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    What do you think of this hard plumb?

    Had this done by local pool store, wasnt there and have a few thoughts. Needed the bypass on the heater as pump is 1hp and water needs to go through it slower since only 20k btu. Thinking the backflow should be between heater and where the by pass joins before the salt generator rather than...
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    Automated timer for solar heater based on weather

    I want to only run water through the solar panel when it will heat the pool. If its a dull day or cold I don’t want to run it. I don’t want to have to watch weather each day and manually put on pump when it meets the criteria. Is there a better way? Is there a timer that looks at the outside...
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    Best solar heater for 16ft round

    Ive looked through articles here some are old and hard to decipher the best solar heater to buy in terms of effectiveness and quality. *I have no interest in DIY- ill just get frustrated. We live in chicago and my goal would be to put the solar panel on the garage roof. I have a spare intex...
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    Heat pump vs electric btus different

    Im looking to heat a 5500 gallon pool and have learned on here to size up on heaters so it heats faster. When looking at the electric heaters i would need 100+ btus but apparently the heat pump of 50k btus will heat up to 13k gallons. are they rated differently? Anything else i need to...
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    Replacing intex system

    I have a summer waves 16x48 round pool and got the intex all in one krystal clear sand filter pump and salt water generator its 2150gph. Since we got it it has always put sand in the pool through the regular filter setting and even more during backwash/rinse. We used the #20 sand. Its definitely...
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    Clip on seat

    Hi does anyone have something similar to these intex seats? They are just what we need but sold out everywhere. I googled but didn’t find anything. Ive been a creeper on this site and fot a lot of great ideas, this is my first post.