Re: Spa Blower or Not ? Would like more from spa.

Originally Posted by
mas985
A spa blower is mainly used when the air intake is fairly far from the spa. The blower helps the jet venturis to work properly with long runs of air pipe. However, the blower does not make the jets stronger it just adds more air to the stream.
If you really want more power to your jets, you need more water flow not air flow and the best solution is a higher HP pump. It is somewhat surprising that your current 2 HP pump is not sufficient for 4 jets even with 60' of pipe run. What size is your pipe? What is the filter PSI when the spa jets are running?
Another solution is a booster pump for the spa so you don't have it running all the time.
The PSI with spa running is 25psi, the pipe size is 2". so a blower would not add anything to the strength of the flow? The venturi pipes are also located directly outside of screen enclosure from the spa too, there is a 1 1/2" pipe with a curved elbow and a 2" with a T-coupling. Pump manufacture told me adding extra HP would probably not increase the flow do to the pipe size. Any other suggestions?
Last edited by towney; 12-28-2006 at 10:27 AM.
15,000 gallon IG free form 16x32 w/attached IG 6x7 spa. Aquapure SWG, Jandy Aqualink 4 w/ PDA, Paramount infloor cleaning system, Starite 400K propane heater, Starite system 3 filter, Starite 2hp pump, polaris D'Light LED pool and spa light and paver decking. Completed in 11 weeks 7/4/06.
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