Thanks to this community, I've sorted out the "important stuff" with my own pool (installing VS pump and SWG, properly maintaining and using pool cleaner, etc). Now that my pool mostly takes care of itself I can start to think about "nice to haves"...
Our kitchen has a warming drawer, which was installed by the previous owner and only discovered by us after we've lived in the house for nearly a year (it has a cabinet face, so was effectively hidden). We don't bake often and have never used it for its intended purpose - so why not use it to warm pool towels?
It has mechanical controls (ie an on/off temperature knob) and will therefore work on its previous setting if power is cut and then restored. It is on a dedicated 20 amp circuit. My breaker panel and Aqualink control box are fairly close to one another, and I do have one spare Aqualink relay. Was thinking of using this relay to turn the warming drawer on and off, with the idea that we'd turn it on as we start heating the spa.
I'd like to make sure that the warming drawer will be turned off automatically every day in case we accidentally leave it on. I'm not aware of a way to turn Aqualink relays off at time X every day, without a corresponding "on" time as well. So was thinking of having the warming drawer turn on at 9:59pm and off at 10:00pm every day, or perhaps adding an Alexa routine to automatically turn off the relay at 10:00pm every day.
Thoughts on this approach? Any considerations that I'm missing?
Our kitchen has a warming drawer, which was installed by the previous owner and only discovered by us after we've lived in the house for nearly a year (it has a cabinet face, so was effectively hidden). We don't bake often and have never used it for its intended purpose - so why not use it to warm pool towels?
It has mechanical controls (ie an on/off temperature knob) and will therefore work on its previous setting if power is cut and then restored. It is on a dedicated 20 amp circuit. My breaker panel and Aqualink control box are fairly close to one another, and I do have one spare Aqualink relay. Was thinking of using this relay to turn the warming drawer on and off, with the idea that we'd turn it on as we start heating the spa.
I'd like to make sure that the warming drawer will be turned off automatically every day in case we accidentally leave it on. I'm not aware of a way to turn Aqualink relays off at time X every day, without a corresponding "on" time as well. So was thinking of having the warming drawer turn on at 9:59pm and off at 10:00pm every day, or perhaps adding an Alexa routine to automatically turn off the relay at 10:00pm every day.
Thoughts on this approach? Any considerations that I'm missing?
