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Thanks @ajw22 Wondering if @ps0303 has a thought on this. He helped someone earlier in July with a gas flow issue.

@ajw22 @swamprat69 @1poolman1 So I have an update on this heater. I had a wedding in July and life got in the way of taking some next steps on this problem. But I borrowed a manometer and hooked it up to the valve today. I turned on the gas and found that the static pressure (the pressure...

Thanks @Pdxonthego1. I’ve had to put this on hold for a bit as my son just got married, but I’ll be tearing into this shortly. Not sure how the 206a compares to the pentair or if there is a similar “sping in the heater core of the bypass line” but it’s with checking out. I’m also wondering if...

What’s the best way to access the burner

@ajw22, I hear you on the job. I did clean up the grounds, and the electrical tape was some added sheathing when a mouse chewed on the wire some years ago. I re-did a couple of the connectors and the electrical tape is gone now. There were no breaks. Anyway, I'm not quite ready to throw in...

attached is a pic of the electrical. It has the 120 plug and the wires seem in good shape. There are a couple of electrical tape repairs I had to make when a mouse nested in their one winter. I am curious about how to deal with a potential air/gas adjustment @ajw22

I'll address @1poolman1 first. The vent screen is off because I wanted to see if the coils inside and if the chamber was filled with Crud/water. I put my iPhone in an shot some video just to make sure that there wasn't water or anything inside the chamber. Best I can tell, the chamber is good...

So here is an update to this issue. At the suggestion of @1poolman1 I checked the gas line for water (don't smoke :)), and all looked good. The cap to the gas trap looked brand new, gas flowed out normally and I could not detect any gurgling sounds or water dripping or anything out of the...

I saw a vid on this very thing. Its worth a try. The Pentair person I talked to suggested that there might be something wrong with the Thermal Regulator. But I'm going to do the gas test first.

Would opening the gas trap test that, or is that only for debris

I have a Pentair 200 pool heater on Natural gas. I had turned this heater on when I first opened the pool and it fired up well. Then I decided to power wash it as I was cleaning my deck. Bad idea. I killed the membrane pad. So I vacuumed and cleaned out the inside of the heater (with some...

Granted, these millivolt heaters are a bit old school. But I have seen a lot of debate on this forum about the cupro-nickle exchangers and I don't live in particularly windy conditions that would require a fan. Again, I'm not looking to have the latest bells and whistles and if I wanted energy...

I have an in-ground 22,000 gal. pool and I've been nursing an old Tropic Isle 200,000 millivolt heater for the past 4 years or so. It has done the job when it has worked, but this summer, I couldn't get it to work (valve, millivolt, etc. who knows). The exchanger is still in intact (no leaks)...