pump for slide?

[mcmeekin]

We're going to get a custom slide made for our pool. So far about 30 feet long coming from an upper deck. The water coming to the current slide may be too small of a flow. The current specs say 200 gpm.
Anybody out there got such a slide? Would a booster pump intended for a cleaner do the job? Can that be added to current plumbing? Does that kind of flow go through 2 skimmers? We don't have a main drain. only skimmers.

I'm just trying to think ahead to the plumbing. the slide is in the design stage now. They are not a local company to me. the slide will be shipped and I arrange install.

Thanks for any insight.

Stan

 

[Isaac-1]

200 GPM is a LOT of water, your talking about full flow at around 20 feet of head lift of a 2 - 2.5 HP pump

 

[jblizzle]

I think I run about 1 GPM max on my slide otherwise the water just shoots out and over the slide