Recent content by sschullo

Hi Jeff, Precisely my thinking when the installer instructed me on how to use the pump. Last Novemeber, I thought, wait a minute, if you run the pump at a slower speed, but have to kick the number of hours up to 10-12 hours, why did I buy this thing? But I had no evidence at the time as he just...

Hi Jeff, Yes, our solar is doing exactly what its supposed to do and Real Goods Solar knew how to match our needs to the number of panels that we bought. Just about a perfect match. As I said in another post, that is what I have learned. I innocently thought that I could eek out more savings...

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This is what I have painfully learned and I think the pool industry, the local cities and the power companies should know about. If you already have solar power (which is rare now, but won't be as we move foreward), the savings will not be there. It would save tax payers and power company...

Hi Jeff, Thanks for the suggestion about comparing my old pump with the new pump. I am looking into that. Unfortunately, all I can do is measure what the new pump uses. The old pump which was 1.5 horse power pump and, "too big" for my pool I was told, is all I know. The installers took it when...

I stay on top of the chemistry too. I cut down the pump to about 6 hours, because I could not go lower, the chemicals started to get out of whack and I could see algae growing. I was able to cover a month to see what it did on the power bill, but I could not see any difference. Also, I have to...

Thats what I told Pentair rep. Looks like for people who are in my very unique and fortunate situation of having solar power, no additional savings will happen with these new pumps. Luckily, I am out only $800 dollars, but its information that needs to be told to the industry so that they can...

Answers to your questions: produce about 90% of the power we use. pay about 12 cents per KWH. 14000 gal pool, 4 speed Pentair IntelliGlo VS-3050 SWCG is on about 6-9 hours, same hours as the pump is on. I was experiementing if I could get a reduction at the risk of generating algae. Nothing...

According to my local installer, I am the only one (out of 300) who is not happy, but its a bias answer from him. He has no data just what people, the few, who called him. Pentair reps have all said the same thing. I spoke with 4 or 5. I am asking around my condo complex as there are several who...

After months of frustration with my new energy efficient water pump, this week I finally found out that there may be exceptions to the claims that energy efficient pumps save on your power bill. Long story short, even the Pentair tech support admitted that he had learned something from my...