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$600 gets your house on solar power

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I have a spa pool. Every day it has to run for a while to ensure that the water stays okay.I run the thing for about 20-30 minutes on a timer; the pool guy runs it for 1-2 hours at a time which drives me nuts. Yes, I make sure he hasn’t played with the timer every time he comes.

Now the pump was playing up the other week and it got me thinking about the possibility of hooking up the pump to a solar generator arrangement. Then the darned thing could run all day if needed. Now  I wouldn’t know where to start but it got me wondering if something was commercially available. So I emailed Onga Pumps who passed my email on the next guy who referred me to the Solazone site.

I probably don’t need anything this big but its nice to know there is something out there at least for pool owners.

There seem to be plenty of solar heating pumps for pools and spas but I don’t need one of those - this is Darwin! If someone could come up with an arrangement that involved a solar panel or two that could be placed in the garden and hooked up to an existing pump for under A$500…

Surely its possible!

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Solar Powered
Pumps

Solazone 24 volt dc Filter Pump

Now you can run your pool filtration system for free! Solazone’s new 24 volt dc pool filtration pump. The pump is quiet and has double shaft seals to prevent water damage to the motor. The pump may be run from a 24 volt battery system, or directly from its own solar panels, via a power maximiser. The pumps can be supplied separately, or complete with filter and filter media, suitably sized for the pool.

Solazone 24 volt Solar Heating
Pump

Now you can run your solar pool heating system for free! This pump allows you to solar heat your swimming pool without even the cost of running the circulation pump. Ideal for those living in solar-powered houses, this pump can run from the household battery supply, or can use it’s own panels, via a maximiser.

Solazone Solar Powered Filtration
System

Solar pool filtration system is ideal for swimming
pool and fish farms that have no available 240 volt power nearby. The filtration
system is completely independent, and starts at first light and runs all
day.See more details of our solar powered filtration system here

As Solazone polypipe heating systems have minimal flow resistance, they
are ideally suited for adding after the filter, to warm the filtered
water on its way back to the pool.