Our 3 year old heater failed (I think we got to the bottom of it), and the guy we use to open/close the pool recommended getting the same model to simplify installation. The documentation even put the connections at the same height as our current one.
Now I'll be honest we really didn't want the same heater again, but we bought it anyways, and now we're about 1/2"
My thought is it just needs to be replumbed to do it the right way, especially since we were going to have a salt cell installed where the longer stretch of pipe is later this summer. Since this was just re-plumbed 3-years ago the pool guy doesn't wasn't to waste the stuff thats there and thinks cutting on the heater side of the valves and reaming out the fittings and re-using them will be the way to go. as it would be a minimum change.
Personally I'm not convinced all the salt stuff will fit on that longer run, and it's probably going to need to be re-worked anyways.
So how would you approach this? My thought is:
1. cut after the unused anode and put a union in there (there is already a union off picture on the center pipe coming off the filter as well). That way if we change the heater in the future we can just unscrew and rework that piece of pipe.
2. Rework the entirety of that long pipe with everything it needs for the salt cell
3. Front bottom right elbow going to the longer pipe - rotate 90 degrees clockwise and add an extra elbow allowing us to fit the salt generator equipment (I'm guessing I need to support this pipe some how?)
4. Replace the bottom valve with a 3-way valve for the heater, lose the top two valves, and replace one with a check-valve
Would this work, or is there a better approach?
Now I'll be honest we really didn't want the same heater again, but we bought it anyways, and now we're about 1/2"
My thought is it just needs to be replumbed to do it the right way, especially since we were going to have a salt cell installed where the longer stretch of pipe is later this summer. Since this was just re-plumbed 3-years ago the pool guy doesn't wasn't to waste the stuff thats there and thinks cutting on the heater side of the valves and reaming out the fittings and re-using them will be the way to go. as it would be a minimum change.
Personally I'm not convinced all the salt stuff will fit on that longer run, and it's probably going to need to be re-worked anyways.
So how would you approach this? My thought is:
1. cut after the unused anode and put a union in there (there is already a union off picture on the center pipe coming off the filter as well). That way if we change the heater in the future we can just unscrew and rework that piece of pipe.
2. Rework the entirety of that long pipe with everything it needs for the salt cell
3. Front bottom right elbow going to the longer pipe - rotate 90 degrees clockwise and add an extra elbow allowing us to fit the salt generator equipment (I'm guessing I need to support this pipe some how?)
4. Replace the bottom valve with a 3-way valve for the heater, lose the top two valves, and replace one with a check-valve
Would this work, or is there a better approach?
