90°f even after a cool front and a day of rain and wind, thanks solar cover and solar panels! I have to install the heat pump in the next week or two so we can see how much we can extend the season.
What's your current pool temp?
- Thread starter SeanB
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- May 23, 2015
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Quick, I need my fainting-couch and smelling salts....the heat pump will finally move from the garage to the equipment pad....I hope you're not being a tease
borjis
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85 this past weekend (using the heater) it had gotten down to 70 with all the fall weather last week.
Looks like 2 more weeks of summer weather then I'm done for the season.
Looks like 2 more weeks of summer weather then I'm done for the season.
Still running 88-90 here. I am, however, covering it at night with the solar blanket.
The tropical storm remnant we got last week knocked it down to 84, but a couple of days with the blanket on fixed that.
The tropical storm remnant we got last week knocked it down to 84, but a couple of days with the blanket on fixed that.
Brand new pool, new water. no heater. been running 75 in morning and 78 at night. No solar blanket yet... hopefully here soon, maybe I can get it up in the 80,s for a few weeks.
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- Jul 16, 2012
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82. Autocover closed most of the time except to swim. Could get just into October which is all we can hope for here with only passive solar.
- May 23, 2015
- 25,693
- Pool Size
- 16000
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- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Nights are cooling down into 70's and days are still up in the low 90's so the pool water is hovering in the low 80's.
I need to put my solar cover back on and start using the gas heater to maintain mid-80's.
I need to put my solar cover back on and start using the gas heater to maintain mid-80's.
Pool at 78, daytime temperatures the last two days of been back in the 90s but prior to that has been in the 80s. Next week highs in the 70s and 80s.
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similar weather here in the St Louis metro area. But I've had my solar blanket on the pool every night for the past month and have kept enough heat in there to have the pool about 84 degrees right now. I'm hoping this week of 90 degree sunny days will warm my pool up just a tad more for one last hoorah before October comes around and I have to just throw in the towel and let the water get cold.
My pool is too hot to use right now 
but I could make soup.
Ok not really actually its about 84F. This 204F reading started yesterday, I am going to try to contact Jandy and see if they will just send me a new temp sensor. I swapped the Air and pool sensor in the panel and the problem followed the sensor so I am fairly sure its a bad thermistor. If Jandy will not just send a new sensor I guess I will get the PB involved the system is a little over 10 months old so I don't expect they will put up a fight on a replacement.
Edit: In case anyone is interested Zodiac already emailed me back less than an hour after I contacted them and said all they need is my serial number to register the panel and they will give me a referral to have a service tech come out and replace the sensor under warranty.
but I could make soup.Ok not really actually its about 84F. This 204F reading started yesterday, I am going to try to contact Jandy and see if they will just send me a new temp sensor. I swapped the Air and pool sensor in the panel and the problem followed the sensor so I am fairly sure its a bad thermistor. If Jandy will not just send a new sensor I guess I will get the PB involved the system is a little over 10 months old so I don't expect they will put up a fight on a replacement.
Edit: In case anyone is interested Zodiac already emailed me back less than an hour after I contacted them and said all they need is my serial number to register the panel and they will give me a referral to have a service tech come out and replace the sensor under warranty.
- May 23, 2015
- 25,693
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Honestly 204F would be great!! At that temperature you have killed most single cell pathogens (algae and bacteria), neutralized many different types of toxins and inactivated most viri. As well, you will have driven off most of the CCs but your TA will need to be bumped up as the outgassing will have exhausted a lot of the carbonate alkalinity in the pool water. All you need to do is let it cool down a bit and then rebalance.
Check for scaling though, at those temps you've probably created quite a bit of calcium scale...
Check for scaling though, at those temps you've probably created quite a bit of calcium scale...
If my use of thermistor based sensors for bbqing is any indication, you'll be replacing those probes often. Thermocouples are much longer living.
But I have zero experience with these jandy systems.
I did a little searching and it sounds as if you are correct. Supposedly they are just 10K thermistors, I found 10 of them on eBay for $2.50. I ordered those to tryout for the next time it goes out as I suspect I will be outside of the warranty by then. Plus I am adding solar this spring so if they work will be cheaper than the $45 Jandy branded sensor. If they do work I will have to pot them into some sort of thermowell but that should not be a major undertaking.
borjis
LifeTime Supporter
77 degree water yesterday....it's supposed to be sunny and 81 on sunday and 84 on monday then nothing but mid 60's after.
2 more swimming days then my season is officially done.
2 more swimming days then my season is officially done.
86 as of this am, solar panels and auto cover work good, all it takes is a few rainy days to drop it by 10 degrees, hoping for at least mid October.