If you want affordable and on-demand pool heating, a pool heat pump is the best choice. Indeed, the gas heats quicker, but in spite of today’s low prices, a gas pool heater can burn up your hard-earned money in propane or natural gas, year after year. Pool heat pumps just use petite amounts of electrical energy to rotate a fan and compress a refrigerant. The heat generated is basically free–imbibed from the outside air, and transmitted into your pool water. If you want to install a pool heat pump, then you need to know how to operate it at its optimal efficiency. You should know the following:
1. AN APPROPRIATE PLACE
Ideally, pool heat pumps must be installed outdoors having a steady supply of fresh air to remove heat. You’ll need to select a place where it will obtain good airflow because the most favorable heat pump efficiency depends on good airflow. Ensure that the air being released by the fan will not strike any barrier and get re-circulated into the heat pump. Regardless of which part of the country you live in, just remember, the far your pool is from your unit, the more heat you’ll lose.
2. A FLAT BASE
A pool heat pump’s base should be level or flat irrespective of whether it is installed above or below the water level. You can install the unit on a small section of timber decking or on a concrete base or paving slabs laid on sand. The heat pump only produces a minimal vibration that won’t disrupt the paving slabs.
3. USING EXISTING PLUMBING
It’s simple to connect a new swimming pool heat pump to your existing plumbing pipe-work system of the swimming pool. The first thing you’ll need to do is to check the size of the pipes you currently have so that you can get the right-sized connectors and elbows to connect them to your existing plumbing. Ensure to put the unit behind all filters and swimming pool pumps but before all chlorinators and chemical pumps.
4. APPROPRIATE WATER FLOW RATE
You’ll need to ensure the water flow rate to the pool heat pump is not low. In case the water flow rate to your pool heat pump is low, then the water will overheat and cause the unit to turn off. In addition, you’ll need to examine that the water flow rate from your swimming pool heat pump and through your filter is not very high. Most of the swimming pool heat pumps will mention their required water flow rate in their specifications table.
5. SUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF ELECTRIC ENERGY
To support the functioning and start-up currents of the heat pump, you’ll need the right supply of electric energy. Suppose, your electric supply is unable to support your heat pump, you’ll require the services of a licensed electrician to run a dedicated cable to the heat pump. At all times, you must follow the manufacturer’s standard installation recommendations not only to protect the warranty on your unit but also to prevent your heat pump from stop functioning appropriately.
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SOLAR POOL HEATING SYSTEM
When the sun is out, you can use your solar pool heating system for warming your pool water. However, on cloudy, rainy and during nights, when the sun’s energy is not available to heat the pool water, you can use your heat pump to effectively heat your pool water. Well, pool heat pumps can heat your pool in the absence of the sun’s energy. Pool heat pumps use minimal electric energy to generate the natural heat already present in the atmosphere; that’s because they depend totally on temperature instead of sunlight. Hence, pool heat pumps are a good option as long as it’s adequately warm outside. Thus, you can use your pool heat pump simultaneously with your solar pool heating system for effective pool heating.
Besides, swapping between the two heating systems will help you to lessen deterioration, as less run time means less strain on your pool heating systems, assisting you to avert expensive repairs. Therefore, a pool heat pump that works as a backup heater will only be used for a small part of the time making it simple to handle your energy usage while keeping the energy bill down.
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