Eyeball direction?

[abessellieu]

I installed new eyeballs in my pool outlets a few days ago, and I wondered which direction I should be setting them to direct the incoming water. They swivel 360 so there must be a reason for this. Don't know if it matters, but there are two of them on the long side of the pool and my pool is 20x42 with depths of 3' to 8.5'.

[joelq]

I've configured all of mine to point in the same direction, so as to encourage a swirling motion to the water. Not sure if that's necessarily "correct", though.

[MaryLee]

I have mine aimed at my skimmer....

[y0manda]

Mine are all in the same direction as well giving my pool that counter clock-wise swirl everything passes the skimmer that way.

[RavenNS]

The way you guys have it all makes sense for regular round, oval & rectangle pools...
I would be interested in hearing from some people with "odd" shaped pools too

I have a lazy " L" shape & I don't know if this is the correct placement or not but everything seems to be moving well:
In the shallow end I have a universal straight piece sticking out about 2"... so this ends up actually pushing water into the middle of the deep-end when the pool-devil pro isn't attached... when the devil is attached, it brings the returned water up to the surface and pushes it along the side of the shallow end...

In the deep-end I have the eyeball pointed down & to the opposite side of the skimmer... The skimmer is about 4 feet from this eyeball. The pool is 12' deep & so I'm trying to get the heated water, ( we have a heat pump), to the bottom of the pool.

This may not be the best config, but it seems to be working well. I don't have heat spots & the bottom of the deep end seems to be the same temperature as the surface.
The "floaties" are getting skimmed out. particularly by the pool devil...( which is awesome & I highly recommend it if you have tree debris problems); some debris gets stuck around the ladders, but I suspect that's normal. Over-all I'd say the water movement is good

[abessellieu]

Thanks for all your input. I now have my 'eyes' pointed in the same direction and have a clockwise water flow. But I must say I was fascinated with the Pool Devil. Did a Google on it and found the manufacturers site - which I thought was really well done with videos and graphics. Think I'll get one since it's so reasonably priced and I do have a seed/insect/pollen problem. Another successful ending for the Pool Forum!