Thinking about buying one of those kits that you can hook up to your pool pump . . . something like the Sun Pirate . . . anyone here use one of these? Looking to warm things up a bit quicker so I can start swimming earlier and keep swimming later.
In ground or above ground? I've got an 30k gallon in ground and looked into solar options, but the square footage required for the collectors was enough so I lost interest.
If you've got Southern exposure on the side of the pool you could put in a pretty good size collector and up your temps quite a bit. I did notice that a lot of the sites that help with sizing them discount the use of a solar cover. When we bought the house there was a 400k propane heater and no solar cover. After running it for 8 hours once I decided I would rip it out to avoid temptation. We bought a solar cover and it helped but the pool was still cool till mid June.24 foot above ground.
However, below 70f there is the danger of significant shrinkage.
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