General > Beating a dead horse
By-pass Filtration
Snowbird:
--- Quote ---I've said it many times before and I guess I'll have to keep on saying it: The biggest advantage to having 100% No-Bypass Filtration is that EVERY SINGLE DROP OF WATER GETS FILTERED BEFORE IT ENTERS THE SPA'S PUMP, HEATER, AND PLUMBING. No hair, dead skin, dirt, toenails, or cheezy puffs gets sucked into the guts of your spa.Terminator
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You make a good point Term. My J385 came with covers for the foot well intakes. They are a pain. The tech said they were meant to keep pine needles from entering the pumps and they needed to be on and periodically cleaned to preserve the warranty. He said a few needles wouldn't be an issue but that some tubs were loaded with them and it destroys the pumps.
However, he said that since my tub was indoors, pine needles wouldn't be an issue so I could take mine off. ;)
It seems to me the discussion here isn't about which brand has the cleanest water. It's about which brand protects its pumps the best. That is how I read Term's posts.
East_TX_Spa:
--- Quote ---It seems to me the discussion here isn't about which brand has the cleanest water. It's about which brand protects its pumps the best.
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EXACTLY!!! Thank you Snowbird! It was simply my delineation, in black and white, of the whole impetus behind 100% No-bypass filtration. It was met with obfuscation. I'm glad you saw through it. :)
Merry Christmas!
Terminator
jsimo7:
--- Quote --- I think Terminator, Chas or any other Hotspring dealer is justified in selling no by-pass filtering as an advantage for there product. It does do what they are saying and it is an exclusive feature to Hotsprings. No by-pass filtering is definitly not a bad thing. It is not like they are lying about a feature. Shake What Your Momma Gave Ya, sell your best features, it maybe important to some people.
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I agree .. It does mean something to me. My tub is outside and leaf stems, pine needles, lady bugs,bark mulch, sand ect. ect. No one will make me believe that some of those things have no effect on the pumps year after year. It just make sense to me it is better to keep as much as possible out of the equipment. Sundance must also feel it is important if they recommend the socks on the bypass intakes
SerjicalStrike:
We are ONLY talking about the Sundance 880 series spas in comparrison to the Hotspring's no bypass filtration.
The 880s have no socks on the suctions for the pumps as it is not needed. The socks were mostly for sand and once they went to bearingless jets, those socks were not needed anymore.
Then the pumps were bumped up to 56 frame and SEPARATED from the filtration portion of the spa. Those pumps can handle pine needles no problem. If you have a problem with a tub filtering 50,000 gallons of water a day and your pumps are getting clogged with pine needles, you should put your cover back on your spa when you are done using it :P
50,000 gallons of water is being filtered daily with no bypass of the actual filter. The outlets of that filtration pump are designed to kick stuff up off the bottom of the spa so that it can be filtered. The suctions were redesigned so that the pumps would not suck in dirt and other debris directly off the bottom of the spa.
Hotspring spas may be the only one that has no-bypass on their jetting system, but if you could show me where any of the 50,000 gallons being filtered on an 880 is being bypassed, I will owe you a coke.
jsimo7:
Why does Sundance recommend the socks on the other line of spas ??
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