I have 2 pumps (complete with individual filters, ozone, UV etc.) at my holiday home. The reason for the double up is the size of the pool (110,000 litres).
I have been running these for 12 hours concurrently for the last couple of years and the pool looks great. I increase this to about 16 hours when we are in residence (about 10% of the time).
Before asking my question, I do acknowledge that the obvious answer is “if its not broken, don’t change it”.
I have become a little more electricity (and cost) conscious of late and was wondering how long I actually need to run the pumps. Also, is it best to run the pumps at the same time or is it better to run them at different times, meaning the pool is filtering more hours a day?
As I ask myself this, I do wonder if I even needed 2 filtrations systems. But that is not the question for today!
Three small wrinkles:
1. There is an IntelliChem on one of the circuits - so if I move to running them at different times, should this circuit run day or run night or should I be running both circuits for a shorter time period twice over 24 hours?
2. There is a heat pump on both circuits (irrelevant when we are not I residence, but I guess that when we are in residence, one wants this running during daytime hours?)
3. There are also 2 Paramount in floor cleaning systems (PV3). One on each pump - doing half the pool each. They currently keep the pool floor perfectly clean!
I was thinking of dropping the run times (when we are not in residence) to 4 hours for pump A, 2 hours off, 4 hours for pump B, 2 hours off, 4 hours for pump A, 2 hours off etc. Which would be a 33% power saving.
Thanks in advance!
I have been running these for 12 hours concurrently for the last couple of years and the pool looks great. I increase this to about 16 hours when we are in residence (about 10% of the time).
Before asking my question, I do acknowledge that the obvious answer is “if its not broken, don’t change it”.
I have become a little more electricity (and cost) conscious of late and was wondering how long I actually need to run the pumps. Also, is it best to run the pumps at the same time or is it better to run them at different times, meaning the pool is filtering more hours a day?
As I ask myself this, I do wonder if I even needed 2 filtrations systems. But that is not the question for today!
Three small wrinkles:
1. There is an IntelliChem on one of the circuits - so if I move to running them at different times, should this circuit run day or run night or should I be running both circuits for a shorter time period twice over 24 hours?
2. There is a heat pump on both circuits (irrelevant when we are not I residence, but I guess that when we are in residence, one wants this running during daytime hours?)
3. There are also 2 Paramount in floor cleaning systems (PV3). One on each pump - doing half the pool each. They currently keep the pool floor perfectly clean!
I was thinking of dropping the run times (when we are not in residence) to 4 hours for pump A, 2 hours off, 4 hours for pump B, 2 hours off, 4 hours for pump A, 2 hours off etc. Which would be a 33% power saving.
Thanks in advance!