4721-BB SolarPRO Curve Solar Pool Heater, Made for Intex & Bestway Above-Ground and Inground Pools, Includes Intex Adapters, 2 Hoses & Clamps

I bought this solar panel for a above ground 15 ft round pool. This thing has been great! After 1 day it was keeping the pool at 82 and by day 4 the pool was up to near 90! I will say that if you want to keep that heat though, you must have a solar cover so that your heat doesn't dissipate to badly at night. The last two days, we have had very little sun and cooler temps in low 70's and the pool was still sitting between 80 and 82. Our pump is also less than 1hp so the water flows through it at a pretty decent rate and still warms up nicely as it goes through the coils. Some things to note though The hoses are not long at all, so if the panel needs to be placed somewhere away from the pump in order to get full sun, you will need to buy longer hoses. We have an Intex sand filter and had to get creative at the local big box home improvement store to make adapters to accommodate longer hoses. No stars dinged for that though, because if you just used everything that came with it and you are able to put it right near the pump, you wouldn't have to do anything special. Mentioning this though because many people will be at the mercy of where the sun shines and you will most likely need longer hoses. Did I mention the sun.. because you will need full sun for the better part of the day if you want to see those pool temps rise. If your panel is only getting sun for a couple hours, your going to have a bad time. Our panel gets a full 8 hours of sun where it sits and our pump runs 6 to 8 hours during that time. Partly sunny days keep it at 82 to 86, full sun days get's our pool near 90, and cloudy days it can drop to 80 if overcast conditions last a few days. If you have a bigger pool, invest in more than one of these. One of these heats our 15 ft pool nicely, but I would think that if you have something bigger than a 18 ft or even a oval pool, 2 would be your best option. The longer the water stays in the coils, the more it will heat your pool. I know I mentioned it up top but it is worth mentioning again, you need to have a solar cover. A solar cover is not just for helping heat your pool, it's best use is for keeping that hard earned solar heated warmth in at night. You can easily lose like 5 degrees of heat at night without a cover. If you have this panel and it never seems to get warm or stay warm and you don't have a good solar cover, that's not the panel's fault... that is your fault for letting all that wonderful heat escape into the night. Overall, this panel delivers as long as you do your part to make sure it can do it's job.

After about a year pin holes form under the panel on both units I bought. They are not resting on the ground as I keep them on an angle using the adjustable legs. First summer no problems and it did work as it raised the temperature of the pool about 10 degrees. Late last summer one of the units developed a pin hole. I marked the hole, drained the water and used a soldering iron tip to manipulate the plastic and it sealed the hole. It did give way but I used the same method and was able to fix the hole. This summer both units developed larger holes to the extent that my water level in the pool was below the skimmer line. Good thing we were home and noticed or I would be looking for a new filter pump. Today I disconnected both. Basically they lasted a little short of three years however , this is the time of year when cooler nights in New England are beginning and warming the pool during the day is the only way that we will get in the pool in September. I would not recommend these. I had used the coil version of the solar heaters and those had the same issue over time. I attribute it to the chlorine in the water weakening the plastic walls of the solar tubes.

I love this thing!!! I have a 10 x 18 Intex oval above ground pool that my wife bought last summer with a saltwater chlorinate system. Last year it was very brisk to get into, you almost got use to it after a few but it was cold. I had to get something to heat it up this year and ordered this Game SolarPRO Curve. The pool has two water draw ports for the pump and one output to the pool. I hooked up the heater between the end draw port of the pool and the splitter that connects the two draw lines. This made it so only half the recerculation water is passing through the heater. My yard is very shady and it only gets sun for about 5 to 6 hours a day. This year I also bought a pool thermometer to see how cold it was. After filling, the pool was about 70 degrees, after a week and a half the pool is up to 80 degrees. I have the filter pump on a timer to start running at 7:30 in the morning and shut off at 6:30 in the afternoon. I had to get a couple of hose clamps to make it work and it has a small leak (maybe a cup a day) that needs to be fixed between the Intex hose and the Game hose. I am planning on putting a sleeve in the line so I can tighten the hose clamp down better. The only criticism I have for this is, they could give better instructions and parts to make it work for the most common pools. To make this work for My pool it took two hose clamps and a hard plastic 1 1/4" sleeve that were not in the box, and some thinking. One other thing that would make this product perfect is a bleed off valve at the top so there are no air pockets trapped in the heater that could cause blockages. I just had to tip it back and forth to get all the air out.

