My pool came with a Bestway solar heater that lies on the ground. You use the included 2" flex pipe to connect it to the filter, and then the heater to the return valve on the pool.
What I'm wondering is if I get a 2" female PVC slip adapter, glue a tee junction onto it, glue a couple of PVC ball valves on it, and this forms a very very crude diverter valve. Then I do another 2" female to tee valve for the return line. This time instead of ball valves, I just do a male adapter on each end of this tee, and essentially giving me a bypass at the filter end. One end of the filter side connects to the tee at the return line and the other connects to the solar heater. The output of the solar heater connects to the other end of the return line. Then on cloudy or cooler days I can swap the heater in without redoing all the flex piping.
What are the pitfalls to this plan? Do I need to do ball valves at the return tee too?
Reason I'm asking is a 2" slip connection three way diverter is 76 on Amazon and I still need all the right adapters on top of it. I'm trying to slow down spending on my money pit before the wife kills me!
What I'm wondering is if I get a 2" female PVC slip adapter, glue a tee junction onto it, glue a couple of PVC ball valves on it, and this forms a very very crude diverter valve. Then I do another 2" female to tee valve for the return line. This time instead of ball valves, I just do a male adapter on each end of this tee, and essentially giving me a bypass at the filter end. One end of the filter side connects to the tee at the return line and the other connects to the solar heater. The output of the solar heater connects to the other end of the return line. Then on cloudy or cooler days I can swap the heater in without redoing all the flex piping.
What are the pitfalls to this plan? Do I need to do ball valves at the return tee too?
Reason I'm asking is a 2" slip connection three way diverter is 76 on Amazon and I still need all the right adapters on top of it. I'm trying to slow down spending on my money pit before the wife kills me!
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