SmartPool S240U Universal Sun Heater, 4 by 20-Feet

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SmartPool S240U Universal Sun Heater, 4 by 20-Feet

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Pool heated to 87 degrees on sunny days. Area around the pool gets 9 hours of sunlight per day. If you have a roof you can get your pool heated just fine with this system. On sunny days, this heater will have 8-10 degrees of temperature gain.

Water at the bottom is still chillier than that but these things work! Built a manifold to run both heaters on separate loops. Water is about 10 degrees warmer after circulating through the panels. Will save you a ton of money over gas heating system.... Read More

The inexpensive pump, does a terrific job! I use a 1000 gal pump to feed the panels which are on my roof.

I have a 7800 gal 'portable' pool, that's hard-plumbed. Pool used intex xtr 12’ x 24’ above ground (8500 gallons, saltwater) panel four 2x20 panels on garage roof, east facing w full sun 9 am to 6 pm.

Putting them in the sun to flatten them out over a few days helps. Another tip - put at least 3 or 4 layers of teflon tape around each joint. It seems like their customers might have a variety of mounting/installation configurations, and it'd be nice ... Read More

Cons

Slow pump to not overwhelm the solar heater. Worked well for 2 summers. It always leaks somewhere.

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Highlights

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Quality

Overall we are very happy with the purchase

So for a week into use im thrilled with the product today

We are having some issues with the white cap ends leaking that we cannot get fully stopped

Sunheater you really need better quality control and update those installation directions cause it doesnt work efficiently at a... Read More

Packaging/appearance

From reading reviews i notice some people run extensive piping so they could put their panels on a fence roof out of the whatetc

Competitiveness

I hooked it up to a spare intex pool pump i wasn’t using and it works fine

Not big enough for our pool 32x16

I recommend viewing these in advance because you may need some add’l minor hardware

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This product had a total of 530 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 23 2023.