SunHeater Pool Heating System Two 2’ x 20’ Panels – Solar Heater for Inground and Aboveground Made of Durable Polypropylene, Raises Temperature, 6-10°F, S240U Black

I have 5 panels now, it has been 2 years and working well. It heats my pool greatly in the summer to my content I wish it would make it as warm in the winter but the planet does not work that way. I enjoy my pool now. Summer temp can be up to +34c and winter around+28

Beware. I installed only to find pinhole leak on middle of panel. No return and no customer service help with this product. Very dissatisfied

Perfect Thanks sorry I took so long to thank you!

I’ll try to stick to the info a purchaser might want to know.Pool used on: Intex XTR 12’ x 24’ above ground (8500 gallons, saltwater)Panel config: four 2x20 panels on garage roof, East facing w full sun 9 am to 6 pm. Approx 100 ft total distance to and from, using 1.5 HP Hayward pool pump. The system pumps about 400 gallons per hour.Heating resultsWe initially installed two panels last fall, and ran that a while before we decided to expand. Two would have been sufficient, but since we were already running a pump and the pressure was high we decided that four would perform better.I opened the pool from winterization in early March, when we were getting days that were highs of 70 and lows of 48 at night, UV peaking at six. The pool started at 55 degrees, and it only took 3-4 days running the system for 6 hours per day to get up to 70. From there, I was able to manage running it to get +8 degrees per day, losing 2-4 at night, working up to 80. Now our weather is sunny with daily temps of 55/72 and I’m running the system about 3-4 hours each morning to get from 78 to 84.Overall, these are great results that allow us to extend the season quite a lot in either direction. Also, running the system at night cools the water. It’s possible this will come in useful if we have any severe heat waves.Product performance: ADurability and quality: B+Overall, the panels are good quality. They come tightly rolled up and mishandling them could cause issues. We simply laid them out with some bricks on towels weighing them down, and after a week in the sun they were straight and ready to go up on the roof.The fittings require a lot of Teflon tape, but I expect that from this sort of product.Installation: BI wish the instructions were a little clearer. It comes with a variety of fittings and caps that were mostly intuitive, but not detailed well in the manual. It would also be nice if the company would provide more configurations. If I recall, the printed guide had a schematic for two panels and four without really specifying if they were rooftop or yard. It seems like their customers might have a variety of mounting/installation configurations, and it’d be nice for the manufacturer to post schematics for these on their website...such as a poolside or yard setup, or better guidance on securing these on a roof.That said, there are many online videos from people that can help someone design their system. I recommend viewing these in advance, because you may need some add’l minor hardware. I think mostly all we bought in addition to the provided hardware was some better brackets to bolt things down to protect from wind.Overall, we are very happy with the purchase. The system gives us moderate control over our water temp at a very low energy cost. We’re excited to have it for our second pool season.

Works great! Every setup will be different but mine seems to work great. No leaks.

Works great, but leaked all over the place at end of year 3.

Last night after the sun went down we were in our 88 degree water with visible steam rising from the surface. It was awesome. The average daily temp in PA where I live has been less than 70 degrees since we filled the pool and about 78 the past 4 days. Last year I might have been able to get the water temperature up to 78 this week had I been very meticulous with the solar cover. So I'm crediting these solar panels with a 10 degree improvement.The panels were actually the least expensive part of the project. All together I spent about $1000 for this set up, but I had a lot of fun doing it. My house is too far away from the pool to run pipe through the yard and up to the roof. The pool gets only about 4-5 hours of sunlight a day, but the area around the pool gets up to 9 hours of sunlight per day. The problem is this: the area with sun changes from the west side of the pool to the east throughout the day. So how can I capture sun all day long for heating purposes? Build a "roof with wheels"! Despite being 20' long, I can easily wheel this thing around by myself. The solar panels are connected to the pool with 1-1/4 flexible sump pump pipe. I originally T-ed this into my filter pump, but I found that trying to run it using the same pump as the filter created too much resistance for the filter to effectively clean the pool; so I purchased a separate 1.5 hp pump just for the heating system I also created a separate outlet and inlet for this system so that I could pull colder water from the top of the pool and push warm water in toward the bottom ( on opposite sides of the pool).It might seem complicated, but it really works well, and we've got it down to one move of the panels per day at about 1pm. If you can put these somewhere that the get sun most of the time, and provide sufficient throughput, you will not be disappointed!

Sure would be nice if they came with all the parts. We received silver clamps but no elbows or caps.