Waterco Heat Pumps - How it works

A swimming Pool is a major financial investment. To get the most for your money, a pool should be used as much as possible and this means keeping the pool at a swimmable temperaturew for the maximum number of hours in each day and the maximum number of days in each year.

A Heat pump is built to heat your pool economically 24hrs a day, maintaining your desired pool water temperature.

HOW A HEAT PUMP WORKS

Electroheat extracts heat energy from the surrounding air and transfers the heat energy to the water of the swimming pool. Electroheat works like a reversed air conditioner, using an evaporator, a compressor, and condenser to heat water instead of cooling air.

Step 1 Capture The fan circulates air through the outer evaporator coil that acts as a heat collector and absorbs heat from the ambient air. The liquid refrigerant in the air coil absorbs the available heat in the air transforming it to a gas. Step 2 Transfer The compressor then recieves the warmed refrigerant and intensifies the heat. The intensely hot refrigerant is then pumped into the heat exchanger (condenser). Step 3 Heat Exchange The heat from the hot refrigerant flowing inside the heat exchanger is then transferred to the pool water, via the surface of the heat exchanger's coils. Step 4 The cycle begins again The refrigerant is then ready to restart the process and flows into the evaporator air coil to collect heat again.

Low Running Costs

ElectroHeat will keep your pool water warm 24hrs a day without the need to worry about your energy bills.

Due to their high efficiency, heat pumps have low running costs. Heat pumps only require energy to operate a compressor and a fan motor, using low amperage in the process.

The ElectroHeat produces up to five times more heat energy than the electrical power it consumes.

This means for every 1Kw of electricity consumed, ElectroHeat can produce up to 5Kw of heat.

An ElectroHeat will offer you significant operationg cost savings versus fossil fuel heaters. Save up to 80% over propane gas, 50% over natural gas and over 500% against electric heaters.

General Considerations

The ElectroHeat is designed to economically heat a pool maintaining the desired water temperature at all times. The ElectroHeat will effectively heat your pool when the ambient air temperature reaches 10 centigrade or more. ElectroHeats performance will fluctuate depending on water and weather temperatures.

The ElectroHeat, at the start, will heat slowly but at 21c and more, it will perform well maintaining the desired water temperature at a very low cost and could run as little as 2 hours per day in the process.

Between 10c to 18c, it will increase your water temperature by 3c to 5.5c a day. Over 21c you should obtain an increase up yo 0.8c an hour and over 26c up to 1.1c an hour depending on the size of the pool, the size of the heat pump, the water temperature, and the ambient temperature at the moment of operation.

ElectroHeat is capable of heating water up to a temperature of 35c and more if required, depending on water and ambient air temperature at the time of operation.