Recent content by Jon123

The panels up there do drain when the pump turns off right now (the vacuum relief seems to do it's job). It sounds like a lot of water coming down - but I don't know how much water remains in the panels. When we close the pool for the season we blow the lines to get all/most water out. There was...

I appreciate the concern here! My first thought was to run it on it's own leg, but I was leaning towards, and you've put me over the tipping point, of instead keeping the SWG wired to the same timer as the pump, then I'll have the HA relay on that - so the relay itself will get shut down when...

Not your fault - two of my posts got merged, then unmerged, so things are a bit jumbled right now. I think Marty is going to fix it though :) Gotcha - so I should have mentioned, this is a flat roof. On the inlet side, I placed the panels on top of the stone pavers, so they are just about 2...

Thanks @needsajet, nice to meet you as well! I considered this, but I figured I could get +40sqft with the version I proposed. Having said that, it would be much easier to just add 3 of them - moving the whole rig probably won't be very fun. I'm going to have to think about this a bit more...

I'll be honest, I've looked into the controllers a few times, but it kept not being clear what I'd really need. I can automate most things myself (and, I can't stress this part enough - I actually like this part of things, if I didn't, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone haha) - if we ever built a...

Thanks Dirk. For some reason I didn't see your replies earlier. I was here posting and reading today (and funny enough, I was reading the other thread you linked to!) and came back to check this thread and saw your replies. When I first moved in, there was no check valve on the solar, but I...

When we bought this house, it was already plumbed for and the house had 4x 2ft x 20ft solar panels. I put them on the roof, and over-engineered things a bit so they'd stay put (courtesy of the H2T Sun Industries install examples IIRC): After a few years of this, I'm thinking I'd like to double...

Looks like we got moved to a new thread - sorry about that mods :) Thanks, Dirk, I appreciate the feedback. I'm thinking 2 is where I'll likely go as well. I think I'll probably have it face up, just because otherwise getting to it could be a pain in that mess of pipes. I agree, I don't think...

I'm about to do this myself - I'm curious most about the placement of the probes. I'm planning to use the tee with the 1-1/2" slip on each end and the 1/2" NPT with one of the 50mm thermowells with the DS18B20. The question is - does placement matter? Let's say you have a horizontal pipe -...

After looking over the quotes now you're correct that they didn't include a full chipout. Any idea what kind of premium that normally costs over the estimates I've received?

A bunch of pictures here (pool, room, equipment, etc): pool-photos That's a good point, maybe I'm being too hard on it ;) To do a proper HVAC system would really be a tear-down situation, especially given the age of everything. The room is built of cinderblock/concrete up to the lattice, then...