One question about the return line - Ive noticed in the ads for the prebuilt panels (the kind they show on the ground, standing tilted near the side of an AG pool) that the return lines are flexible pipe.
Can you use the flexible return lines like most AG owners have currently? Isn't the water too hot for flex? I was planning to use my current flex so I don't have to buy any more fixtures but was thinking about the heat?
I'm currently in the 'build' stage of my home built solar heater.
We get over 300 days of sun here in AusTX and we stopped swimming 2 weeks ago, just because we got 2 'cold' fronts and temps dropped into the mid-80s during the day. Yesterday it was 90+ and today it will be also, 9hrs of sun. I'm using 1/2" poly pipe off a 5-outlet header into 50' of hose each, 250' of hose, coiled in a used hard pvc pond (empty of course). With the sun I'm hoping for an added boost of 2-3deg. to current pool temps of 75-77. Night temps in the upper 50's are dropping the pool temp so any recovery is slow. Hoping a little help from my home-built will have us swimming in the evenings/weekends.
TomC