thereferee2
Active Member
A crazy question, could you use a rims tube to heat pool water if plumbed in line???
Pratzie said:How big is ur pool? Im not quite sure it'd be very efficient unless its a pretty small pool.
It's perfectly efficient...the question is just whether it's powerful enough.
Figure like this:
1 kwh = 3413 BTUs, which will raise a bit more than 400 gallons of water 1 degree.
If you've got a smallish 10k gallon pool and a 5000W element, you're looking at about 5 hours to raise the pool temperature 1 degree...and that's assuming that the pool isn't cooling off at all (which of course it is).
In other words, unless you've got a nuclear-grade RIMS element or a teensy pool, it's just not enough power.
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