Recent content by matthewsunshineflorida

I think the biggest challenge is probably "remembering to use it" because, unlike us, they are only going to have it on when my daughter (and just found out we have a son on the way!) is at their house. Because its usage is only about once a week, they don't want to have the keypad or a cheap...

This thread just popped up in "similar threads" while responding to a question about our SwamCam (which is also ASTM certified), in case anyone is looking in the future: SwamCam Review | Pool Alarm - 3 Months In

Yes, I would strongly recommend it. In fact, I bought one for my parents' house. I'm big into complex home automations so I would be all for using Ring/Frigate or a number of others, but there is one key upside to SwamCam verses that make it better suited to a pool alarm: ONE local device does...

I have an issue open on GitHub for a few months but my question here is just solving the symptom of the issue - any easy way to modify a file to tell it this light "sequence in progress" is no longer the current state of Intellicenter? I can control the lights only through intellicenter because...

All I've been saying from the beginning is that it cannot (and in my direct experience, does not) make any appreciable difference in delivered heat to run flow lower when the BTUs available are lower (assuming they can properly run that speed) - because the very same methods of heat transfer and...

Since you've mentioned this a couple times and it's a good point, wanted to add my experience here - I can run my solar all the way down to 900 RPM and still get flow at low pressures with my heater bypass on, but my VRV opens up at about 25gpm for the spa and 35gpm for the pool, so I just have...

This is literally all I am saying @Dirk - they are necessarily inversely related IN the heat transfer formula itself. In order to argue that anyone is wasting electricity and leaving a bunch of heat on the table due to slow flow in the morning vs medium (much less your inaccurate 21 minutes...

Exactly my point!! I'm not saying I'm getting more heat transfer, I'm saying I'm spending less to get roughly the same heat transfer. The math supports this all around. The effect of ΔT on heat lost through radiation (the only way heat is lost from the panels to the pool) is to the FOURTH power...

The thing is, insisting that volume is way more important than ΔT demonstrates you're simply not understanding the application of heat transfer formulas and what they mean for solar panels. Let me take a step back and try to demonstrate this concept in two different ways that you will hopefully...

Respectfully, I do understand the physics @Dirk, but you're entirely misunderstanding and thus misrepresenting my actual claim. I'm NOT talking about running the pump slower to get more heat. I'm simply not, so please reconsider what I am suggesting because we actually seem to somehow completely...

I just meant that I put another 1/2" NPT tee when I did my heater bypass and acid pump. Intellicenter has 3 sets of 10k ohm terminals for air/solar/water. I'm using air/water since solar is shot, but you can easily add more sensors to njsPC directly. My setup is actually very basic given what...

This is true in reverse too though, right? The manufacturer is providing that flow range for their rated BTUs which are at the highest temperature differentials. However, if the TDs are already low enough to maximize this efficiency such that it would be a diminishing return to run the pump any...

I strongly considered just adding another Ring camera along this same thought process! But I didn't see a way to set up an "arm/disarm" function with loud indoor/outdoor alarm the way I'd really prefer. I also frankly expected SwamCam to live up to its claim alerting only for humans whereas...