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Pool plumbing re-routing help
- Pumps, Filters, and Plumbing
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I'm still a newbie, so maybe I'm getting things wrong. So, others will chime in.
First, I don't see more pictures, only one.
Regardless, you want to make sure the SWCG (Salt Water Chlorine Generator) is after the heater. The device takes salty water, and converts it to chlorinated water. I guess it's bad to have the heavy amount of chlorine in the heater, so that's why it comes after the heater.
Usually you'll use a check valve, which is a one-way valve, after the heater and before the SWCG. That way, if the pump is off or whatever the case, (freshly chlorinated) water doesn't go backwards back into the heater. Don't know if distance is a huge issue, but that check valve will do what your 'several feet' was doing, but probably better. (I'm in the process of doing the same thing, different SWCG, and I'm going to use a check valve with flow meter built in, so I can check how much water is going through.)
I have seen lots of people do their SWCG vertical, especially with not much room, so it would look something like below.
First, I don't see more pictures, only one.
Regardless, you want to make sure the SWCG (Salt Water Chlorine Generator) is after the heater. The device takes salty water, and converts it to chlorinated water. I guess it's bad to have the heavy amount of chlorine in the heater, so that's why it comes after the heater.
Usually you'll use a check valve, which is a one-way valve, after the heater and before the SWCG. That way, if the pump is off or whatever the case, (freshly chlorinated) water doesn't go backwards back into the heater. Don't know if distance is a huge issue, but that check valve will do what your 'several feet' was doing, but probably better. (I'm in the process of doing the same thing, different SWCG, and I'm going to use a check valve with flow meter built in, so I can check how much water is going through.)
I have seen lots of people do their SWCG vertical, especially with not much room, so it would look something like below.
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Plug identification
- By Newdude
- Swimming Pool Start-up and Closing
- 6 Replies
The black one is your heater drain plug, providing you have a heater. 
Let’s see your water after removing winter cover!! **RESURRECTED FOR 2025!**
- Swimming Pool Start-up and Closing
- 378 Replies
Oh, and y'all can peep my Golden Retriever, Teddy (he’s been bad lately….little escape artist! 
) and my 5 lb Pomeranian, Craig, in the background of the first pic! I call them my “Blonde Squad”. 
) and my 5 lb Pomeranian, Craig, in the background of the first pic! I call them my “Blonde Squad”. Fake tan is heinous
- Spas and Hot Tubs
- 43 Replies
This I will admit!! A tan makes most people look thinner and more flattering — IF DONE RIGHT. @Newdude can keep his spray tan schedule and I’ll get my tan by floating in the pool, minding my business.Cuz every body knows fat looks better tan
That was literally the line of a local tanning salon commercial here
Electric Heater without cover
- By JamesW
- Everything Else
- 21 Replies
Temperature = 84 + (65-84)e^(-0.0441Time).
X = Time in Hours.
Y = Temperature.
Y = 84 + (65-84)e^(-0.0441X).
X = -22.6757 ln((Y - 84)/-19)
You can use this formula to calculate the time to reach a temperature or the temperature at a specific time.
For example, to get to 82 degrees will take about 51 hours.
To get to 83.5224 degrees, it will take 83.5224 hours.
To get to 83.9885 degrees will take 1 week (168 hours).
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X = Time in Hours.
Y = Temperature.
Y = 84 + (65-84)e^(-0.0441X).
X = -22.6757 ln((Y - 84)/-19)
You can use this formula to calculate the time to reach a temperature or the temperature at a specific time.
For example, to get to 82 degrees will take about 51 hours.
To get to 83.5224 degrees, it will take 83.5224 hours.
To get to 83.9885 degrees will take 1 week (168 hours).
Y = 84 + (65-84)e^(-0.0441x), x from 0 to 80 - Wolfram|Alpha
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Let’s see your water after removing winter cover!! **RESURRECTED FOR 2025!**
- By Newdude
- Swimming Pool Start-up and Closing
- 378 Replies
Oh, I most certainly disagree. It's officially open.
But not running.
I'd take like the above pics any year.
Gotta love TFP !! You're pulling the cover after months off and looking better than the other people do on their good days.
Refill Inquiry
- By mknauss
- Just Getting Started
- 47 Replies
Just Filled Your Pool with Water? Here's What To Do Next - Further Reading
www.troublefreepool.com
Fake tan is heinous
- Spas and Hot Tubs
- 43 Replies
Because in my teenage dirtbag years (middle and high school), tanning beds were all the rage. Obviously, strong UV rays are bad for you (shocking, right), so many people do spray tans instead. I’m half Greek and have a natural base tan, so I just stay a lil “pasty” in the winter and get tan by floating and swimming in the pool (with SPF!!) in the summer. I had a spray tan ONCE, and looked like RFK Jr.
It was TERRIBLE and there was nothing I could do to get it off without it looking splotchy. I’ll skip the spray tanning and self tanner and stick to the sun (with spf….especially face) and a lil Botox here n there to keep me still looking like a 25 yr old float queen — 12 years later.
