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.


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 )