Can swimming pool suction valve accident?
The vacuum effect in pool drains is powerful enough to hold swimmers, especially children, to the bottom of a pool. Swimmers can die from drowning or evisceration. From 1999 to 2008, according to CPSC data, there were 83 reports of suction entrapment, including 11 deaths and 69 injuries.
Why does my pool drain have no suction?
Put my hand over it and threw some leaf litter nearby and no indication of suction Newer main drains are designed to distribute the water flow in such way as to minimize the water velocity going into the drain which prevents entrapment but it also makes it very difficult to detect water movement.
Can a pool drain clear debris from the floor?
Even when working properly, a main drain will never really clear debris from a pool’s floor more than a few inches from the main drain. IMHO, main drain’s aren’t very useful for anything but circulation.
Can a pool run without a main drain?
Most pools operate just fine without a main drain. And yes, a diverter can draw more water from the deep end but at the expense of the skimmer so the skimmer may not work as well. Click to expand… I turned the pump on3500 rpm and swam down with a scuba mask. Put my hand over it and threw some leaf litter nearby and no indication of suction
Put my hand over it and threw some leaf litter nearby and no indication of suction Newer main drains are designed to distribute the water flow in such way as to minimize the water velocity going into the drain which prevents entrapment but it also makes it very difficult to detect water movement.
What does a main drain do in a swimming pool?
What a swimming pool main drain actually does is act as a suction that takes the water out of the pool and sends it back to the filter to be cleaned, so that it can then redistribute it back into the pool.
Most pools operate just fine without a main drain. And yes, a diverter can draw more water from the deep end but at the expense of the skimmer so the skimmer may not work as well. Click to expand… I turned the pump on3500 rpm and swam down with a scuba mask. Put my hand over it and threw some leaf litter nearby and no indication of suction
Even when working properly, a main drain will never really clear debris from a pool’s floor more than a few inches from the main drain. IMHO, main drain’s aren’t very useful for anything but circulation.
