FibroPool Swimming Pool Heat Pump - FH270 70,000 BTU - for Above and In Ground Pools and Spas - High Efficiency, All Electric Heater - No Natural Gas or Propane Needed

TL;DR This is a powerful, simple pool heater. It takes a few days to get to temperature mid-spring but then holds it easily. I never have to touch the settings after setting the temperature on day one. I love this thing and it's gotten me daily use of the pool I couldn't use at all in a cold June last year.A couple of important notes here: I bought this heater oversized for my 8,000 gallon above-ground pool to get more use out of it in upstate NY, where tall trees shade the pool and keep it colder.First: All you need to do is connect it and set the temperature for the water. Otherwise, no need to mess with the settings! It will run when your pump is running and shut off automatically when it's not.Second: If your pool water isn't getting hot it's probably a flow issue. Keep your filter and water returns clean. Low pump flow will make it hard to get enough water through to keep the water warm.

This heat pump pool heater is the best value that I found after lots of research. My inground pool is between 11 to 13 thousand gallons. I was initially concerned that this Fibro Heater at 55k btu might not be big enough for the job. Boy, was I wrong!! This compact sized heat pump raised the temperature in my pool from 77 degrees F, to 86° F after only 36 hours of pump runtime. I shut it and my pool pump down for 2 days during our last hurricane, but when we restarted everything the pool temp was back up to 86 after about 24 hours. The heater was easy to install and has an automatic set it and forget it operation. It’s only been in for about 2.5 weeks now so it’s still early to know how it will perform over the winter months in my part of Florida. However, if it continues to operate the way it has started out, I expect a no problem year round use of my pool.I’m delighted with this heater and it’s made here in America and will add value to my home and lifestyle going forward. I can easily recommend this Fibro Heat Pump pool heater to anyone who’s pool size and environmental factors fit within the performance parameters that this heater is designed for. I do recommend that you have this unit professionally installed.

After one year review. I always wait with reviews some time to completely test my purchases. This heater proved to me that it is well build and performing good. On top it is made in US by people who care. I contacted Fibropool company regarding error message with no flow code. After two emails new flow switches arrived!!! My set up may have some involvement with this problem, so I redesigned manifold to keep chlorinator inlet as far as I can of the unit. Usually I manually turned chlorinator of when pump was not running, but small amount of concentrated chlorine probably damaged flow switch anyway. I am using the pool year around in south Florida and with solar cover and heater the water is 85 degrees F all the time between November and March. I am swimming late afternoons or early evening and water is great. I am a contractor and I am definitely offering this product to all my customers.

I was very skeptical about ordering a pool heater online. But when I did all of my research against different types of heaters (Electrical, Natural Gas, Heat Pump) I kept turning up good comments about this unit. It came delivered by freight company on a wooden pallet. Upon opening the unit I realized I needed an electrician to run the proper connection for the unit as it requires a hard-line and doesn't have a plug. The electricians also commented it would have been nicer if the inlet for the unit was on the opposite side of the water outlets so the cable routing would make sense. Other than that, this is a very quiet unit. Typical air-conditioner level sound. It only took 2 days to get our pool up to 84 degrees and now helps the pool recover from a nightly 10 degree loss in about 3-4 few hours. Twice I've had some weird behavior of the unit after power failures, but rebooting the unit seemed to clear those errors.

So far I’m really impressed with this unit. Delivery was fast and the heater was packed well with a lot of foam padding and came completely undamaged. Setting the unit up was easy, it took me just a couple hours to do everything including driving the 8’ grounding rod, hopefully you already have one! Electrical was simple 3 wires inside the unit and connecting a dual 20A breaker in the sub box. The heater comes with a drain plug, hose for the plug, 2x 1.5” pipe connectors, vibration pads for the feet. There are some extra items that you will need to buy besides any Sced40 PVC pipe and fittings…Dual 20A breaker……$152 16x16x4 concrete blocks if no pad is present…$12Grounding rod if not present… $16Grounding clamp and wire…$5Flexible conduit with 12awg wire …$361.5”-2” 3 way valve … $35Once everything was connected, I started the pump, let it run all the air out, flipped on the breaker and everything started working! The system is surprisingly quiet, and supposedly set and forget, when the flow detector senses that the pump has shut off it should turn off the unit. And as a final plus, FibroPool is made in USA!!UPDATE - We are on the second season of running the heater and I am very satisfied! I knew this wasn’t going to be a year round heater, but it has added several months on to our swim season. When I turned it on this spring in central Florida the daytime highs were in the 70’s and the lows were in the 50’s. It took about 4 days to bring the water temp from 65 degrees to 85 . We have a solar blanket to keep the heat in at night. For the price this is an excellent unit and I highly recommend it!!