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Walmart has a number of their inflatable hot tubs on sale. This appears to be the largest model. 5-7 person (probably 4 normal fat Americans like myself) 314 gallon capacity. 85" diameter, 28" deep. The smaller ones are 177 gallons (71" x 26") by comparison.
If you have the space, this model seems pretty awesome for this price.
Double the price, double the volume, double the people. Your call.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Colema...hbdg=L1100
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Hence, you leave them running all the time.
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Same. I ordered both š¤· āļø will evaluate when they arrive and return the one I don't likeš
Just got this yesterday. It's noticeably larger than our 4-6 person one. I think it holds about 90 gallons more water and it definitely feels more spacious. Easily 3 adults comfortably. Two adults and two kids comfortable as well.
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These take probably an hour or so to go up one degree, so typically you would let them run on constantly. If you turn it off, it will takes many hours (sometimes days) to get back up where you want it to. May be knowing that will make you reconsider wanting a remote for it, I don't know.
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Hence, you leave them running all the time.
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The thing is that if you turn off the hot tub for say a week, then it will take a good two days to go back up to where it was. In essence, I am trying to say that it is difficult to manage a hot tub by turning on and off to save energy. Not that I am an expert but I have not seen a full size hot tub with that feature so I doubt the cheap inflatable will have it. You could possibly get your own remote controlled plug but you would need to make sure it can take the wattage of the hot tub and you probably cannot change the default temperature when you switch it back up (on mine it is 100 degree).
I don't think you are understanding how these work. I have another version of this one setup in my garage. You can't leave it off and hope to get to temperature in a few hours. It plugs into a 120v outlet and has to heat/filter and provide jets when needed, it can only do so much. The heater is not running the whole time either once it get to temperature, if you set it to 100 it will turn back on when it hits 98. For the money it's amazing. Had both the smaller and larger versions. Expect 2-3 years life out of them and change those filters.
Hence, you leave them running all the time.
You are probably using more energy doing that than leaving it on regulating the temperature the whole time.
As for the heat expenditure, now that's debatable and it depends on how much time heater stays on vs. off in the "on 24/7" scenario. Since specific heat of weater is essentially independent of temperature, there is no difference between, say, heating the same amount of water for 20 degrees (say from 84 to 104) in one go or heating it up 2 degrees (say from 102 to 104) 10 times.