Above ground return jet aiming?

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May 20, 2011
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I have a question on my 24 foot round above ground eye return. Its to the right of the skimmer so I have it facing down and to the right to create a counter clockwise rotation. It causes everything to go into the middle of the pool (and anything floating to sometimes go into skimmer.)

My question is, is that right? I have these big wedding cake steps that mess up flow (even with adding holes to them) I feel. I also have these giant oaks constantly dropping dust and pollen (plus the woods 25 ft away) blowing stuff into the pool. The way I have the eye set up now I consistently get a dust settlement on the bottom of the pool in crevices. I played with the eye yesterday and pointed it down but towards the middle of the pool. It still somewhat created a counter clockwise rotation but nothing on top really went to the skimmer and everything just died on the far left of the pool, right before the steps, instead of going to the middle. But, no dust settled at all. How come?!

Anyone have any ideas or maybe know why or what you would recommend? Thanks!
 
Welcome to the forum!

You might try aiming the jet toward the opposite wall. The flow should hit the wall and split in two cause two halves of circular motion.
 
I always aim mine up at a 45 deg angle and away from the skimmer to get a circulation all the way around the pool on the surface. The robot keeps the bottom clean. I never found that aiming the eyeball downward stirred anything up enough to get filtered out once it had settled anyway.
 
You also said it was pointed to the right. What I am suggesting is to point the jet directly away from the wall neither left nor right.
 
Ok so basically down and at the middle? Thats one way I tried. Had no "dust" but everything accumulated at one side of the pool and didn't really skim either. Sorry if I was unclear in the original post. Thanks!
 
Except don't point it down, just straight across.

If that is too weak, you can downsize the eyeball and get more directional flow out of it.
 
Oh. I always thought point down! If you don't mind me asking the train of thought on that? Just trying to avoid deadspots/algae and this constant dust! Sorry if im being annoying haha just generally new to this! Thanks again for your help.
 
AG pools are not that deep. It shouldn't matter much in terms of circulation and distribution of CL if you point a return up or down, there will be plenty of circulation. However, it will matter in terms of surface action and getting the debris back to the skimmer. You want to point the return so that debris moves away from the return toward the far wall and along the pool wall back to the skimmer.
 
Interesting I didn't know that. I figured it wouldn't mix to well at the bottom at all unless it was pointed completely down. Awesome to know! Ill try experimenting some this week to see what results I can get! Thanks!
 

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Ok so after experimenting some, going almost across seems to work best for the dust issues but i get a build up of any fallen debris that settles when the pump is off the outer walls. Like say leaves or whatever else falls from that tree. Its just right up against the wall on the bottom of the pool all the way around. No horrible dust everywhere though! Could this potentially leas to algae issues though? Are those technically dead spots?
 
Negative. Well I did have one someone gave me but it wasn't too effective. Looked like a lady bug. Maybe I should look into a new one. Would save me a lot of headaches. Think that setup right now sounds safe or am I potentially screwing myself? Im usually around 5ppm for chlorine.
 
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