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Getting warmer: making sure your facility has the right-sized heater can mean the difference between many warm returns and the cold shoulder. Here's what you need to know.

Aquatics International

| May 01, 2005 | Dumas, Bob | COPYRIGHT 2005 Hanley-Wood, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Heating pools has gotten pretty complicated these days. With the swim team wanting a different temperature than the water therapy group, and the regular swimmers wanting yet another temperature, operators have their hands full just trying to keep everyone happy.

That's hard enough to do under the best of circumstances. But if your heaters aren't properly sized and configured, you'll never be able to reach the right temperature. Fortunately, helpful formulas exist to help you do just that.

Of course, it's not as simple as plugging in a few numbers. You also need to consider the two main jobs of a heater: heat maintenance and heater start-up.

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