Sand filtration
Which sand filter system covers the specification you will actually use?
Both of these sit at the large end of the domestic sand filter shelf, and both are sold on a headline flow figure. The differences appear in what surrounds that figure: the media they take, how the water gets in, and whether anything decides when they run.
| Compared on | Sand Filter System with Timer 13 200 l/h | Sand Filter System 10 200 l/h |
|---|---|---|
| Flow rate | Maximum 13 200 l/h | 10 200 l/h (10 m³/h) |
| Stated pool volume | Up to 40 000 l | Up to 60 000 l |
| Maximum head | 12 m | Not published |
| Tank capacity | Up to 30 kg of sand | 20 litres |
| Media supplied | 1 200 g of filter balls | 800 g of filter balls |
| Media accepted | Sand or filter balls | Filter balls or special filter sand |
| Valve positions | Seven, named | Seven settings, not named |
| Pump power | Not published in watts | 400 W |
| Timer | Integrated, adjustable from 1 to 24 hours | Not published |
| Hose size | Ø 32 mm or Ø 38 mm via integrated adapter | Not published |
A tick means one listing published something the other did not, or published a better figure. It does not mean the product is better, and the column is not a score out of anything: a maker who says less loses lines here without losing a comparison. The two verdicts below are where the page is settled.
The tillvex is the more completely specified of the two and the one that turns its flow rate into a daily turnover. It names all seven valve positions, states the head it can work against, tells you which hose diameters it accepts, and supplies the larger charge of filter balls. What it does not publish is a wattage, so the running cost of that flow is unknown from the page.
The KESSER is rated for the larger pool of the two and publishes a wattage, which makes its consumption calculable. It states seven settings without naming them and leaves the hose size and the working head unpublished, so what it will actually deliver through a garden installation cannot be read off the listing. Its supplied charge of media is the smaller.
They route the water differently: filtering, backwashing, rinsing after a backwash, circulating without passing through the media, draining, closing the circuit, and a winter setting that leaves the valve unloaded. A system that names them is telling you what it can do.
Both systems accept either. Balls weigh a fraction of the equivalent sand charge and are washable; sand is the cheaper sack and the reference case. What matters for the vessel is that the medium is graded to stay inside it.
Because turnover is a daily total. A system running eight hours at a modest rate moves more water in a day than a faster one running two, and a timer is what makes those hours happen without anybody remembering.
13 200 l/h, 12 m head, 30 kg tank, 1–24 h timer
The largest system here: 13 200 l/h against 12 m of head, a tank taking up to 30 kg of sand, a timer adjustable from one to twenty-four hours, and self-priming operation.
Best for: A 40 000-litre pool where the system is expected to run on a schedule and be left alone
10 200 l/h, 400 W, 20 l tank, 60–65 dB(A)/m
The only filter system on this shelf that publishes a noise level with a distance — 60 to 65 dB(A) at one metre — alongside 10 200 l/h from a 400 W pump and 800 g of filter balls.
Best for: A system sited near a terrace, where the decibel figure is the deciding one
Any amount written into the prose below was read once, the day that sentence was composed, and nothing has updated it since. The figure a shop is asking today loads next to the product itself, and that is the only live one on this page.
