iggy
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Good Question Crabboy!
If I ran my pump 6 hrs a day that would add just over 11kw at .12 cents per kw = $1.32 per day x 30 days = $39.60
Now here in Arizona we have a peak and off peak time which we can select in our homes.
My off peak time starts at 9 PM at night and ends the next morning at 9AM.
For the summer I plan on having my pump start about 3AM and end at 9AM for a total of 6 hrs per day.
Now in the cold time with the water temp about 55 degrees I run it for about 3 hrs and I may even not use the Chlorine Generator and just add Chlorine and/or CYA manually. Now until the water warms up I would only run pump sparingly to clean pool dirt etc. I don't know maybe 2 hrs? every other day? What do you think?
I find it interesting for the folks that run 24/7? Why so many hours? You must have 100,000 gallon pool?
My previous pool was not a salt pool and was 20,000 gallons and I kep the chemicals up and ran the pump twice a week and never had a problem for 14 years then sold my house.
I do understand that you need to circulate x amount of water to keep things clean and fresh but 24/7 is a little too much for me.
These are just my thoughts and I do not mean to know it all and do not want to offend anyone here.
This is just my experience with my pools over he past 15 years.
And I thought my 12-13 cents per kw was expensive. Who is paying more?
Iggy
If I ran my pump 6 hrs a day that would add just over 11kw at .12 cents per kw = $1.32 per day x 30 days = $39.60
Now here in Arizona we have a peak and off peak time which we can select in our homes.
My off peak time starts at 9 PM at night and ends the next morning at 9AM.
For the summer I plan on having my pump start about 3AM and end at 9AM for a total of 6 hrs per day.
Now in the cold time with the water temp about 55 degrees I run it for about 3 hrs and I may even not use the Chlorine Generator and just add Chlorine and/or CYA manually. Now until the water warms up I would only run pump sparingly to clean pool dirt etc. I don't know maybe 2 hrs? every other day? What do you think?
I find it interesting for the folks that run 24/7? Why so many hours? You must have 100,000 gallon pool?
My previous pool was not a salt pool and was 20,000 gallons and I kep the chemicals up and ran the pump twice a week and never had a problem for 14 years then sold my house.
I do understand that you need to circulate x amount of water to keep things clean and fresh but 24/7 is a little too much for me.
These are just my thoughts and I do not mean to know it all and do not want to offend anyone here.
This is just my experience with my pools over he past 15 years.
And I thought my 12-13 cents per kw was expensive. Who is paying more?
Iggy