It’s been over a year and it seems little has happened other then we’re all a year older. Summer turned into autum, then winter, spring and suddenly summer is here again. The pool was too cold last summer and we barely used it. Enter solar pool heating, and we’re in, after one day.
A small 700W pump, a controller, 20sqm of plastic on the roof, and I added a cyclone filter thingy for good measure. It is common hear to have independent heating and filtration systems. We ticked the box for “provision for solar” as part of our build so we had two deep inlets and two outlets installed at build for future heating. Independent heating systems with no filtration fed from deep inlets is common here, the thought is that deep inlets won’t capture anything big enough to cause issue in the system. But think its a waste to run a pump all day without any form of filtration. And so I added a Waterco MultiCyclone12, their baby base model. I wasn’t expecting much but its already collected a bunch of stuff from brushing that would have otherwise resettled and been collected during regular vacuuming.
I wasn’t expecting much but I’m really quite impressed with this things performance, and at the same time, it does not impede the flow of the system.
Auto top up in the foreground with some cable tidying to come.
If your going to add equipment protection go all out and put it in a bunker.