BWAY POOL HEATER

Easy to install. Works very quick. Will recommend

I spent a lot of time reading though reviews of this before I bought it. They were a mixed bag so I was a little worried. I’ve written a long review but please bear with, I’d have found this information helpful when trying to decide whether to buy it and when trying to set it up.Once we got it set up properly (more on that below) I can safely say this is one of the best investments we’ve ever made and the kids LOVE it.So...The heater arrived faster than expected, well packaged and came with all parts and instructions. We have a 10 ft Bestway quick up pool which came with a pump and cover. I understood from the other reviews that the cable for the heater needed to be plugged in to a different socket from the pump. We don’t yet have outdoor plug sockets installed, so we bought two “outdoor“ extension cables and plugged them into separate parts of the house so they’re on different circuits (one off the living room and one off the kitchen). We’ve also ensured that nothing else is plugged into the same socket and that the extension cables are fully un-rolled.We got the pump set up with no issue.Setting the heater up is more difficult due to the instructions not being particularly clear. It makes reference to pressing the reset button to test the appliance and only using it if it flashes green. It took a good hour of frustration before we realised that the green light is on the control panel of the heater itself and not on the plug switch - that will always glow an orange-red colour. Next confusion was thinking that the Ed message on the heater control panel was an error message. Turns out this is just the heater’s way of telling you it’s ready. Once you see that, the next step is to push and hold the little power symbol on the heater below the control panel and it turns from Ed to On. At this point your pump needs to already be running and connected to your heater in order for the heater to work.The temperature takes 24 hours at least to build up due to it being a large mass of water. We have no thermometer to test it, but it feels like a few degrees colder than a bath, so is perfect even on slightly colder days.We also bought the bubble-wrap solar cover to keep the heat in when the pool isn’t in use. We turn the filter and heater on once the kids are out, we leave them on overnight, add chlorine and check ph balance (and adjust as necessary) the following morning, turn off the pump & heater about lunch time and the kids spend a good 4-5 hours playing before we put it all to bed again for the evening.The pump and heater are both fine to be left out in the garden as they are water-proof. We’ve wrapped the extension plugs in bags and hung them up so they’re not at ground level just to make it a bit safer. We’ve had no issues with over-heating of power sockets or extension plugs.I highly recommend this product. It’s going to get masses of use over lockdown and we’ve even put our Coleman’s event shelter over the pool for the days that are a bit more chilly or wet.

UK user.I have a 15ft bestway pool, that was 18 degrees. whilst outside temperature was approx 20-22 degrees. Setup was pretty straight forward. I have a bubble wrap cover that I would definitely also recommend. I switched on the pool heater for 36 hours, during this time the pool was never used and so the cover remained on. The Pool temperature went from 18 degrees to 28 degrees. It cost about £6.00 extra a day to run for 24 hours. The heater SHOULD be switched OFF during use! - I have used the heater sparingly, when the weather has been sunny, leaving it on for NO longer than 48 hours at a time - the Pool temperature has hit 32 degrees, which is warm enough to just jump in! - I have also tried leaving the heater OFF, using just the bubble wrap cover, the temperature went from 31 degrees to 26 degrees over a two day period. The pool wasn't used during this time, so if the cover had been removed, it may have decreased more.I am very happy with this product, as a cheap cost alternative, I have seen other heaters advertised for between £250 and £1200, so this is an affordable solution that works surprisingly well on a 15 ft pool - I would expect it to work even better on smaller pools!Whilst the description and manual state NOT to be used with an Extension Lead. I had no real option but to use this with a heavy duty extension lead, ensuring that it was fully unwound and capable of 3.2KW. The heater uses 2.8KW. The heater has its own RCD built in - I have also plugged the extension lead into it's own socket with another RCD. After 48 hours of use, the extension cable was barely warm. The RCD in the plug socket was slightly warmer - but I check things frequently to ensure that I remain happy.It is imperative that the extension lead is FULLY unwound (my extension lead is ONLY 700KW when wrapped up, which would be VERY dangerous!!!) and that you do your own research and testing etc.

First I was sceptical, I’ve got a 15ft steel framed pool. The water was only 10 when I filled it up. It’s now 22 after two days ( and I turn everything off @ 6 @ night and back on @ 9 in the morning) I do have bubble wrap on top of the water, that’s pretty much what it is! and a cover. One thing !!! you can not plug the filter and the heater into the same extension or plug socket as it will overload and trip.

After reading previous reviews i had concerns about the safety of this device. turns out to be fine. Please check out that previous reviewer that had a melted plug... and just look at the photos carefully, they were using an old 10AMP extension (facepalm).So the heater will heat a 10ft pool of ~4500litres in 1-2 days of constant operation, ~£10 a day (3 KwH x 24 hours x 0.19p unit rate = £13.68) so its not cheap to run, but typically i will only use it prior to a hot weekend of weather, so ~£20-25 for a weekend of kids play all day is money well spent IMO.(in hindsight, if i had more money to invest, i would look at HEATPUMP technologies as these can drastically reduce operating costs by upto 6x, but cost min ~£500, so a bigger inital outlay.)To get a extension cable that worked, i used "Masterplug Weatherproof Electric Box for Outdoors with Four Socket 10 Metre Extension Lead" which came with a 4 socket 13AMP plug (1.25mm^2). this could run the Heater AND the pump, but be aware that this is close to the limit of the power draw, so do not plug other things into this socket box.The heater has a flow sensor so if the flow is too low (blocked filters) then the heating stops and it beeps, so the unit is very safe... but this did reveal to me that the cheapest filter pump that came with the pool wasn't upto the task on flow, so i got a bigger ~3000litre/hour filtre pump for ~£35 and this fixed the issue.TLDR - Great unit, takes 1-2 days to heat a pool (>£10 a day of elecky), just be aware of the power it needs, use NEW 13AMP extension of minimum 1.25mm^2 cable thickness.

Do not waste your money on this,absolutely ridiculous I purchased this last week attached to a Bestway 8 ft pool everything set up perfectly plug just reached my outside plugs from the garage done.Switched on and waited and waited and waited and waited ?Using a very accurate water temp sensor readings water temp 22 centigrade outlet temp from heater 24 centigrade SORRY is this some kind of Joke ❗️After 24 hours with heater left on rated at 2.800 watts my meter suggest for 1 days this costs around £15 to run times that by 90 days a quarter What how much you say❗️and for what in 24 hours the pool temp rose from 22 to 23.8 centigrade Absolutely Unbelievable waste of money I expected the water to be at least warm exciting the heater NO.