My wife and I will be going away for about one week and I’m looking for some ideas on what to do with the spa. I read on one online site that I should turn the heater back to about 80 degrees. This seemed to make sense to me but then I spoke with my dealer and he suggested I only turn the spa down to 94 or 95 degrees. He suggested that I would spend more money heating the tub back up to 101 degrees than I would save having it turned down to 80 degrees. Any thoughts on this??? Note that he also suggested that with the insulation in the tub, even if I set it to 80 degrees, the tub probably would not get much below 94 or 95 degrees in one week anyway.
There is also an economy mode on my spa (Jacuzzi J-345). It looks like if I activate the economy mode the heater will only come on a maximum of 30 minutes after the secondary filtration is activated, and if I don’t have the secondary filtration activated, the heater will come on a maximum of 30 minutes per day. Note that I do not have the secondary filtration activated, so if I activated the eco mode, the heater would come on for a maximum of 30 minutes per day. I again asked the dealer about this, and he suggested that for one week I shouldn’t bother with the eco mode, but if I was going away for more than one week I might want to consider it. Again, any thoughts???
And for future reference, if you also have any ideas on what should be done on longer vacations, like two or three weeks, I would also appreciate hearing those ideas.
Please also note that I am not using either chlorine or bromine as a sanitizer, so no need for suggestions on what to do with sanitation. I think (hope) I have a handle on that one.