SwimRight Pool service contractors, serving Scottsdale, Arizona pool owners explain variable speed pool pumps
The process of building a swimming pool involves your making a lot of decisions – probably more decisions than you had ever imagined possible. When you work with the swimming pool service professionals from SwimRight Pools, one of the decisions they can help you make quickly and easily is the one to install a variable speed pump.
In the past, single speed pumps were traditional. In recent decades variable speed pumps have become prized for their ability to operate at the speed that is needed – which is to say – they don’t have to operate at full speed all the time. Variable speed pumps are more energy efficient. The up front cost, however, is more than the single speed pump. The pay off on a variable speed pump comes over the long run in energy efficiency and in money saved on your utility bills. “Green” technologies are all the rage in many areas of the country and in many industries but not all of them pay off. With the variable speed pump, though, the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that “variable speed pumps use between 50 and 75% less energy than a single speed pump.” Armed with this knowledge it makes sense to invest in the variable speed pump during your swimming pool installation or remodel.
What does your swimming pool pump do? Essentially the pump is the “heart” of the swimming pool operation and it performs tasks including:
- Circulating the water throughout the pool
- Making certain your water features remain in motion
- Powering the vacuum
- Pushing the water through the filter to clean it
The top three activities require much more energy than does pushing the water through the filter. With a single speed pump, it will operate at the same level of energy usage regardless of the task. Variable speed pumps operate at the speed necessary for the task at hand. Single speed pumps, because of the fact that they run at the same levels all day long, are energy wasters.
Bottom line, variable speed pumps only work as hard as they need to. They run faster and harder for more demanding tasks such as vacuuming the pool and they run slower and easier for ongoing tasks such as circulating the water through the filter. There are two speed pumps on the market, but be aware these may be more energy efficient than a single speed pump, but they are not as efficient as a variable speed. Spend some time with us when we are cleaning your pool to have your questions answered about the best pool pump for your pool.
