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I kind of thought my new Sundance let me down last night. But that maybe me getting used to one company doing things differently. The majority of the time we leave our tub at 102. But on occasion when I am very sore, I love a 20-30 minute soak at 104. Yesterday should have been one of those nights. I strained my back severely Sunday night. When I got home from work I got in a 104 degree tub and enjoyed it. When we got back from bowling (yea I know, but it was league night) I opened the tub and saw 102. Nice, but not great. I finally figured out the tub was in ECONOMY mode. The only negative thing I have found so far, it seems (will verify with useage) that it is easy to accidently put the tub into this mode by pressing a unlabeled multipurpose button. My Dynasty had a dedicated ECON button that also flashed ECON in big letters on the main display when it was in that mode. The Sundance has a tiny STANDARD on the display when in normal mode, but this goes away in economy mode and is easy to miss that it is gone. I'll adjust, but in my opinion, I would rather have it require two button pushes to get into economy mode, something I'll use only a couple of times a year. Kind of like when you PC asks you, "Do you really want to delete *.*? I'll send that to them as a suggestion. Tonight it will be 104 and I'll check as soon as I get home from work and make sure I didn't put it into economy mode again. I don't know if we bumped it, or possibly (probably) I did so while thumbing through the clock and filter settings which share the same button.
You know, you overlooked one very important thing here - Did your team win?
I could not agree more strongly. As this is my first tub, "economy mode" was new to me, and I missed it on one of my many run-throughs of the owners manual. Imagine the disappointment when, having left the tub for a week, and turning it down to 94, I returned on Friday night and set it to 102. I come out a few hours later and...95 degrees. *sigh*. Took a few times before I learned that lesson.
what is the purpose of Sundance's circ. pump if you still have to mess with setting cycles? is it just and independent pump that takes wear and tear of the main jet pump? it is an indepdant pump isn't it? can't you just run it constantly to always maintain temp
12 hours by default: yes, unsurprisingly, the same on the 470. (There are actually two operation windows you can set, per 24 hour period.) I did a little reading on this, and some folks on this forum thought that 24 hour constant circulation was not needed. Some people were even recommending as little as 6 hours per day. I kept mine at 12 for now.
Only 6 hrs per day on a circ pump? That seems way low to me. For spas that use a 2 speed pump for filtering yes, 4 to 6 hrs per day is enough. I even question running a circ pump only 12 hrs bit for lighter usage that should be fine but 6 hrs seems very low to me.