malcolmb5325 said:
also a good idea to put in a pressure cleaner line in just incase.
If I was building a pool right now I would put in a dedicated return for pressure cleaner and plumb for vacuum cleaner too. It's not that much more cost to do that and you have options. You don't have to use either now and may go with a robotic but they are not always the best choice in certain circumstances. The are very heavy when you heave them out of the water. I have my Aquabot loaned out to a friend who cannot even bend over to grasp the handle, let alone lift is out, so I have to go over to change the bags out for her. I can't run my Aquabot during the day because, of my three cleaners, the power cord is the only one that my dogs, even the best swimmers, get tangled in. They do fine with the pressure side hose and the vacuum side hose by just swimming over it as if it isn't there. At any rate if you have the plumbing going to an from the pumping station you have many more future option.
Your desires and needs may change. Mine change throughout the seasons and the use of each is sometimes determined by what type and how much debris is going into the pool.
I have all three types of cleaner. The pressure Polaris has always been the best for capturing leave, in the fall and winter and is now doing a great job of picking up and contain the very fine chalk and clay powder, using the expensive, disposable EZ bags. Even though I have found out how to clean them and reuse I only get about 24 hours cycle time before the "fabric" begins to deteriorate. The fine powder goes right through every other Polaris bag, even with silt liners. I'm running mine now four 2 hour cycles a day (reduced it down from five and will probably try six hours a day starting tomorrow when I have time to fiddle with the timer) to keep the flying dust and sand/silt blown in and dragged in by dogs at an acceptable level.
But I just discovered yesterday, that my booster pump is rated over 1 HPSF, at 3450 rpm. That's more than double what I run my variable flow pump at for best filtering, skimmer suction, and Pool Skim venturi action and it draws less than 200 watts, more like 175 watts much of the time, while doing everything nicely. Yikes, what an energy suck the booster pump is.
I'm going to put the suction side cleaner in tomorrow to see how little rpm, or gpm, or watts will do the other jobs well, and allow the suction cleaner to do it's job well. I'm hoping to conserve even more on electricity, by using the suction cleaner and no booster pump, but I haven't done the numbers yet. The suction side cleans much more slowly than the Polaris and the Aquabot. The Polaris is the least hassle, the easiest to pull out of the pool, when you don't want it in the pool, and is the least obnoxious of the two non robotic cleaners. The hose on the suction side is big and isn't supposed to be stored rolled up. That's a hassle to me; taking the sections apart. And it does the worst job picking up leaves. If you have leaves going in the pool, you will need an in line leaf catcher to stop the leaves from making it to the pumps basket. The big leaf canister is a hassle but does the job well.
Do as much during the build as possible. It will payoff in the end.
gg=alice
