This Laars Lite pool heater has seen the end of its life, sadly to say it was only 10 years old. The really unfortuate part is that this appeared to be the 3rd pool heater replacemnt since the pool was installed. Fortuantly at this time my customer wanted to do more than just heat the pool, he also wanted to heat the pool room and he did not want to have to replace the heater in another 10 years.
Existing Laars Lite pool heater
I’m not use to dealing with pool heaters, but after seeing what kind of corrosion can occur I do not understand why pool owners still use them. Now it could be this is a lower quality of pool heater?
Laars Lite corrosion
Never the less my customer did not want a repeat. I proposed using a Burham ES27 boiler with a Triangle Tube MF-135 heat exchanger to heat their pool. This way we have a closed loop system that heats water with water. The pool water will never be introduced into the boiler system. The ES27 is 85% AFUE and is atmospheric, and because its cast iron … its built to last.
Burham ES27 Boiler
Being a cast iron boiler the Burham ES27 did weigh considerably more than the Laars Lite pool heater, fortunately I did have help on this day… I just didn’t feel like wrestling 460lbs all by myself.
Boiler Loop
If you can make it out the Triangle Tube MF-135 heater exchanger is the black cylinder just to the left and down from center. Its hard to believe a small cylinder like that could heat an entire pool. We control the pool loop with a Ranco controller.
Modine Heater
Now for the pool room itself, we installed a Modine HC-108 hot water fan coil. We ran a separate loop off the boiler into the room. We control this with an Honeywell 4000 thermostat. Now for you people that know what a pool room can do to copper … we actually coated everything with a high heat clear coat paint.
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Triangle Tube was not my first pick for a boiler for this project, but I had to look at all the requirements. The boiler had to be high efficient, I had to get it vented out with PVC, I had to separate the combustion air from the exhaust venting and I had to do all this in a very confined place. Triangle Tube met all the above.
Older American Standard Boiler
The American Standard boiler had failed, there where several minor issues that could have been resolved but our customer wanted an upgrade. The house was built in the late 30’s and even though the customer feels that this boiler was original I’m thinking its was put in a few decades later.
New Triangle Tube Boiler
The triangle Tube boiler fit like a glove, in fact I was within inches of making this a unsuccessful install. I forgot who told me this great advice … “a tape measure never lies” you have to read into it to understand why its called advice.
The boiler comes with its own primary pump but lacks a external pump control, besides the obvious hydronic devices I had to ad a transformer and a relay to make a complete system. The boiler mounts on the wall similar to the Navien tankless. Overall I’m really happy I got to install one of these boilers.
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