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Bullfrog electric usage
bradleyabell:
--- Quote from: Jacuzzi Jim on February 07, 2018, 09:53:54 am --- Circ pump has to be on to flow water through the heater or the spa will not heat. If you don't buy the circ pump option, then pump 1 runs and flows water through the heater. Just like yours does. So shutting circ pump off or in your case shutting pump 1 off to save energy your spa will not heat. best you can do is rest mode or economy modes, not sure I would go that route in sub zero temps.
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Which I would imagine having a pump run, would use more electricity than a circ pump...
Jacuzzi Jim:
Probably, suppose you could debate it many different ways with pro's and con's. The higher flow circ pumps like BF or Jacuzzi/Sundance use will draw more power than the smaller ones that HS uses. That said, I think the larger circ pumps run better and have less of a failure rate then the smaller laing/grundfoss magnetic impeller brands do. Just my 2cents..
Tman122:
--- Quote from: Jacuzzi Jim on February 07, 2018, 04:34:59 pm --- Probably, suppose you could debate it many different ways with pro's and con's. The higher flow circ pumps like BF or Jacuzzi/Sundance use will draw more power than the smaller ones that HS uses. That said, I think the larger circ pumps run better and have less of a failure rate then the smaller laing/grundfoss magnetic impeller brands do. Just my 2cents..
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You are correct but the failure rate HS was seeing on their Laing pumps was pretty low. I have replaced 15-20 year old circ pumps and most last 10 or more. This is part of their reputation.
dporter22:
--- Quote from: Jacuzzi Jim on February 07, 2018, 09:53:54 am --- Circ pump has to be on to flow water through the heater or the spa will not heat. If you don't buy the circ pump option, then pump 1 runs and flows water through the heater. Just like yours does. So shutting circ pump off or in your case shutting pump 1 off to save energy your spa will not heat. best you can do is rest mode or economy modes, not sure I would go that route in sub zero temps.
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What I meant was that you might be able to save a little money by not using the circ pump, since they are generally left running for extended periods, and just let pump 1 heat the water as needed like it does on those without circ pumps.
Jacuzzi Jim:
--- Quote from: dporter22 on February 07, 2018, 05:59:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jacuzzi Jim on February 07, 2018, 09:53:54 am --- Circ pump has to be on to flow water through the heater or the spa will not heat. If you don't buy the circ pump option, then pump 1 runs and flows water through the heater. Just like yours does. So shutting circ pump off or in your case shutting pump 1 off to save energy your spa will not heat. best you can do is rest mode or economy modes, not sure I would go that route in sub zero temps.
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What I meant was that you might be able to save a little money by not using the circ pump, since they are generally left running for extended periods, and just let pump 1 heat the water as needed like it does on those without circ pumps.
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It doesn't work like that. Heaters only have one pump hooked to them. Either a circ pump or a 2spd main pump, usually pump one. There might be some out there that I don't know of, but BF is not one of them.
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