Salt level at 2700 PPM question

[gregugadawg]

Just one conflicting point here, I wouldn't say that running your equipment 8 hours a day is more than sufficient run time. 8 would be a bare minimum to run it. Typically most pools are designed to turn over in 6-8 hours, in the middle of the summer you would want to run the pump a minimum of 12 hours during the heat of the day. 8am-8pm is normally recommended, you don't want to run it in the morning and off during the day and at night, you want at a bare minimum 8 continuous hours during the heat of the day. And to be honest most people will agree if you can afford the little extra to run it 24 hours a day it will save you money in the long run and a lot of headaches.

[aylad]

Just one conflicting point here, I wouldn't say that running your equipment 8 hours a day is more than sufficient run time. 8 would be a bare minimum to run it. Typically most pools are designed to turn over in 6-8 hours, in the middle of the summer you would want to run the pump a minimum of 12 hours during the heat of the day. 8am-8pm is normally recommended, you don't want to run it in the morning and off during the day and at night, you want at a bare minimum 8 continuous hours during the heat of the day. And to be honest most people will agree if you can afford the little extra to run it 24 hours a day it will save you money in the long run and a lot of headaches.

Depending on the size of the pool and the equipment involved, run time of 8 hours a day may very well be adequate. Not all of us would agree that running the pump a minimum of 12 hours during the heat of the day is necessary, either. And when you consider that SWC cell life is rated in hours of run time, running it 24 hours/day could cost way more than the electric bill.

Janet

[gregugadawg]

ok so the pump is not going to run between 10am and 4pm, saying you keep a chlorine residual of 2-4 ppm that will be gone by 1 in the afternoon, not too mention if people are swimming in the water it isn't going to be filtering at all. I said 8 hours is not going to be more than enough, if anything it is a bare minimum, and those 8 hours need to be continuous and during the heat of the day.

[waterbear]

since most SWG manufacterers recommend CYA levels of 60-80 ppm I really don't think that the chlorine would be gone by 1 pm. Also, splitting your run time into smaller blocks throughout the day and night would help equalize things and extra dogs (trippers) for timeclocks are cheap and readily available!

I have to agree with Janet on this one!

[gregugadawg]

can you tell me one reason you wouldnt run the pump from 9-5 continuosly everyday as opposed to the way he is currently doing it

[waterbear]

I actually run my pump in a similar way. I run it from 10A to 3P so my heatpump can take advantage of the maxmum heat of the day. then my spa (which share the pump and filtration equipment) runs from 3:30P to 5:30P so it will be up to temperature when I come home from work in case I want to use it (once again taking advantage of the afternoon heat for the heatpump), and then my pool runs again from 6P to 9P so I have 8 hours of run time on the pool. Also, I often use the pool in the evenings so this way the filter is running when I am likely to be in it. My SWG output for the pool is set to 15% which keeps my FC at about 3 ppm in the pool and the spa is set to 6% which keep my spa at about 5 ppm FC.

I think I have given you MORE than one reason not to run the pump 9-5 every day but to split it up. My reasons might be different than bell7272's but I see no reason NOT to run the pump as he does.