SmartPool S240U Universal Sun Heater, 4 by 20Inch

Excelente calentador solar.Mi piscina de 3 x 6 m con cubierta la calentó a 35°

I was able to set this up in less than an hour. I purchased one new length of hose for $8 to make it work. It's like a hot water tap pouring into the pool when the sun is out! Made all the difference for our 12' round × 3' deep pool.

Last night after the sun went down we were in our 88 degree water with visible steam rising from the surface. It was awesome. The average daily temp in PA where I live has been less than 70 degrees since we filled the pool and about 78 the past 4 days. Last year I might have been able to get the water temperature up to 78 this week had I been very meticulous with the solar cover. So I'm crediting these solar panels with a 10 degree improvement.The panels were actually the least expensive part of the project. All together I spent about $1000 for this set up, but I had a lot of fun doing it. My house is too far away from the pool to run pipe through the yard and up to the roof. The pool gets only about 4-5 hours of sunlight a day, but the area around the pool gets up to 9 hours of sunlight per day. The problem is this: the area with sun changes from the west side of the pool to the east throughout the day. So how can I capture sun all day long for heating purposes? Build a "roof with wheels"! Despite being 20' long, I can easily wheel this thing around by myself. The solar panels are connected to the pool with 1-1/4 flexible sump pump pipe. I originally T-ed this into my filter pump, but I found that trying to run it using the same pump as the filter created too much resistance for the filter to effectively clean the pool; so I purchased a separate 1.5 hp pump just for the heating system I also created a separate outlet and inlet for this system so that I could pull colder water from the top of the pool and push warm water in toward the bottom ( on opposite sides of the pool).It might seem complicated, but it really works well, and we've got it down to one move of the panels per day at about 1pm. If you can put these somewhere that the get sun most of the time, and provide sufficient throughput, you will not be disappointed!

The media could not be loaded.  Se instalo para calentarnuna piscina, ya había usado esta marca.Funcionan bien.

Got this system set up and installed only to find the check valve is leaking. So frustrating!!