Thanks
@MyAZPool …that’s what I suspected with your NICE manifold setup. The issue I believe I will run into with my manifold will be due its placement (yet TBD) and it’s operation under wider differences in volume/pressure because I have 3+ return circuit paths to my pool: wall returns, IFCS, waterfalls, aerator (unimplemented). I DO want to monitor the pool balance during all those operations.
But those daily circuit operations have RPM ranges between 800-2700 and the operating pressure differentials across most of those “potential manifold locations” varies from between +0 up to 18 PSI. I’m gonna need a throttle
, but I don’t think it will allow the degree of consistent gpm volume control through the manifold that yours has.
Does your manifold gpm change dramatically when you operate your pump at 1000rpm vs 2700rpm? Your spa jets seem to operate on a different pump so not sure if you have such a wide operating RPM spread on your filtered pool pump system.
How about yours
@Katodude? Your ph probe is in your main line…do it’s readings change when you adjust your RPM significantly (although I think ORP is more sensitive to this then pH from my understanding)?
Anyway, enough with hijacking this awesome thread…I will start a new thread at some point because I need to redo my pad plumbing for a number of changes that I am planning. My probe manifold placement will be one of those issues.
The one place that I believe would be best for me is a manifold that simply goes around the SWG and it’s flow switch. But I don’t know if there is enough back pressure caused by a SWG to force a minimum (??) gpm through such a bypass manifold. I could introduce additional back pressure (with a valve like yours) but hate to do that because it will be very inefficient for my IFCS.
I probably end up with a manifold more similar to
@rstrouse ’s or segalions’s, but still not yet sure where to place its endpoints.