"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 01:37:39 -0500, "Eisboch"
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"Don White" wrote in message
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What's the sense of having a pool heater if you're too cheap to use it?


When you see a layer of fog hanging over your pool in the morning, you
know
it's time to shut the heater off. Even a 150,000 BTU heater can't keep up
with losses due to evaporation.

Our pool has already frozen over.

150,000 BTUs?

You better get to working on that cold fusion generator.



I guess. When we put our pool in the standard heater for it's size was
85,000 BTU. We went for the optional 150,000 BTU unit. It was worth it,
but without a thermal blanket, it can't keep up when the night time temps
drop to the low 60's or 50's. It automatically shuts off at about 43
degrees ambient air temp to prevent freeze up.

Eisboch