During all these drains and refills I have been manually turning off my pump back and forth. Well, of course now my time is off because I shut it off by the breaker when I was between refills to make for certain it didn't come back on while not water was in the skimmers. So, last night I pulled the dial out and reset my time. My pump usually goes off around 7pm and it was nearly 8pm. I reset my time but then my pump was still running because I had manually turned it on late to clean my pool after its normal 7pm shut down. Well, to turn it off I had to flip the silver lever of course. I guess what I am saying is will it come back on with the timer with the lever flipped off??? I won't know until 11 am today. I honestly have never payed attention to if the timer mechanically flip that lever on and off or if there is something internal that shuts off while on the timer. I even pulled my dial out last night and changed my time to about 6:45 and let it run to see if it went off correctly at 7pm and it didn't. Confused here... While we are on this subject, pool run time advice would be greatly appreciated. I have read the article about it and here is what my situation is and what I come up with...
My pool is in the shade early morning from about sunrise to 9-10 am. Then, sun beats down all day until about 5pm it is in the shade until sunset. There aren't trees close enough to deposit any leaves much. They are about 60 yards out. I have concrete all around of course and the sunroom is on one side of the pool, retaining wall on the other and sod/concrete close to ends of pool so there just really isn't much debris other than grit blowing in off the concrete and of course those bugs and the occasional frog that feels the desire to take the plunge. Right now it runs 11a-7p. Surely, I can reduce that time. I think it running from 5-7 is probably a waste... I still have to determine how well my chlorine levels stay up however.
My pool is in the shade early morning from about sunrise to 9-10 am. Then, sun beats down all day until about 5pm it is in the shade until sunset. There aren't trees close enough to deposit any leaves much. They are about 60 yards out. I have concrete all around of course and the sunroom is on one side of the pool, retaining wall on the other and sod/concrete close to ends of pool so there just really isn't much debris other than grit blowing in off the concrete and of course those bugs and the occasional frog that feels the desire to take the plunge. Right now it runs 11a-7p. Surely, I can reduce that time. I think it running from 5-7 is probably a waste... I still have to determine how well my chlorine levels stay up however.