Hello everyone. Kimmy Kat Kat's (haha) and Jim R. brought up looking into an SWG for my AGP for easier maintenance. Especially in my case where I am gone from home a lot. Typically my wife will just join the local pool when I'm not there in the summer and has for the past three years, but she would like to start using the pool at home and a SWG just might help with this while I'm gone. Especially because I will have to hire someone to come out weekly (at best).
While reading through some of the SWG threads I'm learning that going bigger is ideal and can save you on electricity. Typically when I'm home and I run my pool our electric bill goes up about $150 extra a month. Now this was before the new Hayward 2 speed pump that I purchased last year and with an average run time of about 8 hours. But even so, running the new pump while I was home for 2 1/2 weeks to fix a ripped winter cover and a green pool of death, I spent about $230 which resulted in 1,523kw hours for the month at about 49 kw per day. This was over 1,000 kw more then the previous month as the kw per day was 19. So in just a little over weeks I added roughly 30 kw more per day by running the pump on high 24/7. Granted the pump was running this way because I was in the SLAM process. If I could set everything up properly and run it on low speed for 8 hours I would hope for a much much lower bill, but as you can see my bill can get out of hand fast. So, if I purchase a SWG I wouldn't mine spending more money on something that may be overkill in order to save some electricity. I know Jim R. recommends 2-3 times bigger than needed.
Looking at SWG's I found the top two to be Hayward and Pentair. The Hayward AquaRite models that might work best for me seem to be the R9, R15, R15 LL, and the 15-120. The Pentair models are the IC40 and the IC60, which may just be a complete monster. If there are other ones I should be considering please let me know. Either way I'd appreciate everyones feedback. This may or may not happen this season, but I'd like to get a little more insight and helpful information on what you all think would work best for me.
Pool info in my sig. Any questions or anything I forgot to post please let me know.
Thank you.
Judd
While reading through some of the SWG threads I'm learning that going bigger is ideal and can save you on electricity. Typically when I'm home and I run my pool our electric bill goes up about $150 extra a month. Now this was before the new Hayward 2 speed pump that I purchased last year and with an average run time of about 8 hours. But even so, running the new pump while I was home for 2 1/2 weeks to fix a ripped winter cover and a green pool of death, I spent about $230 which resulted in 1,523kw hours for the month at about 49 kw per day. This was over 1,000 kw more then the previous month as the kw per day was 19. So in just a little over weeks I added roughly 30 kw more per day by running the pump on high 24/7. Granted the pump was running this way because I was in the SLAM process. If I could set everything up properly and run it on low speed for 8 hours I would hope for a much much lower bill, but as you can see my bill can get out of hand fast. So, if I purchase a SWG I wouldn't mine spending more money on something that may be overkill in order to save some electricity. I know Jim R. recommends 2-3 times bigger than needed.
Looking at SWG's I found the top two to be Hayward and Pentair. The Hayward AquaRite models that might work best for me seem to be the R9, R15, R15 LL, and the 15-120. The Pentair models are the IC40 and the IC60, which may just be a complete monster. If there are other ones I should be considering please let me know. Either way I'd appreciate everyones feedback. This may or may not happen this season, but I'd like to get a little more insight and helpful information on what you all think would work best for me.
Pool info in my sig. Any questions or anything I forgot to post please let me know.
Thank you.
Judd
