Switch to manual pump timing in the fall?

[mas985]

Mark, when you say solar cover, do you mean like a sheet of bubble wrap? I have one of those but I've never used it for leaf defense. With my pool's free-form shape, I don't get complete edge to edge coverage. Might be better than open water, though.
Hal

Yes but it is a 12 mil cover. A bit more robust then bubble wrap. Anyway, it is not perfect but it stops most of the leaves from entering the pool. I blow them off each week when I mow the lawn so I do not let them collect so they can work through the edges.

[RavenNS]

For a leaf problem try one of those skimming products...
I have the pool devil pro. It's cheep & I just hook it up with a universal adapter to one of my returns... if you have several returns, you could do more than one pool-devil
I think there are abunch of different types of these products on the market.
The pool devil has worked great for me & we have a lot of trees surrounding two sides of the pool.