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It is amazing what a few beers can make good neighbours do.
no slam brother. I just want to be able to say, that I tried the study myself and can add some of my own input rather than relying on studies made by "independent" companies. I guess just piece of mind. This should resolve the issue in my own mind. In fact, my neighbour has a hydro pool and I am on my way to asking him to partake in the expierence. It is amazing what a few beers can make good neighbours do.
the only heat generating is 4 2 hour cycles a day. No circ pump.
I'd guess that you'd want to reduce that to two-2 hr filter cycles/day to more closely equate to the circ pump filtering.
My pump circulates about 11 GPM, so for 24 hours that'll be 15,840 gallons filtered. But if 2 4 hour cycles are the norm, then I would say that's what it should be.
That's a decent GPM circ pump and I guess you're trying to simulate the heater being off so you're probably right to leave the filtering as is.