Results are in, yesterday and today:
I know my air temps are correct, but the water temps, I'm not sure. The pool equipment seems wrong sometimes. I also have a infrared thermometer, but I'm not sure how accurate that is for shooting into the water. Maybe it's measuring the plaster temp, maybe that's close enough.
Today seemed like less sun, more overcast, and it rained. However I have a Tempest weather station (you can see it in the pic on the little table next to the pool) and it shows today as being hotter on average but with a lower max air temp. I guess the 2 days are roughly equivalent.
So, something like 4 degrees lower for running the WaterBUG for 24 hours. I did a 5km run and jumped in the pool and I can tell you the fountain made a HUGE difference! It's about as warm as it can be and still be considered refreshing, but it was great. So much better than the "warm bathtub" feeling it was before.
I'll hold off on a heat pump and see how this goes. I don't think I'll run it every day. I'll try overnight the day before I expect someone wants to swim, eg based on my running schedule.
Thanks again to tcross04 and everyone else for their input!
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6pm, 91F pool, 84F ambient
6pm, 87F pool, 89F ambient
Today seemed like less sun, more overcast, and it rained. However I have a Tempest weather station (you can see it in the pic on the little table next to the pool) and it shows today as being hotter on average but with a lower max air temp. I guess the 2 days are roughly equivalent.
So, something like 4 degrees lower for running the WaterBUG for 24 hours. I did a 5km run and jumped in the pool and I can tell you the fountain made a HUGE difference! It's about as warm as it can be and still be considered refreshing, but it was great. So much better than the "warm bathtub" feeling it was before.
I'll hold off on a heat pump and see how this goes. I don't think I'll run it every day. I'll try overnight the day before I expect someone wants to swim, eg based on my running schedule.
Thanks again to tcross04 and everyone else for their input!