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Welcome to our Las Vegas, Nevada Pool Heat Pump Test

 

 
 

 

Welcome Page View Digital Display Live Cam View Swimming Pool Live Cam View Live Weather Data for Las Vegas, Nevada View Test Data Entry Files Post your Questions
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This Heat Pump Lab test page is dedicated to everybody who once believed in the pool heating urban myth that heat pumps don't work in dry, low humidity conditions like the Nevada desert.

Our goal is to demonstrate what a  swimming pool heat pump can do 24/7 365 days a week on a pool in dry desert weather conditions.
Below you can view 2 pictures of our cameras broadcasting the pool and the heat pump control panel. We have also attached a thermostat in the water inlet and the water outlet of the heat pump to demonstrate the changes in the water temperature. There is another thermostat broadcasting the air temperature at the same time.

 

For our test we used an inflatable aboveground swimming pool that holds around 8,000 gallons. We selected this type of swimming pool because aboveground swimming pools loose heat faster and we love a challenge. For this size pool, 18 ft round, we need at least 50,000 btu's for a desert weather application.

We want to give an special thanks to Ruud for volunteering a Ruud 6350Ti-E-HC for this test, Mr. Terry Doyle at Ruud for his technical help and Mr. Peter Zaharuk for being our go-to guy for everything else.  And to our dear Jason for assembling the pool, installing the live webcams, supervising the installation, attaching the thermostats and taking on this huge task of supervising this test continuously. Jason we love you and it's ok to cover the pool camera if you decide to test the water yourself in your Speedo.

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Swimming Pool Heat Pump operation demo of low temperature operation. Filmed by Jason on 12/17/2008 Las Vegas, Nevada.
Weather conditions: 32 F  at 3:00 PM

This video is in my backyard in Las Vegas Nevada on December 17th, 2008 during a VERY rare snowstorm which ended up covering the entire city with 2 + inches of snow, some parts of town got 8+ inches and it lasted on the ground for over a week. In this video, my old Heat Siphon was running in the afternoon when it started to snow and I went out to take a video, showing it running in 32 degree air with 90% humidity and actually heating my pool. The water in the video was only 65 degrees because I had the heater off for the previous several days, otherwise it would maintain my pool in the low 80s every day without a problem. This heater does not have power defrost, it is a standard heat pump and later on that day it did shut itself down because of too much snow/ice build up. After the snow melted overnight, the heater came back on the next morning with an air temp around 36 and continued to heat my pool just fine.

Swimming Pool Heat Pump operation demo of low temperature operation. Filmed by Jason on 12/16/2007 Las Vegas, Nevada.
Weather conditions: 35.1 F  at 11:00 PM

Swimming Pool Heat Pump operation demo of low temperature operation. Filmed by Jason on 11/10/2007 Las Vegas, Nevada.
Weather conditions: 48.6 F , 30% Humidity at 1:30 AM

Swimming Pool Heat Pump demo of low temperature start up. Filmed by Jason on 11/26/2007 Las Vegas, Nevada.
Weather conditions: 37.2 F , 20% Humidity at 6:30 AM



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  Below please find our library of test videos for different brands:
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