Infomation on solar power for swimming pool?

Question

Have a swimming pool 13ft round and would like heater to be run by solar power (eats the elec other wise)any body converted to solar ?

Answer 1

GO TO SOLAR POWER .COM AND LOOK UP THE CONVERSION CHARTERS FOR SIZE AND POWER OUTPUT

Answer 2

Heating of water by solar power is not difficult to do.
Purchase a large quantity of plastic pipe, street elbows, and plastic pipe glue. You will need several hundred feet of pipe. The pipe comes in standard 20 foot lengths.

Cut and arrange the plastic pipe in a very tight "Z" fashion so that the pipe goes back and forth, back and forth, and has a lot of flat length in a small space.
Connect a small pump motor to one end of the pipe to pump water out of the pool and into the pipe. Then connect the other end of the pipe so that the water flows out of the pipe and back into the pool.

Now spray paint all of the plastic pipe "black."

Next: Arrange the pipe onto some kind of frame that is directly facing the sun for maximum exposure during the day. You are done.

20 lengths of one inch plastic pipe and the necessary elbows should be fairly compact and give you a 200 foot length of exposed pipe. Water coming out the end should be quite a bit warmer than the water coming in. You could drill holes in the bottom end and top end of the pipe to check the temperature difference using stainless steel oven thermometers to monitor the performance of your heating system. If you need more heat, build a second array just like this one and chain them together, one after the other. That should give you twice the heating capability.


Turn on the pump when the sun is shining bright.

Answer 3

The ones I have seen are basically just a series of black tubes carrying the water from the pump back to the pool. For such a small pool you could probably build your own pretty easily. The hardest part would be if it started getting to warm you would need a bypass.

Answer 4

check with your local grid