I was studying about pumps, to better understand options to save energy. 9 months ago, I bought the pool with the house and I'm looking to be more knowledged on the next season. From the information I found, the pump may be oversized respect to the filter, or the filter downsized respect to the pump and pool.
Average head space is 54 ft, with 1.5" pipes over two lines (drain and skimmer).
Looking at the manual of the pump (Pentair Challenger High Pressure 1.5HP), this results in a flow rate of 70 GPM.
My filter is a 24 sq ft DE one, I have no labels to identfy its max flow rate, but looking at the pentair FNSP24, which in my opinion shares the same grid set, this could be about 48 GPM.
It looks like the pump is oversized, also considering I have no water features to justify the High Pressure pump.
Would be worth to downsize the pump? If yes, should I better wait it dies?
Thanks for any help
Other observation, hoping may help understand the system: the pressure on a clean filter is 15 psi.
When I drained the water, thus just using the drain line, I calculated a flow of 2000 g per hour. When I normally run the pump and use only the single skimmer as intake, the pump evidently "cries" asking more water.
The water has always been clear (TFP method), running the pump 10 hours a day in summer (water temp around 92 F in Texas), and 4 hours in winter (water temp about 56 F).
Average head space is 54 ft, with 1.5" pipes over two lines (drain and skimmer).
Looking at the manual of the pump (Pentair Challenger High Pressure 1.5HP), this results in a flow rate of 70 GPM.
My filter is a 24 sq ft DE one, I have no labels to identfy its max flow rate, but looking at the pentair FNSP24, which in my opinion shares the same grid set, this could be about 48 GPM.
It looks like the pump is oversized, also considering I have no water features to justify the High Pressure pump.
Would be worth to downsize the pump? If yes, should I better wait it dies?
Thanks for any help
Other observation, hoping may help understand the system: the pressure on a clean filter is 15 psi.
When I drained the water, thus just using the drain line, I calculated a flow of 2000 g per hour. When I normally run the pump and use only the single skimmer as intake, the pump evidently "cries" asking more water.
The water has always been clear (TFP method), running the pump 10 hours a day in summer (water temp around 92 F in Texas), and 4 hours in winter (water temp about 56 F).