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1. A method of controlling a water level within a swimming pool, the method comprising steps of:
providing a main reservoir formed as a swimming pool; providing an ancillary reservoir formed as a swimming pool skimmer fluidically coupled to and external to the swimming pool and having a skimmer outlet disposed in a bottom portion of the swimming pool skimmer, the skimmer outlet coupled to a pipe; providing a pump associated with a pump inlet, the pump coupled to a processor, fluidically coupled to the skimmer outlet and the pipe, and disposed external to the swimming pool and the swimming pool skimmer; pumping, by the pump, liquid from the swimming pool skimmer through the skimmer outlet and the pipe toward the pump inlet as a result of liquid in the swimming pool being at a full level; pumping, by the pump, air from the swimming pool skimmer through the skimmer outlet and the pipe toward the pump inlet as a result of the liquid in the swimming pool being below the full level; determining, by the processor coupled to the pump, when the liquid in the swimming pool is below the full level by monitoring a power measurement of the pump, the power measurement of the pump being different when pumping air as compared to the power measurement of the pump when pumping liquid; and adding liquid, by the processor, from a fresh water source to the swimming pool as a result of the processor determining that that the swimming pool is below the full level by monitoring the power measurement of the pump, the processor operably configured to selectively add liquid to the swimming pool from the fresh water source. |
