Any one know of a heater I can use for my spa?

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So we have this really old spa, but we like it a lot and do not want to get a knew one because the family likes the tile and whatever. lol. So I wanted to know if their is a heater that is like compatible with older spas? Like one that floats on in the water and heats it or something.



No one makes the heater that we have, and it no longer works. Everything else is in perfect condition, but it would be nice to have a spa with heat at night.

Thats all, links would be nice to! lol

Thank you all!

Comments

  1. davisgeo33 says:
    June 11, 2009 at 4:47 am

    Ok, here you go. my spa did not come with a typical electric heater. My spa has a heat capture device. Let me explain. First my spa was heated by a heat exchanger that recovered the heat that is generated from the pump motor. The pump motor has a ton of wasted heat. This exchanger was made of plastic and was molded to sit over the upper part of the motor. The recovery device had an inlet and an outlet. The inlet was fed by tubing from the bottom of the pump (pump drain) and the outlet was fed to the discharge piping of the pump. The only thing is the original recovery device had developed a leak and the replacement got a leak also. So, I had made a home made one out of a length of soft copper tubing. I wrapped it around the motor and hooked it to the inlet and outlet tubing. Make sure you wrap the motor as good as possible in insulation to hold in the heat. I used regular wall fiberglass insulation. This worked great! You will have to come up with a way to incorporate the inlet and outlet tubing. The only thing else I would do is make sure your using a good GFI plug just to make sure you dont ever ground out the motor to the copper tubing.

  2. GERALD G says:
    June 11, 2009 at 4:47 am

    Go to your local "SPA" dealer!!

  3. Bill F says:
    June 11, 2009 at 4:47 am

    Try spaguts.com – they should be able furnish an inline heater that will work for you.

  4. PEACE says:
    June 11, 2009 at 4:47 am

    That's funny I was just talking to my GF about that.
    We too have an older one too and the heater was defunct.
    I rebuilt the heater using a hot water heater element and a piece of 1 1/2" pipe, which worked OK but was not cost effective.
    I am going to make a wood fired heater with copper tubing and a piece of stove pipe.
    1 presto log will burn for appx. 3-4 hours and that is just about what it takes to heat the water from 45 degrees to 106.
    We shall see. 8-)

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