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pH. Do not use a floating feeder except for Brilliance.
As a consumer what am I expected to do in order to properly take care of my pumps? I did not see anything in the maual, or warrenty. Did I miss something?
I know that Brilliance claims to be chlorine free, which you have mentioned as a benefit regarding off-gassing damage -- but is it also pH buffered?
(hoof beats heard in the distance...)TP relies on the large pumps for:- Maintinaing the warm air barrier. Without it, as Tman says, it's ability to provide effective insualtion is gone.- Circulaton and filtration- Therapy.The main pumps does triple duty and is the heart of the system for the 3 main systems of a Thermal pane tub. Question: What is proably the single biggest failure of any tub? I am told the pumps,Question: What produces the most strain on a pump? Starting it up.
Remember Arctic and how they got blasted starting a few years ago when they first showed up on the boards pitchin how they were so much better because of their insulation??
Tom,I have a question on the report you linked.Did the testers run the tests based on no users, just normal operation?If so, I noticed they actually started the jet pumps on Hot Spring on the test. Why did they do that? Wouldn't that corrupt the test since Hot Spring uses a circ pump and doesn't need a "filter cycle?" Seems to me that would cause the Hot Spring results to have higher power consumption than it should have. How long did the researchers run the jet pumps? It looks to be a pretty good test, but I question why the researchers turned on the Hot Spring jet pumps. If they tested the Hot Spring without using the jet pumps, what would the result have been?
You question why they turned on the pumps but not the double r-factor in the Arctics cover where 80 percent of the heat loss occurs? Tom is right though it is the only test out there, even if it was sanctioned by a manufacturer and not a fair comparision.