Solar Pool Heater
Last year I installed a solar pool heater that I made myself. I just T’d the 2inch pipe coming out from the pump and the T side was 1 inch. Thus, the T slips off some of the circulating water and runs it through a set of 1/2 inch black tubing. There are two headers at each end and then the water comes out onto the slide and back into the pool. The pool temp on this day started out at 68 degrees in the morning. Granted it was a nice sunny day and the outside temp was about 74. The pool water was up to 73 degrees during the shooting of this video and the water coming out of the solar heater was almost 79 degress. It had been 80 degress coming out most of the day even though the air temperature was 74 for most of the day. This was a relatively cheap way to achieve solar heating for your pool. Now each pool is different so I am not sure of your set up but this was a pretty easy way to set up the solar heater. I might add additional tubing and another header at each end this year in order to increase the pool temp even more. NOTHING LIKE FREE ENERGY FROM THE SUN TO HEAT THE POOL!!! The pump still runs off of the grid and isn’t solar. Maybe someday I will upgrade the pump to solar.
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