Take all the solar heat you can get even if it isn't "enough" to heat the pool. In the sunny months you won't use it 100% of the time, mine only has flow about 2 hours in the morning during the summer months, the rest of the time the solar isn't required. You'll have to run the pump on high no matter what for the gas or solar heat, that cost will change little, but the solar will still be free heat. I open my solar valves manually at about 8 AM this morning and the temperature is up 3 degrees in just over 3 hours. Get what solar you can get even if it isn't "enough" as you will make it back in the long run with using less gas.
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Don Wiley
GoldWingNut (a motorcycle enthusiast not a gilded fastener)
A student of The Villages, its history and its future.
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Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. - Thomas Paine, 1/10/1776
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