About Electric Pool Heaters

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By Summer Augustina

If you want to know more about electric pool heaters, then this article will be a good place to start. I'm going to give you good overview of these heaters, their pros and their cons, and give you a link to a site where you can find out more about them.

The electric pool heater uses a technology very similar to the way that air conditioning works. It is essentially a heat pump which means that it moves heat from one place to another stop

These heaters take three energy from the air that surrounds them, and use compression to extract that heat and put it into the water that is circulating from your pool. This means that you are not generating the heat, simply moving it from one place to the other, which is much cheaper.

If you have looked at pool heat pumps before, you may have been struck by the high price. It is not unusual to find units costing $5000 or more, which seems extremely expensive when you compare it to the much cheaper gas powered heaters that are available on the market. However, the high price of installing one of these systems is offset by their very low running costs, which could save you as much as $2000 a year when compared to propane heaters.

When you look at it this way, you can see the electric power heaters are the more economic choice, as they only cost half of the price of a gas powered heater to run.

For these reasons, you should find that is an electric pool heater will pay for itself within three years, or less depending on your own area and climate. After this, you're making savings all the way.

Under cold conditions, however, electric pool heaters do not perform anywhere near as well as propane heaters do. They can only make use of the heat that already exists in the air, and when the air is cold, it doesn't have enough heat to warm your pool up to a nice comfortable temperature. When this happens, the heat from the heat pump is still valuable and prevents water from freezing, but it could be very unpleasant to swim in the water.

When this occurs, you have two options. One of them is to only use the pool during the warmer parts of the year. The other one is to use a secondary heater to supplement the heat from the electric pool heater to help it cope with the added load.

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