Hi all,
Have not been able to find an answer for this admittedly fairly specific question on TFP. Thought I'd finally post.
So we have a pretty standard setup with a Jandy variable speed pump and rooftop solar. There is a solar actuator valve that turns on and off to allow water flow to the roof. BUT, the rooftop sensor is broken and I've not been able to find anyone willing to go up and replace it. Annoying, but what I've done the past few seasons instead is to run in "manual" mode. What I mean by that is, on a hot summer day, the pump runs the usual filtration and cleaning cycles (Presets 1 and 2) with the solar valve in the CLOSED position. Then, in the afternoon, I will go and manually toggle the solar (there is a box with ON, OFF, and AUTO settings) to ON, watch the actuator valve turn, then run the Heating cycle (Preset 3) on the pump controller. After a few hours, I turn off the pump, and switch the solar back to the OFF position.
So my question is this: do I need to be turning the solar back and forth between OFF and ON every single day I want to run a heating session? Or can it just stay in the ON position as long as we need to get the pool up to temperature? Will the solar valve being open affect operation of the filtration and cleaning cycles? Or does the pump "know" to not use that solar pipe in those cycles?
Have not been able to find an answer for this admittedly fairly specific question on TFP. Thought I'd finally post.
So we have a pretty standard setup with a Jandy variable speed pump and rooftop solar. There is a solar actuator valve that turns on and off to allow water flow to the roof. BUT, the rooftop sensor is broken and I've not been able to find anyone willing to go up and replace it. Annoying, but what I've done the past few seasons instead is to run in "manual" mode. What I mean by that is, on a hot summer day, the pump runs the usual filtration and cleaning cycles (Presets 1 and 2) with the solar valve in the CLOSED position. Then, in the afternoon, I will go and manually toggle the solar (there is a box with ON, OFF, and AUTO settings) to ON, watch the actuator valve turn, then run the Heating cycle (Preset 3) on the pump controller. After a few hours, I turn off the pump, and switch the solar back to the OFF position.
So my question is this: do I need to be turning the solar back and forth between OFF and ON every single day I want to run a heating session? Or can it just stay in the ON position as long as we need to get the pool up to temperature? Will the solar valve being open affect operation of the filtration and cleaning cycles? Or does the pump "know" to not use that solar pipe in those cycles?
