Recent content by jseyfert3

Pictures of my Intex inflatable spa

No, acrylic is not affected by salt.

It can occasionally be useful to have ozone in a spa, as it can help break down CCs. It is definitely NOT required though. If my ozone generator on my prior spa was functional, I would have tried it (while also maintaining appropriate FC), but I didn’t go buy a replacement ozone module. You...

For a number of reasons, I effectively don't shop at Amazon anymore. The primary reason initially was just terrible service. Back in 2009ish when I started out on my own, the free shipping over $25 almost always arrived in just 2-3 days. Eventually that pushed out to a week or more, and I...

I at first thought browsed there site and thought they were getting away with it by carefully avoiding mention of sanitizing anywhere. They were very careful to just use words like "oxidizer" and "oxidizes waste". However, in their shop they sell hygrogen perioxide, which they say "sanitizes and...

I mean…the next chapter may not be pools. The person I’m dating now has an interest in growing shrimp for sale using primarily or fully all solar energy. I’ve had an interest in aquapnics as a small business idea for a long time. And I’ve had an interest in solar power for even longer, since I...

If you browse through the analysis from the NERL I linked on the heat pump home energy analysis, ice is mentioned as one issue. It wasn’t actually the coil freezing up though. It was the water from defrosting the coil, running off and freezing to the metal shroud of the unit and blocking airflow...

I don't think anyone would be swimming if a pool heat pump had a negative COP. It takes a lot to bring even old, inefficient heat pumps to a negative COP. From what I've read, I can probably expect the heat pump at my current rental (there's no gas to my rental unit) to be around 1.5 even in the...