this idea.. how about putting a hose bib timer inline with my fill pipe or an inline irrigation valve... and use either a manual mechanical timer to turn off after a given time 30,40,50 min etc or find a digital one that I can set and pretty much ignore. No wires to run.. no funky float valves... no dodads hanging off the side of the pool

Assumming I keep track of my evaporation rate and can figure out my fill rate thru my pipe I might.. just might avoid overflowing my pool...

 

[JohnT]

Good idea, but it's been done.

experience-with-automatic-pool-fillers-t34180.html?hilit=sprinkler timer

 

[BitViper]

Good idea, but it's been done.

experience-with-automatic-pool-fillers-t34180.html?hilit=sprinkler timer

Ha!.. I didnt say I was smart or orginal... I just had the idea... Im just not brain dead.. thanks for the link

 

[chiefwej]

Yep, it works quite well. I have an auto fill on my pool, but I have a fountain out front of the house, and with the evaporation rate here in the desert...... I just ran a fill line from my existing irrigation system and gave it it's own zone. It stays full and I seldom even need to change the settings.

Since I already had a system the cost was just some tubing and a valve, about $25 for the whole project.