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Congratulations..I think that is just awesome. I keep thinking I can figure a way to hook my tub up to my wood stove..so far no success with that..lol..but I surely applaud you for finding a viable way to save electric by using a system already in place. We all need to get innovative and find alternate energy sources!
Interesting someone's first post in this forum is to tell us about their miracle breakthrough. I sense a sell coming.
Thanks bonibelle,you are right, we try very hard not to waste the resources. thats one of the reasons that I hookt my spa on the heatpump. of course the money saving is another reason. If anybody want to know how to do it I can easyli explain it. By the way it is very funny sitting in the hot water in my hot tub, knowing that alle the heat now is comming from the earth under my lawn
Allright Spatec ill try to explain how i get the heat out of my garden. (I hope my english is good enough )I have 350 meters plastic pipes dig 1 meter down under the lawn, this is the collector and it is connected to the heatpump, the heatpump and the collector takes out the heat from the earth, it works all the years. It is a simple explenation because it is difficult for me to explain all the deatails in englich ( my language is Danish), if you are instresting in a more/better explenation you can look at this webside: www.nibe.euI allredy used the heatpump system to warm up my house, it is 250 m2, 6 people using hot water, the total cost every year is under 5000kwh.the new is that i, with succed, hooked my spa on the heatpump system.What I needed extra to hook the spa on the heatpumpsystem was : 1 heatexchanger, 10 meters isolated plastic pipe, 1 circulationspump, 1 magnetic valve and a little bit of fittings.The heatpump has a pool control and i can set the temperature in the pool/spa to temperatur between 0 and 70 degrees celcius, I have set the spatemperature to 38 degrees celcius.Another very good thing is that the heatpump delivers 8kwh power and the temperature will not drop when we sit in the spa at minus 10 degrees celcius, it hold the temperature constantly.in the european model of the hs vista (in europe call hs summit) the heater is only at 1,5 kwh an the temperature often drop to quickly when we are sitting out in cold weather.Hope this was usefull to you and others What is the price of 1 kwh 230v electric power in the states ??
"What is the price of 1 kwh 230v electric power in the states" Power cost for me in SE USA is 6.886 for first 1000KWH + 4.611 fuel charge. Total = 11.497 cents/kwh . Above 1000Kwh usage it is 0.13588 cents. Surprised that you are only down in the lawn by 1 meter. What is the physical size of your spa heat exchanger, is it in an insulated container? Picture would be appreciated.