Txborn...thanks for the link, is there any way someone to throw the pictures on this forum...I've never able to register so I could see images.
thanks!
thanks!
What's your current pool temp?
- Thread starter SeanB
- Start date
- Apr 8, 2007
- 1,616
- Pool Size
- 17450
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Hooking a fountain inline to your return will aerate the water nicely. PVC screwed in where the "eyeball" goes works and is cheaper than a fountain.
Pool is about 83 and air temp is ~ 88 and sunny. Doesn't get much better than this. 8)
Okay, so you can buy a fountain and screw that into the return - or rig up a pvc thing.......how does that affect how the chemicals flow - I was told that my return should be facing more downwards into the pool so that everything circulates better, I had been leaving it up a bit so that it was almost like a mini-fountain effect...and would that work to cool down the water ... if you just made it so your return was turned up so it would propel the water into the air a bit before it lands in the pool. Would be a bit loud though.
I think I'll have another project for this summer 
Very cool, thanks for sharing!!
-Thomas
Very cool, thanks for sharing!!
-Thomas
I love the four jet setup!
A fountain isn't going to give you nearly as good circulation as a regular return. If you have more than one return it might not be a big deal, but with only one it become a problem. You only need to use it for a couple of days if you are lowering your alkalinity. I wouldn't recommend using it full time to lower the water temperature if you only have one return.
A fountain isn't going to give you nearly as good circulation as a regular return. If you have more than one return it might not be a big deal, but with only one it become a problem. You only need to use it for a couple of days if you are lowering your alkalinity. I wouldn't recommend using it full time to lower the water temperature if you only have one return.
Hi Jason, I have 8 returns in my pool. Is that a lot for a 7000 gallon pool? Did they over engineer it? Still trying to figure this whole thing out.
Wow, txborn! That's a lot of returns! More like a large-ish spa rather than a small-ish pool! 8)Grace, it's a long story. It all started off with my PB specing a 2HP northstar pump. I told him (after posting on the defunct pool forum) that I thought that pump was way too big. He said that I have 8 returns, a 21 foot weeping wall and a spa jet all tied into my filter. My pipes are 2-1/2" and based on feet of head I can turn over my pool in less than an hour. I run my pump twice a day for an hour and a half each time which works out to over 3 pool changes a day.
Initially, he had it running 6 hours a day and my Polaris running 3 hours on a 1HP booster pump but after seeing my electric bill I decided to tone it down. I have had no problems to date so I think it is working so far.
Initially, he had it running 6 hours a day and my Polaris running 3 hours on a 1HP booster pump but after seeing my electric bill I decided to tone it down. I have had no problems to date so I think it is working so far.
- Apr 8, 2007
- 1,616
- Pool Size
- 17450
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Not to hijack back to the original thread BUT, yahoo! My pool hit 81 deg today and I am loving it. Not such a big deal for many of you but we have had the coolest wettest May/early June in many years so I am thrilled that our panels finally got sun and jumped up 11 deg in 24 hrs!! I could swim without freezing. I did laps for 15 mins and floated around like a lazy teen on a spring float. What a way to enjoy the end of a long day at work! Tomorrow should be even better.
we got up to 84 on the weekend, with the weather only being 79 or so...i loved solar panels, no cost to run and I am thinking might have to cool down at nite once July hits.
Rik
Rik
- Apr 8, 2007
- 1,616
- Pool Size
- 17450
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Pool was 86 today and the water coming from the garden hoses on the roof stayed steady at 94 all day
Riles_J
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I live in Tennessee and get full sun for about 3/4 of the day. Temps have been mid-upper 80's for several weeks with lows in the mid-60's and we are only at 81 degrees I guess that is a testament to how much a solar cover do for pool temps because we don't have one. Hopefully next year we will get a cover and a reel.
Riles
I guess that is a testament to how much a solar cover do for pool temps because we don't have one. Hopefully next year we will get a cover and a reel.Riles
Ack!! We have been having the WEIRDEST June weather here. I was actually cold while outside last night checking the pool water, adding bleach, etc. Yesterday was overcast and 60's-low 70. Today, the sun is just now peaking out and a toasty 63 degrees. 
The pool water is COLD...didn't even bother to look at the therm.
(mind you, I'd be loving this weather if we didn't have our pool now because we usually have sweltering summers )......Relief is on the way
.......92-95's :-D forecast starting sunday through next week!! Woohoo!!!
OMG, can NOT believe I'm excited about. :lol:
I was actually cold while outside last night checking the pool water, adding bleach, etc. Yesterday was overcast and 60's-low 70. Today, the sun is just now peaking out and a toasty 63 degrees. The pool water is COLD...didn't even bother to look at the therm. (mind you, I'd be loving this weather if we didn't have our pool now because we usually have sweltering summers )......Relief is on the way
.......92-95's :-D forecast starting sunday through next week!! Woohoo!!!OMG, can NOT believe I'm excited about.
:lol:85 in southern ontario - up about 5 from last week since I got the solar panel leaks fixed.