How does Pool Equipment Work?

November 7, 2007 6:01 pm allen Pool Equipment

Good news - your pool is easier to understand than your car. Still afraid, don’t be. Here is a quick and dirty guide on how your pool equipment works.

Keeping a pool clean revolves around three main points.

1. Chemicals,
2. Circulation, and
3. Filtration

Let’s take a quick stab at each of the three. Your chemicals kill the bacteria and bad stuff in your pool water. That’s why you need to keep your water balanced…so that the chlorine works. But once the bad stuff is dead in the water what happens?

That’s where circulation comes into play. The debris in your water must be circulated out of the pool. Your pool pump & motor is what moves the water around the pool and through the pipes back to the filter. So now that the water has moved out of the pool what happens?

It gets filtered (how did you guess). Filtration is the process of removing the debris (or dead stuff) from your water and then returning clean water back to your pool. The filter basically collects the debris and then the pump & motor circulates the clean water out of the other end of the filter.

The clean water flows back through seperate pipes into the return jets in the pool.

That’s it. In a nutshell your pool has a pump & motor (one piece), a filter, and pipes.

Of course this is a little bit simplified, but not too much. You can always find out more about any of these subjects by visiting more about pool equipment.