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Who should buy this?

Variable speed pumps are intended to circulate your pool water for longer periods of time at much lower speeds, resulting in significantly less energy consumption, quieter operation, and longer service life. If you’re looking for something that’s solely going to circulate your pool water, is a much simpler product, at about a third the price but still reliable, you’ll be better served by a single speed pump. That said, if you care about your energy consumption - A single speed pool motor is the second most consumer of energy in the household, second only to your AC and can consume as much energy as all other home appliances combined. Single speed motors can cost up to $1000.00 annually to operate. With an Intelliflo variable speed pump, you can save up to $1500.00 annually which means the pump pays for itself in the first year. The Pentair Intelliflo can also last up to 3 times longer than a traditional single speed motor. The The Pentair Intelliflo variable speed pump was the first energy star certified pump with savings of up to 90% even compared to “high efficiency” single-speed and two-speed pumps, which makes more total energy savings than any other pool pump family in history.

 

Who else likes these pumps?

In 2011, FPL announced a new law that requires pool pumps of one or more horsepower to be multi-speed for all new homes in Florida. If we compare several domestic appliances like a washing machine, a kitchen cooker or a fridge, a pool pump consumes as much as 7 fridges! That means that a single speed pool pump produces indirectly about 1,380,000 grams of CO2, which is equivalent to 138 trees. The IntelliFlo can provide tremendous energy savings. When operated at low speeds its energy consumptions reduced by as much as 80% compared with a regular single speed pool pump. Sources: The International Energy Agency (IEA – www.iea.org), European Commission of Energy (www.ec.europa.eu/energy) and own calculations.

 

Utility companies are now offering rebate incentives to pool owners for the purchase of energy-efficient swimming pool pumps. - Inefficient pool pumps are considered a significant drain on energy and therefore a prime target for replacement with newer, more energy-efficient models. Variable speed The variable speed technology’s ability to adjust speeds allows you to virtually cut your pumps’ speed in half compared to a single speed motor and operate for longer periods of time. This also allows for custom programming of optimum pump speeds for specific tasks such as filtering, heating, cleaning, spa jets and waterfalls. For virtually all these applications, the optimum speed of the Intelliflo is lower than the preset, unchangeable speeds of older pumps. These traditional pumps operate at a set, unchangeable speed of 3450 rpms. This accelerated speed generates an amazing amount of heat and is directly related to their short lifespans. Those speeds are almost always higher than required and as a result, they overpower the jobs they’re assigned to do, which wastes energy. When water moves more slowly for longer periods, it helps reduce the occurrence of algae that forms more easily when water is pumped briskly and then allowed to rest for long intervals. Your filter also works more effectively because it has more time to sift out particles from the water, and because particles aren’t forced through the filter media under needlessly high pressure.