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After doing some additional reading on this forum it looks like the Raypak is a great choice due to it not having a blower motor and only one circuit board. I'll probably go with the cupro-nickel since someone mentioned thin tubing on the standard models. Warranty is only one year but that should be long enough to determine if I got a lemon. Control boards are on Craigs List for 200 so I feel good about this unless somebody can tell me otherwise.

It's been challenging to choose a heater based on conversations with pool equipment retailers. From what I've read, some retailers will have an incentive from the manufacturer to recommend a particular model over another. Also, a lot of people in the pool service industry still have a bad taste regarding logic boards going out even though the problem has been resolved supposedly. It seems every installer/service tech has their favorite brand whether it be the amount of time it takes to move the controls from one side to the other or something else but if the quality is apples to apples should I just choose the least expensive? Raypak, Pentair, and Hayward all seem to be at about the same price point. Thanks for any further clarification or insite.