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Re: My Solar Pool Heater
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by jmk on Sat Nov 10th, 2007 at 11:10:42 AM MST
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How big is your pool? Does it keep it warm? I used the same type of tubing on my roof. I didn't put it in a panel though. My roof is a 3 pitch and is about eighty foot from one gutter to the other. I just ran it randomly around the roof. I hooked it to a sump pump motor which hooked up to the filter hose and the shower drain that I put in the bottom of the pool. It was just one of those fourteen foot pools 42" deep. I hooked a timer to the pump to turn on every hour for five minutes of the hot hours of the day. It worked pretty good, but once the nights started to get cold it couldn't keep up. Plus I think it was why we got hit by lightening too. The lightening flipped the breakers for the bedrooms and killed my flood lights. I still have to fix the lights.
jmk
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by TheCasualTraveler (
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http://thecasualtraveler.com/wind.htm
Mine works directly off the pool pump. It runs for 6 to 8 hours a day as long as the pool pump runs. I have 2 valves that divert the water. Goes up to the roof in 1 1/2 pipe that tee's off w/ 1/2" nipples,(It is due for a makeover and I will use 2" pipe) then 5 rows of 4 panels for a total of 2000 feet of tubing, then back down. It works very good. Adds 2 months to the season. (Once the water gets below 80 I seldom go in.) In the summer it is shut off or the pool would be 95 to 100 degrees. (I'm in Florida) Once I left it on for a week in the summertime and the pool was up to 100 degrees, like a big ol hot tub. I had to turn it off cause the wife didn't like it.
Andy
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Re: My Solar Pool Heater
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by Ponderance on Sun Nov 11th, 2007 at 12:08:37 AM MST
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lol find a way to route the water back to the A/C a-coil in the summer and see how the wife likes 50 deg water in the summer ;)
sorry, couldn't resist!
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