Eyeball direction?

[mshumack]

Your supposed to have counter-clockwise flow in North America. I don't know why, that's what PB told me. "Flush your toilet and see which way the water goes" was his explaination. Same theory - what ever that is. Maybe spinning of the earth, gravitational pull of moon - don't know. The toilet example was enough for me.

[abessellieu]

It makes sense to me not to fight Mother Nature - so today I switch them to counter-clockwise. Thanks for all your input.

[huskyrider]

Your supposed to have counter-clockwise flow in North America. I don't know why, that's what PB told me. "Flush your toilet and see which way the water goes" was his explaination.

That, my internet friends, is Hogwash.

Direction of circulated water in a swimming pool is at the owners discretion, what he offered is only applicable to water draining naturally. pool water is pumped under pressure and can be sent to the spot of your choice.
Some good directions are not to fight prevailing winds because the debris your pushing upwind will be pushed back towards the wall fitting, if your pushing towards a skimmer less than 15 feet away aim it slightly lower than the skimmer so you don't blow the debris past the skimmer, and if the skimmer is further away aim the return up towards the surface to get good action pushing the debris towards the skimmer.

raven,
Your best bet would be to open the main drain completely and close your skimmers each to about a quarter of their fully open position. Aim your eyeballs down towards the floor and slightly in the direction of the skimmers. Doing this will allow you to draw more water from the deepend and replace it with the warmer water from your equipment.

See Ya,
Kelly

[waterbear]

I have an hourglass shaped pool and both my returns are in the shallow end on opposiite walls. I have them pointed in the same direction which causes a a counter clockwise circualtion in the shallow end (keeps my steps clear of dirt) and also causes a clockwise direction circulation in the deep end. I have my main drain and simmer 50/50 and only get a little dirt in the pool to the right of the main drain that I have to vacumn about every 3 or 4 weeks. It took a bit of experiemting to come up with this but it seems to produce the best results in my pool. The eyeball that is going across the steps is pointed downward and the one that goes toward the deep is aimed higher, but not high enough to ripple the surface. This causes enough circulation to keep the swim ledge in the deep end clear of dirt.
I experiemented with different settings of the main drain and skimmer and found that in my pool the 50/50 setting kept the pool clean for the longest time.