Heat Pumps and Ordinary Electric Pool Heaters From Elecro Engineering

If a Heat Pump is too much for your initial budget why not buy an ordinary electric pool heater. The choice is between the Analogue Controlled  "Evolution" Heater and the Digital "In-Line+" Heater.  If you have a salt water chlorinator you need the Titanium version, otherwise the Stainless Steel version will do. As for size - within reason buy the biggest power rating you can afford - a more powerful heater will heat your pool up quicker. 

For the entire Elecro Heater range see Elecro 2008 Products Brochure (472KB) These prices are RRP before vat.  We offer a 20% discount on the RRP inc vat price.

ALTO HEAT PUMPS

Details of these entry level  Summer-only Heat Pumps priced at £1500 and £1980 can be found on the Doughboy page.

HEAT PUMPS FROM CALOREX

 Calorex Heat Pumps are made in the U.K. in Maldon Essex and are tried and tested machines. Our works perfectly.  Manufacturers from the Far East have unfortunately in recent years, been allowed to come into the lower and middle market for heat pumps.  Our preference now is for the Florida made heat pump imported by Elecro, especially the Reverse Cycle models which will give good heat capture when air temperatures are quite low at the beginning and end of the season 

Costly to buy, but relatively cheap to run, as opposed to ordinary electric heaters which are "cheap to buy but so expensive you try not to use it"

Our sits underneath the deck and heats the 12 foot diameter Doughboy all year round drawing some of its air intake from inside the Pleasure-Dome ® enclosure. Heat pumps draw in relatively warm air, extract the heat from it and expel much colder air. The heat acquired is transferred to the pool water. The AW820 only operates down to 7 degrees centigrade which meant that it was only able to operate on the warmest days in  December and January. On cold winter nights it was prevented from freezing by circulating warm pool water through it.  Standard procedure for this model though would be to drain it down before the cold weather starts. (The pool temperature was kept up on cold winter days by an ordinary 11 kw electric heater) The unit is oversized for heating in the height of summer, and only needs to be on for a short period of time to warm the pool. The same amount of heat takes a longer time to achieve in winter. A temperature of 32° C can be achieved by say 1 1/2 hours in Summer, but more like 4 hours in Winter. The same sort of performance would be provided by the 710X model which will work down to 0° C, or the all-year-round 910 Y model which will work down to -15° C. The makers give an actual power consumption of 2.4kw for the AW830 which with a 5 times heat gain could be as much as 12kw equivalent output in the height of Summer.  The unit needs up to 15.7 amps on start-up and like all pool electrics requires its own protected circuit installed by a qualified electrician.