Cooling with solar panels?

[cleancloths]

While I am not familiar with your exact setup, it should be fairly easy to make it work. It sounds like a control issue, the thermostats are set up to prevent exactly what you are trying to do. What you have to do is fool them. The simplest thing would be to install a manual switch to bypass the thermostats so that the system would accept water flow when the panels are colder than the pool.

[PatL34]

There should be a switch on the Jandy valve that bypasses the solar controller to give you manual control. I use it quite often on mine.

Pat

[mkelley]

Thanks for the replies.

I think I get it -- right now, as luck would have it, we've had several cloudy days and the pool temp has dropped so it's fine (of course, with the rain it's also not so great for swimming :>). As soon as the sun comes out again (probably Wednesday) I'm going to try fooling around with the manual controls as another pool forum suggested (which I think is what you are talking about, Pat).

If that doesn't work then I definitely understand the concept of putting a manual switch in at the panel sensors, so that should work as well. Thanks again for the help.