In the interest of safety, before swimming always remove the Dragonfly™ from your pool.
Installation
The Dragonfly Floating Pool Cleaner comes to you ready to assemble and connect to your existing pool hose, then ready to install straight onto your swimming pool’s vacuum plate. You will require a 1/2 – 13mm spanner/wrench. The instructions are listed below, if at any stage you require assistance please feel free to contact us or check the FAQ’s for more information
For the initial assembly of your Dragonfly™ you will first attach the floats.
1. Attach the floats to the main body with the provided stainless steel bolts and plastic washers. The stainless steel bolts and plastic washers are found screwed into each float. You will need a ½ inch (13mm) wrench/spanner
2. When inserting the stainless steel bolts through the slots in the main body, ensure that the plastic washers are facin g ridge side i nt o slot of the main body.
3. Set the floats using the marks on the floats to the 4th mark from the top of the float aligning the 4th mark with the top of the weir.
4. Once the floats are secured in place, ensure that the side valve moves freely up and down.
STEP TWO
Preparation VERY IMPORTANT
1. Check the pump and filter systems to ensure that both are running at maximum efficiency and are fully primed. Your pool circulation must be functioning at 100%.
2. Clean the leaf basket or in-line canister.
3. Clean the cartridge or backwash the DE filter, sand filter or glass filter (your pool has one of the above).
4. If you have a solar heating system, it must be running efficiently.
5. Ensure that the hoses to be used are in good condition and are properly connected to the vacuum plate.
6. Flexible, segmented hoses are recommended.
Additional Parts You May Need:
- Bypass/Diverter Valve
- Segmented hose lengths to accommodate your pool size.
- In-line leaf canister for heavy surface debris – more information on leaf canisters can be found here
- 90° Elbow to connect hose into vacuum plate.
STEP THREE
Connecting the hose to the Dragonfly™
1. Connect the female end of the hose to the male connector at the bottom of your Dragonfly™.
2. Evacuate as much air as possible from the hose prior to starting the pump.
Install from Binary
Below are step-by-step instructions for running Dragonfly from binary.
- You must be running a Linux-based OS (if using a Mac, run using Docker, Windows WSL will work as well).
- Network access
- Minimum 4GB of RAM to get the benefits of Dragonfly
- Minimum 1 CPU Core
- Linux Kernel 4.19 or higher
Step 1: Download preferred release
Download the latest Dragonfly release from one of the links below. You can also checkout all releases here.
- Download Latest (Aarch64)
- Download Latest (X86-64)
- Download Latest (ARM64 Debian)
- Download Latest (AMD64 Debian)
Use the following command to run Dragonfly:
./dragonfly --logtostderr The list of supported flags for Dragonfly can be seen by running the –help option, and a full list of options can be viewed with the –helpfull option.
A list of the most useful flags can be found here.
For example, to run dragonfly with:
- Log message at standard error
- Password (set to youshallnotpass )
- Cache mode enabled
- Number of db set to 1
- Listen on port 6379 and localhost traffic only
- Persist data at 30 minute intervals
- Max memory set to 12GB
- The number of keys that KEY commands return (set to 12288)
- Set the dump file name (to dump.db )
dragonfly --logtostderr --requirepass=youshallnotpass --cache_mode=true -dbnum 1 --bind localhost --port 6379 --save_schedule "*:30" --maxmemory=12gb --keys_output_limit=12288 --dbfilename dump.rdb Flag files
To add flags from a configuration file, use the –flagfile flag. The file must list one flag per line. For key-value flags, use the –= format (note the equals character, you can’t use a space character).
