Instructions for use
SOLAR SUN RINGS WORK BEST WITH THE INNER AREA ONLY LIGHLTY INFLATED AND THE OUTER RING WHOLLY INFLATED. PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.
First thing: unpack your Solar Sun Rings and spread them out. Let them sit out flat for 15-30 minutes in the sun - this will give them a chance to loosen up after their life in the box and let the packing lines soften.
Open the valve on the outer ring and inflate - not all the way, just enough for the shape to hold. It shouldn't take more than four or five big puffs by an average adult
Inflate the inner ring area lightly - a couple of normal breaths by an average adult will usually suffice. Close the valve. Please note: Solar Sun Rings will perform best with the inner area only lightly inflated and the outer ring wholly inflated.
Solar Sun Rings will perform best when the air inside is evenly distributed. Once both inner and outer areas are inflated (again, don't inflate the inner circle too much), scrunch the whole ring into the size of a football to encourage the air in the inner area to be spread around evenly. Then, lay the ring out flat and examin it - you must try to create an even air gap across the ring and not have areas where the vinyl layers do not have a small air space between them.
The SSRs are now ready for use. Place them onto the water's surface and allow them to float around. The SSRs will attach together because of magnetic stips within each outer ring.
Not lying flat - a very common initial problem, with a very simple solution: let some of the air out of the inner circle. A small plastic tube has been provided to assist you.
Losing air - remember to close the valves on the inner and outer areas.
Settle in time - allow the SSRs a couple of days to settle in then check them. Look for sections in the inner area that are not seperated by an air space. If so, scrunch up the SSR again to help push the air around. You may need to adjust the amount of air.
Not lying flat - When an SSR is over inflated slightly the SSR will not lay flat and the outer ring will lift or get a kink in it like an upside down "V". These indications of over inflation will also indicate they are not heating correctly. The reason they do not heat well when over inflated is the contact of the blue layer of vinyl to the pool water is very reduced. The SSR heat best when there is just enough air in it to keep both layers separated.
Place them onto the water's surface and allow them to float around.
Each SSR has an eyelet which means you can hang them up from a hook when they are not being used. Alternatively you can lay them on top of each other.
NOTE - SSRs continue to work when in sunlight so please, store/hang them up out of direct sunlight. Otherwise it is possible that they overheat and could be damaged.
Naturally, this varies according to how large your pool is, where your pool is, what kind of pool you have, and your heating and insulation methods. In most areas, you'll need some kind of heating to keep the water comfortable. An unheated pool (again, in most places) will stay generally at about the average outdoor temperature. For the typical swimmer, a comfortable pool is around 25°C. Average yearly cost for heating a residential pool can easily be as high as €1500 using electrical resistance, and around €750 using an electric heat pump. Solar Sun Rings, with their low initial costs and exceptional efficiency, will help keep your pool warm using free sunlight and save you money.
A typical solar heating system costs from £3,000 to £5,000 installed. Compared with average fossil fuel heating, a solar pool heater offers a most favourable payback of about 4 to 7 years.
Please note that the actual cost of solar pool heating systems depends upon many factors - ease of installation, type of financing, location of pool in north or south, length of pool season desired and building code requirements. These variables cause price variations and the homeowner should talk to more than one dealer-installer when considering a purchase.
Imagine a garden hose that has been lying in the sun. When you turn on the faucet, out comes hot water. That's solar heating. The sun's energy has been absorbed by the hose and transmitted as heat to the water inside it. The hose acts as a solar collector.
Comfortable swimming water temperature is relatively low compared to other uses of hot water. This allows the use of simple, efficient solar collectors. Enter Solar Sun Rings.
By using the high quality polished vinyl for the top layer and a 50% density lightly frosted lower layer, Solar Sun Rings achieve a solar efficiency that greatly surpasses bubble pack covers.
The milky translucent inferior plastic used in bubble pack covers reflects much of the sun's energy and fails to allow adequate deep water heating. Solar Sun Rings design and materials allow greater solar efficiency with greater night time insulation due to greater captive air thickness. Solar Sun Rings were designed to safely heat swimming pools, not to cushion packages. The effect is that Solar Sun Rings with 70% to 80% coverage outperform bubble pack covers with 100% coverage.
Solar Sun Rings have an expected lifetime of about 5 years.
The Solar Sun Rings need little maintenance. Please check that they are correctly inflated and that the upper surface is clean to allow as much sunlight as possible to pass through. Depending on local conditions, every so often wash the Solar Sun Rings with a mild soapy solution.
The bubble pack blanket is made from polyethylene, an opaque plastic. They generate almost no heat and what heat they do generate is surface heat. The general recommendation is to cut the blanket to precisely fit the swimming pool to get the maximum heat. This causes mustard algae due to lack of direct sunlight and alkalinity due to the inability of the decomposition products of the pool chemicals to escape into the atmosphere. The bubble pack solar blanket is inefficient.
Because the solar thermal genesis and insulation properties of Solar Sun Rings is so great, when they are removed from the pool, they must be stored out of direct sunlight to prevent overheating. Each Solar Sun Ring has an eyelet so that they can be hung from a hook. Alternatively, you can lay them flat on top of each other.
No other floating solar cover matches Solar Sun Rings design for safety. Countless pets and many people have died because of entrapment with the one piece bubble pack covers. The primary design criteria of the Solar Sun Ring was to prevent entrapment.