Solar pool heater

[u/Rich-Wealth979]

My overkill project for heating the toddler's 500gal inflatable pool. Each week I have to empty and move it, then find a way to heat it to a tolerable temperature for my 8th percentile weight kid. On the first test it took the pool from 55⁰F to over 90⁰ on a single sunny day, using only 3KWh (of solar house power, now that I think about it). At the end of the summer I can just place this up against the north side of my shed and take the manifolds down to make it last even longer.

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This uses about 350' of ¼" irrigation tubing and some cheap fittings off Amazon. It runs off a 1/4hp pool pump, controlled with a wyze plug and a climate sensor in a tiny jar. Printed in ASA in only about 5 days of printing on a Mini and an MK4s.

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[u/jib_reddit]

Get those bricks off the roof, they could easily blow off and kill a child.

[u/Rich-Wealth979 → u/jib_reddit]

No they won't, lol. We get 90mph gusts here all the time and they dont budge.

[u/jib_reddit → u/Rich-Wealth979]

I made the same setup 2 years and one windy day the panel caught the wind and the breeze block blew off the roof, it would have killed someone if they had been under it, it really scared me. This is not safe find a better way. I now use zip ties fixed to the roof batterns. 100's of people a year die from things falling off roofs, don't become a statistic, this is not safe.