Comments on: How-To: Lily Pad Pool Warmers

By: MAKE | Your Comments

MAKE | Your Comments — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:01:16 +0000

[...] response to the How-To: Lily Pad Pool Warmers piece, user Nathan (@Moriash) has a novel idea: Or to make it massively more complicated and [...]

By: Peggus

Peggus — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:52:58 +0000

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By: r

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:50:20 +0000

I think this is a great idea. wonder if there is a way to work a solar cell into the project tod something cool like circulate water along the top of the plastic surface to improve heating, or maybe circulate the pool water, or to have a downward facing LED that lights up the pool at night,
I do like the hexagon idea above. The magnets are a great idea, BUT (!!) if you have a small child who falls in the pool, it would potentially trap the kid under the magnetic seals, so i would be VERY careful about it’s application.
The black bottom pool is always a cool idea, but it looks so awful! I did so one in croatia that was made of the same black stone in the area that look mighty awesome. the rest I’ve seen look like moss ridden hell holes!
How about an arduino drive mirror that reflects more light until the pool, or onto a black “obelisk” so that the is more concentrated heat transfer to a neat artistic structure

By: DIY Pool Heater | House of Ellis

DIY Pool Heater | House of Ellis — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:13:10 +0000

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By: Nathan (@Moriash)

Nathan (@Moriash) — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:19:59 +0000

Or to make it massively more complicated and expensive for little benefit (beyond cool points), make them hexagonal, to fill in the voids when the breeze close-packs them against one side of the pool. (What? You don’t have hexagonal hula hoops at your local Toys R Us? Suppose you could make do with PVC pipes, six 60 degree elbows each.) Maybe embed strong rare earth magnets in the sides, perhaps two magnets per side, with the north side of one magnet a few inches from the left end and the south side of the other magnet a few inches from the right end. Provided you kept them all with the correct face upward, that would tend to snap them into the close packed configuration as the sides slid past each other. Probably wouldn’t work so well in the curved pool, though. Very silly, and next-to-no concrete benefit to doing that, but it’s fun to think about.

By: lizzy peace

lizzy peace — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:11:58 +0000

cool

By: lolokoliesko

lolokoliesko — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:32:53 +0000

i think that is much easier to paint bottom of pool with black color – then colder water that is usually on lower levels can be heated and circulate.. or not?

By: Eliot

Eliot — Thu, 31 May 2012 00:29:27 +0000

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