- Oct 25, 2015
- 5,216
- Pool Size
- 25000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
Folks,
I often get asked about how well solar heat works for me. Today's a representative spring day for me with partly cloudy skies. We had 2 days of rainy thunderstorms and the pool temp dropped to 80. Pool pump starts at 10 am and goes to 8 pm most days. Here's the graph from roughly midnight of temps. Note the air temp spikes in the morning with a lot of surrounding reflected heat. Peak today was 88. So about 7 deg added from 10 am till 3 pm. Pretty typical for us by 5 pm it's usually 88 or 89. I'll add gas heat for a couple hours to make sure it's wife comfortable. Dec and Jan we get about 5 deg. During summer months it would add 10-12 deg but we have thermostat set to limit at 91 deg.
I hope this is useful.
Chris
I often get asked about how well solar heat works for me. Today's a representative spring day for me with partly cloudy skies. We had 2 days of rainy thunderstorms and the pool temp dropped to 80. Pool pump starts at 10 am and goes to 8 pm most days. Here's the graph from roughly midnight of temps. Note the air temp spikes in the morning with a lot of surrounding reflected heat. Peak today was 88. So about 7 deg added from 10 am till 3 pm. Pretty typical for us by 5 pm it's usually 88 or 89. I'll add gas heat for a couple hours to make sure it's wife comfortable. Dec and Jan we get about 5 deg. During summer months it would add 10-12 deg but we have thermostat set to limit at 91 deg.
I hope this is useful.
Chris
