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Main Pool Filtration
Running your Ecojet cleaner 4-6 hours a day significantly cuts the running time of your main pool filter system cycle to 2 hours a day. This can save up to $60.00/a month, or $360.00 annually on electricity bills.
Suction-Side Cleaners
Running a Suction-Side Cleaner (Kreepy Krauly, Baracuda, Navigator, Pool Vac, etc.) is heavily draining on electricity as they require increased running time of your pool’s filtration system because of the restricted flow and circulation caused by your suction-side cleaner. By running your Ecojet 4-6 hours a day opposed to a suction-side cleaner, you can see savings up to $70/month or $420.00 annually!!
Pressure-Side Cleaners
Running a pressure-side cleaner (Polaris, Letro, Phantom, Viper, etc.) requires an external booster pump and/or extensive usage of the main pool filtration system causing an enormous amount of energy drainage. By operating an Ecojet cleaner 4-6 hours a day and reducing your pool’s filtration time down to 2-4 hours, you could see savings of more than $180.00/month, or $2200.00 annually.
Keep reading for more detailed information about how the EcoJet works to make your pool maintenance significantly more energy efficient and less expensive.
The Inefficiency of Traditional Pool Filtration Systems
It is estimated that up to 90% of the energy consumed by traditional pool filter systems is only for water movement and the remaining 10% is used for actual filtration. This horrible inefficiency is due to the great deal of energy required for the water to travel long distances both from the pool to the filter and back to the pool in addition to the manner in which it is returned to the pool to provide circulation.
Great Efficiency of Aqua Products Cleaner / Filtration Systems
Aqua Products has taken the concept of the pool’s external pump / filter system and incorporated it into a system that is located in the pool. Mimicking the operation of a main pool filter, the Aqua Products cleaners vacuum in water, including dirt and debris, using their own internal vacuum pump, then filter the water via their own internal filtration system and finally expel the water providing circulation. In essence, Aqua Products cleaners are mobile filtration / circulation systems that also provide exceptional surface cleaning.
However, since the Aqua Products vacuum pump is situated just inches from the pool’s surface and its filtration system inches from the pump, it takes a mere fraction of energy (as little as 1/30th compared to traditional pool cleaners) to move the water (about 5% of total energy consumed), while about 95% of its energy is used for filtration and circulation flow. The mobile Aqua Products cleaners / filtration systems are capable of circulating up to 70 gallons per minute (GPM) for aboveground pool cleaner models and up to 85 GPM for in ground models, which is typically far greater than aboveground or in ground main pool filters are able to circulate respectively. The Aqua Products cleaner / filtration systems are also capable of filtering out particulates down to 2 microns in size, including sand, silt, algae and bacteria, which is as much as 10 times finer than what most main pool filters can filter.
The Aqua Products internal filter system is large, but does not have the holding capacity of a large external main pool filter. Nor do the Aqua Products systems currently provide skimming, which your pool’s main filter provides. However, the Aqua Products cleaner / filtration systems clean and circulate up to 10 times better than your pool’s main filter and as much as 30 times more efficiently than traditional pool cleaners. So although you may not completely stop using your main pool filter, in residential* swimming pools, you may run your Aqua Products cleaner anywhere from 6 to 8 hours each day and cut the running time of your main pool filter from your current 8 to 12 hours (or more) per day down to just 2 to 4 hours per day respectively. This can save residential Aqua Products customers as much as $2,000 or more annually in energy.
Additionally, since the powerful Aqua Products pumps circulate the warmer water from above to mix with the cooler water below and actually raise lower layer water temperatures providing a more uniform temperature throughout, Aqua Products cleaners may enable their owners to reduce pool heaters by several degrees to save more money on energy heating costs.
*Note: In most commercial instances due to local or national laws for their country, which mandate a specified number of operating hours for main commercial pool filtration systems, these facilities may not decrease the operating time of their main pool filter and pump.
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