CoffeeBean
04-10-2011, 03:57 PM
No advice on my last heater question. I'll try again. Anyone have any experience with a natural gas Pentair MasterTemp heater? I need to replace my Hayward H200 or go nuts. Thanks
Watermom
04-10-2011, 05:21 PM
Now we can't have people going nuts around here :eek: so somebody who knows about these heaters needs to pop in here with some advice! Good to see you back around here this season, CB!
waste
04-11-2011, 12:43 PM
Hey CB, good to see you around!:)
I'm not very familiar with Pentair heaters, but they acquired Sta-Rite (which I've worked on for years) and have very similar innards.
Going from my Sta-Rite experience, the biggest issue was mice nesting in them and chewing the wires (the Pentairs have a much less 'mice friendly' set up). The second biggie was heat exchangers rotting out from the pool water being acidic - not an issue for you as a tried and true BBBer. :cool:
May I ask why the Hayward heater is gonna drive you nuts? (new heaters are expensive and usually require some sort of replumbing - if you can keep the old one going, you could save some coin :D)