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Originally Posted by spk7951
Yes I believe it does or in our case it will. My best guess is a savings of about $600 per year using solar to heat the pool vs propane gas. But we have only had the solar for less than one year and this past winter was not a good one for using a pool, so it was tough to get a good idea of our savings.
Like you we had planned on using the TV pools during the winter but with the solar we had found that we had warm enough water in our pool up until early December and then again in late March. We found the system to increase our pool temp by 8 - 10 degrees on a good sunny day even this past winter. So we are curious as to what an average winter will mean for our pool temps.
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I don't believe we could pay for it's cost in any short time frame based on the usage we would get out of the system. I think you hit it on the head. . Here is why. We do not HAVE a solar system and the last month of November and March we use a solar blanket. Last year and the year before we swam on Thanksgiving week and it was near 80 ish. We got back IN the pool on April 14 the nest year. You say you used it from early December to late March. Not enough time savings to justify it in my thoughts. Like Russ, we too would use the TV pools IF we wanted to in the winter months.