Pool Heater

[Linda23]

I have a Laars Lite 2 LG natural gas pool heater made by Jandy. It is a little over one year old and the burners shut down sometimes after a few minutes. My home is services by natural gas from a gas well which means it is raw natural gas. It started after the well tender serviced the gas well earlier in the summer and I am wondering if it could be the gas pressure. Does anyone know if there is some time of a switch inside that pool heater that would shut the burners off if the gas pressure was too high? I put in a call to our plumber to come and check but he hasn't made it down here yet. We have had pressure problems in the past so our furnace has a regulator on it and our hot water tank had the gas pressure lowered for that same purpose. I would be interested in any other pool owners experience with this brand of pool heater. Thanks, Linda

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I have a Laars Lite 2 LG natural gas pool heater made by Jandy. It is a little over one year old and the burners shut down sometimes after a few minutes. My home is services by natural gas from a gas well which means it is raw natural gas. It started after the well tender serviced the gas well earlier in the summer and I am wondering if it could be the gas pressure. Does anyone know if there is some time of a switch inside that pool heater that would shut the burners off if the gas pressure was too high? I put in a call to our plumber to come and check but he hasn't made it down here yet. We have had pressure problems in the past so our furnace has a regulator on it and our hot water tank had the gas pressure lowered for that same purpose. I would be interested in any other pool owners experience with this brand of pool heater. Thanks, Linda

Natural gas heater should have a regulator on them. Gas pressure is important and left alone could damage the heater. There is no switches inside the heaters for gas pressure. If it to high it will still burn but not very effcient. If it to low the gas valve will shut off and stop the heating

[Linda23]

Thanks for your input. I am waiting on our plumber to come down to check the gas pressure and all of the switches inside the heater. I also set up a work order for the pool dealer to send someone out to check it. We are third in line. I expect someone to be here next week either way. We opened up the side panel and watched the burners. They are a nice blue flame, but the pilot looks really large compared to them. Anyway, it should be taken care of next week. We put a solar cover on it last night to keep some of the heat from escaping. The pool water was 85 degrees on Tuesday, but it rained all Tuesday night so the water temp went down to 76. Even with the heater running the pool water only went up to 82 with the rain all day Wednesday and Thursday. We ran out and bought a solar cover last night so it only lost 2 degrees over night and the heater is running now. Now we just have to deal with getting a large solar cover off of the pool when we want to go in. I am going to look for some of those large J hooks to hang the cover on against the outside of the pool wall once it is removed.