Extended power loss

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Tegguy

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Winter Garden FL
Pool Size
17000
Surface
Plaster
Chlorine
Salt Water Generator
SWG Type
Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
I'm not sure the right place to post this but we have lost power after hurricane Milton since Thursday morning. Unfortunately my pool is not on my whole home backup and as such has not been ran.

Are there any recommendations of anything to do while we waited for power to be restored?

Side note: I've been trying to think of a way to power the pool equipment (or at least the pump) but I don't have any good options at this moment since the pump is 220V.... Future upgrade might be to add it to backup
 
Add 5 ppm FC per day using liquid chlorine and brush the pool well.

Use your test kit to measure the FC of the pool water and try to keep the FC at target level for your CYA.
 
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Is there a powered outdoor receptacle somewhere near the pool?

You can run a small submersible pump at the deep end and put the discharge hose at the shallow end. Then add chlorine as @mknauss suggested with a little bit of brushing. The sub pump won’t do any filtering but it will keep the water moving and not require so much manual brushing.
 
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JoyfulNoise said:
Is there a powered outdoor receptacle somewhere near the pool?

You can run a small submersible pump at the deep end and put the discharge hose at the shallow end. Then add chlorine as @mknauss suggested with a little bit of brushing. The sub pump won’t do any filtering but it will keep the water moving and not require so much manual brushing.
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Not a bad idea and suggestions on where to get a submersible pump?
 
Might be hard to find stuff in FL these days with all the storms. I’m sure there are shortages on everything. As others have suggested, if there’s a few hardware stores in your area with supplies and they’re not charging an arm and leg, you can usually get a decent a submersible pump for around $50. A submersible pump is like a shop vac or a cordless drill … just something every homeowner or pool owner should have in the garage or shed.
 
JamesW said:
How hard would that be?

How is the backup connected to power now?

What is the the backup power limit?
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Power is back on so no issues now.

It's just a matter of running a wire to the backup panel but it's a long distance run so $$.

We have Tesla Powerwalls which are capable of 15kw discharge but I'd only run the panel, SWG and one of the variable speed pumps (probably .5kwh draw) and I'd run them soaringly
 

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Tegguy said:
Power is back on so no issues now.

It's just a matter of running a wire to the backup panel but it's a long distance run so $$.

We have Tesla Powerwalls which are capable of 15kw discharge but I'd only run the panel, SWG and one of the variable speed pumps (probably .5kwh draw) and I'd run them soaringly
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The backup should only be for critical equipment like refrigerators, water heaters, AC’s, a few light circuits, appliances that are necessary such as a stove or microwave. Pools are not a necessity in an emergency. If anything, get a small gas or diesel generator to run the pool equipment. Leave the Powerwalls for the important stuff.
 
JoyfulNoise said:
The backup should only be for critical equipment like refrigerators, water heaters, AC’s, a few light circuits, appliances that are necessary such as a stove or microwave. Pools are not a necessity in an emergency. If anything, get a small gas or diesel generator to run the pool equipment. Leave the Powerwalls for the important stuff.
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Our backup is sized to run the whole house (provided we have sun) the pool would be ran during the excess generation phase.

I'm concerned with using a generator as they don't typically produce the cleanest power and might damage the pumps
 
Tegguy said:
Our backup is sized to run the whole house (provided we have sun) the pool would be ran during the excess generation phase.

I'm concerned with using a generator as they don't typically produce the cleanest power and might damage the pumps
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As I said, pools aren’t critical in an outage that’s caused by disasters of some kind or another. Usually there’s more important things to worry about.

Now if you happen to live in an area with poor utility service and outages are a common occurrence, then hooking up the pool equipment to the PowerWall might make sense. I have stayed away from backups and genies because I can literally count on one hand how times the power has gone out in my 12 years here of owning a home and in only one of those instances was the outage more than 8 hours. So backups (and solar PV) make no sense for my situation. YMMV …
 
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