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I am curious to hear from any other seasoned techs who are working with Balboa Heaters alot. I service Master Spas for warranty work and see a significant number of failing Balboa heaters, most within less than 2 years of installation. Always leaking up around the brass nuts and shorting the terminals to ground. In my 35 years I have not seen any other brand of heaters fail like Balboa. I also know that brass is not a metal of choice around chlorinated water. And Balboa is the ONLY heater manufacturer to start using brass nuts on their heaters. I deal more with soft water in our area, but in the majority of failures I have serviced, chemistry was not the issue. In most of these cases, the only deterioration evident was just around the brass nuts. In those few cases where water chemistry was off, there was other evidence to show that as the likely cause, but those were obviously involving some owner neglect. I rarely see this problem on any other brand of flow through heaters. I replace several a month for exactly the same issue and its always Balboa and rarely older than 1-2 years. In some cases, the replacements have also failed within 4-6 months, for exactly the same issue. In cases where warranty was up, I replaced the elements with aftermarket and never had a repeat. So clearly this has to be a known issue... Of course getting Master Spas to tell me their defect numbers is not going to happen... SO... Does anyone else out there have an opinion (or facts) to share regarding this? -
I have an (to me) odd issue with an OHH code that keeps popping back up. Temp is set to 102F. It´s a Balboa system with a 3kW heater. What I have tried: Changing filter Running without a filter All jets on Changed water When water was changed, tried to flush between filten to where the hot water comes out into the tub Verified that circ pump works (I can feel and see water coming out in the tub) After the water was changed, it did get up in temp but then ended up with OHH again. I was thinking that maybe the circ pump sometimes failed to start, but I then changed so that the circ pump was running 24/7. This worked for roughly 30 hours before another OHH. It is now fall here in Sweden, with temps around 40-45F. My current ideas are pretty much 1) still the circ pump, 2) the header or sensors therein or 3) the circuit board. Don´t know where to go from here though - I don´t want to by a part by chance. Any other tests I can do? Thanks!
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Keys backyard Madrid 60 jet spa with Balboa Heater will not turn on. Control panel says "heater may be dry." What do I do? I had drained jacuzzi and may possibly have gotten air in the line. I opened 2 inch flex bolt on side of heater to release water but that did nothing. HELP PLEASE