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New to Hot Tubs: Top Reliable Brands?
jtd1216:
Awesome, lots of great input here. Thanks again guys. We're no longer discouraged and going to start visiting dealers. I'll report back what we find and hopefully we can pick one that fits our budget!
Tman122:
Here's one good reason. And I have asked several questions of BF folks and never gotten any answers either so...... But anyone who says I never provide good reasons I will be slow and precise. As a 30 year plumber water movement has been close to me for a long time.
1. Cavitation is an important part of all plumbing. It is designed out as much as possible because it is noisy and it reduces volume pressure. The most common place for cavitation to occur is in the distribution manifolds, all tubs have them to disburse the water. Where are the distribution manifolds on a BF spa? Yes, that's right in the jet pac's next to your ears.
As a long time tub owner and repair guy I have looked at and serviced many BF tubs and recently had a chance to soak in a 2017 big BF, loved it. Great tub, not by any means an engineering marvel. Been in tubs that felt better, been in quieter tubs.
Want more reasons or should we not? All I was doing is letting our posters know there was BS a float.
jtd1216:
Are there brands that require less maintenance than others ( within the options I have, Bullfrog, D1, Hot Springs)? Approximately how much can I budget for ongoing operation costs for a hot tub? I'm assuming water conditioning, electric costs, etc.
zinger084:
--- Quote from: Tman122 on March 22, 2018, 07:19:59 am ---Here's one good reason. And I have asked several questions of BF folks and never gotten any answers either so...... But anyone who says I never provide good reasons I will be slow and precise. As a 30 year plumber water movement has been close to me for a long time.
1. Cavitation is an important part of all plumbing. It is designed out as much as possible because it is noisy and it reduces volume pressure. The most common place for cavitation to occur is in the distribution manifolds, all tubs have them to disburse the water. Where are the distribution manifolds on a BF spa? Yes, that's right in the jet pac's next to your ears.
As a long time tub owner and repair guy I have looked at and serviced many BF tubs and recently had a chance to soak in a 2017 big BF, loved it. Great tub, not by any means an engineering marvel. Been in tubs that felt better, been in quieter tubs.
Want more reasons or should we not? All I was doing is letting our posters know there was BS a float.
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Tman - you're actually wrong and using an incorrect term. Being a P.E. working in the field of fluid dynamics, cavitation occurs at the inlet to the pump, nearest to the impeller, where suction pressure exceeds the fluid vapor pressure. You are being confused with entrapped air within the positive pressure water stream where microscopic air bubbles gather and create noise. It's not possible (fluid dynamics-wise) to cavitate in a positively pressurized fluid pathway.
Spatech_tuo:
--- Quote from: zinger084 on March 21, 2018, 11:26:45 am ---I don't own one (yet...) but I don't see how people can steer away from the engineering (from a fellow engineer) of the Bullfrogs!? 100% wood free and jet packs to change out.
I looked at Hot Springs, Jacuzzi, Sundance, Bullfrog (and threw in Viking). I own an old Sundance, but right now, Bullfrog, IMO, is where it's at, and the others are going to have a tough go for the next few years keeping up.
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Bullfrog being different helps them at the point of sale but nothing about them makes the other brands irrelevant as you've somehow concluded. Its not like they are peddling the new combustible engine vehicle while everyone else is still selling horse and buggies lol.
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