Hi everyone. I'm the proud owner of a new pool, and I have a (hopefully) quick question about pump speed. I have a 9,000 gallon pool with a raised spa that spills over into the pool. The pump is a Hayward EcoStar SP3400VSP. The builder set the time to run from 8AM to 8PM at 3250 RPM. From what I've been reading on this site, that seems a bit high for my pool. I tried lowering it to 1,000 RPM as a starting point, and that seems to work fairly well, but the water spilling over from the spa into the main pool is a tiny trickle. I have to ramp the RPMs up to about 2500 to get a decent amount of spillover from the spa into the pool.
I was wondering if I should find the middle ground between low RPMs and decent spillover and run with that, or set the timers to run at a low speed for most of the day, and then kick on a higher speed for an hour or two to get the spa water circulating.
Thanks in advance for the advice!
I was wondering if I should find the middle ground between low RPMs and decent spillover and run with that, or set the timers to run at a low speed for most of the day, and then kick on a higher speed for an hour or two to get the spa water circulating.
Thanks in advance for the advice!