Recent content by mokabb

I realize this won't answer your question, but we are 10 miles north of phila. We don't have a heat pump, but do have some solar panels and use a solar cover. The temp has not been below 85 degrees in the evening in our pool since before Memorial Day.

I originally found this site when researching solar panels about 3-4 years ago. Prior to that, I had been caring for the pool myself, using a pool store purchased book as my guide. Had trichlor pucks and was constantly battling pH and total alkalinity and FC, measuring and adding one thing or...

I've done the same thing with PVC pipe and I tired of it very quickly. I cut it up in thirds. My wife, inlaws, babysitter and kids never got the hang of it. I went to a reel and my 5 year old can now cover and uncover the pool.

Also with a long snorkel, eventually all you will be doing is moving exhaled CO2 back and forth (with the nitrogen).

I installed solar on ground based racks last spring and it totally changed our pool usage. My family likes the pool in high 80s to swim in. Before solar, even with covers, we could sometimes get there for a week or two every summer. This summer, we were consistenly above 88 since the week...

It's funny how different folks like different temps. This apparently has been the hottest July here since records were kept. We have solar panels and keep the temps at 92-93 on purpose. Every night, even with the cover on, the pool water cools to the high 80s by the AM. We rarely get to...

Sorry, I took the pics a couple of days ago, but my stupid new mac couldn't read the card all of a sudden.

If you want I can try to get a pic tomorrow of mine in action. It works great so far, and seems that it should last a good long time.

Ditto... Rocky's rollers

Similar thing happened to me last year or the year before. I shocked for days but the water looked great. I finally backwashed even though the pressure was fine. The backwash was disgustingly brown and green. Chlorine held just fine after that

This season, after some pool replastering and a long acid bath to fix the spotty job they did, I have noticed that there is water within the fixture ~2/3 way up. It's works just fine and I know that it has been on at least 30 min or longer at a time without any obvious sequela, before I noticed...

You should have one measuring pool temp and one measuring panel temp. I think my valves open to the panels when there is more than an 8 degree difference. Place the solar panel sensor right next to panel

I know that it can be done, but does anyone actually do it? It's time for me to get a new solar cover. Currently I have a cover divided into 4 pieces that fit perfectly over a odd shaped pool. I'm considering using a rectangular piece floating in the pool that does not overhang the edges. I...