Hey Everyone, this is my first post for our new pool that was just finished and I'm looking for some recommendations on if I should change any of this setup regrading my JVAs for more control.
My current setup has 2 modes, pool & spa, but there is no dedicated spillover mode for the spa, it is always enabled where if I am in pool mode I have the spillover from the spa into the pool. This ia fine, but it means I have to run my pump at pretty high speed to get the desired waterfall effect with it being split between the pool returns, pool water features, and spa spillover. Running at a minimum of 2800 (max is 3450) for all 3 to be working adequately.
My question is, is the juice worth the squeeze to add in spillover mode in my Jandy Aqualink RS system? From reading on here I know I should be able to do it by moving my air blower from aux 3 to another aux, and then it becomes available as a baked in option from Jandy. If I do this, then I would lose my everything mode, where I have spillover and waterfalls from other features as well as the pool returns, which is the mode I figure it will be in when there are swimmers anyways. It would be limited to pool mode with water features and NO spillover, or spillover only mode with no water features (The 3 values on the right are the additional water features, scuppers).
I feel like I would gain the ability to be able to run the pump at a lower speed for better energy efficiency and pump life if I wasnt having to always sport the big spillover volume requirements. But im also not sure if that is even worth it because then skimmers wouldn't really be working strong at lower speeds anyways.
I do have more questions on adding JVAs to the pool return side to control the scuppers independently (3 at a time) and then adding a new JVA and valve on the pool return to control it independently. But this is the most extreme case to gain full control, but im just not sure again if any of this is really worth while, so just looking for some opinions from anyone who may have a similar set up or has thought about this in the past.
Equipment:
Jandy eSeries 2.7hp Pump, Jandy 400k Btu heater, Jandy Intellicolor Lights, Aqualink RS Y.g, Jandy AquaPure 1400
Pool is 21k Gallons
My current setup has 2 modes, pool & spa, but there is no dedicated spillover mode for the spa, it is always enabled where if I am in pool mode I have the spillover from the spa into the pool. This ia fine, but it means I have to run my pump at pretty high speed to get the desired waterfall effect with it being split between the pool returns, pool water features, and spa spillover. Running at a minimum of 2800 (max is 3450) for all 3 to be working adequately.
My question is, is the juice worth the squeeze to add in spillover mode in my Jandy Aqualink RS system? From reading on here I know I should be able to do it by moving my air blower from aux 3 to another aux, and then it becomes available as a baked in option from Jandy. If I do this, then I would lose my everything mode, where I have spillover and waterfalls from other features as well as the pool returns, which is the mode I figure it will be in when there are swimmers anyways. It would be limited to pool mode with water features and NO spillover, or spillover only mode with no water features (The 3 values on the right are the additional water features, scuppers).
I feel like I would gain the ability to be able to run the pump at a lower speed for better energy efficiency and pump life if I wasnt having to always sport the big spillover volume requirements. But im also not sure if that is even worth it because then skimmers wouldn't really be working strong at lower speeds anyways.
I do have more questions on adding JVAs to the pool return side to control the scuppers independently (3 at a time) and then adding a new JVA and valve on the pool return to control it independently. But this is the most extreme case to gain full control, but im just not sure again if any of this is really worth while, so just looking for some opinions from anyone who may have a similar set up or has thought about this in the past.
Equipment:
Jandy eSeries 2.7hp Pump, Jandy 400k Btu heater, Jandy Intellicolor Lights, Aqualink RS Y.g, Jandy AquaPure 1400
Pool is 21k Gallons
, in which case I will update here.