I purchased two of these qand set them up in series on my 20,000 gallon in ground pool, running off of the main pump through the water feature. The output was quite warm but not sufficient in volume to increase trhe temperature of the pool very much. As I increased the flow, the output temparature dropped, because the water didn'[t spend enough time in the heater. I was able to use the pool about 10 days longer than usual in the autumn. The original fittings that came with the pool did not fit correctly. The company supplied correct ones immediately. I would recommend this item for smaller, above-ground pools. Noter: The price of this item seems very erratic.

I purchased a solar panel two years ago and one leg broke off within a month. Month later the other broke so I had to set three bricks underneath to prop it up. Also had two major leaks underneath in the second year. Purchased a brand new one this year and the legs lasted one week. Both broke. This issue is that the legs are made of cheap aluminum. When the panel sets up, the legs are on a slant towards the read of the panel. The weight of the water forces the legs out even further and the legs just bend and snap off. There is a lot of water weight that runs through the tubes that are supported by the legs and the legs can withhold the weight. As far as the item working, yes, it works great. It does what it is supposed to do. I just wouldn't buy another until they fix the issue with the legs always breaking off. It has a 90 day warranty so I am going to test it out. UPDATE: Submitted a claim and never heard back. Wouldn't recommend purchasing from this company.

I purchased two of these for my new pool. I've had them for about three weeks and so far no issues. The 4-star rating is for the insanely cheap and poorly designed tubing and connectors and the poorly designed legs that they have. Because of the cheap legs, I built a support structure to take the weight off the legs (not shown in photos). I did read many of the reviews and hesitated to purchase these because of the problems with leaking, etc. When I first took these out of the boxes and looked at the components, I almost sent them back unused. Then after considering the cost of return shipping, I decided to keep them. I hooked them up, using great care and every plumbing trick I know to make them work.... and they do... without leaks. I used a very large amount of silicone to make each connection (I connected two together). As you can see in the photo, I allowed the silicone to ooze out of the connection and seal itself around the connection. I also used Teflon tape. I let the silicone dry for 36 hours before pumping water through the hoses and to my surprise... no leaks. Because of some unusually hot weather where I live, I have not needed to use these everyday. When you touch them, they feel hot from the sun and I'm sure the water running through them warms my pool when needed, but again, I have not noticed the difference too much with the hot weather. I'm sure when August rolls around and we start having 50 degree nights, I will use them everyday and will notice they do work as intended. For now, after reading all the lousy reviews, I am just happy with no leaks. Despite the poor construction of the components, I believe you can make these work if you take the time and do it right. Could they be better? Absolutely.

So far these are great I installed two of them and have been getting about +3 degrees each day. I have an in ground pool 11,500 gal so for me I had to get a bypass kit. In fact I purchased 2 of them. I got the older one from Game with the valve and the new one to. I do not like the new one that Game has listed because you can't by pass the heater with the new kit. This is important for non-sunny days or running your filter at night as the panels will cool your pool off if run at night. Proper bypass is important because if the water goes through to fast it wont heat. I have a 1.5 Haywood HP Super Pump. I also like the old kit as it gives you a pressure gauge and shows the correct pressure going to the heaters in green. DIY people with a little skill will have no problems setting this up. One thing to note is if you want to do a hard line installation the parts are ABS plastic not PVC so make sure you have a cement that can weld PVC to ABS. I went with a rubber collar instead for now. I do have a few drips out of the ABS bypass valve even with Teflon tape so I may weld those parts in at some point in the future but so far I am very happy with these. I had a roof mounted system on another home a few years ago and it worked great, but it got holes in it from a neighbor shooting fireworks in their yard and it really didn't look nice having it on the roof and it seemed to get holes in it every year. That companies only fix was to cut a tube and put in a metal screw to stop the flow into the part with the hole, before long I had a bunch of screws in my panels so I like that these are on the ground have the clear plastic to help trap heat in ,but also protect the tubes from fireworks.

Purchased 2 of these to work in a daisy chain - needs a diverter to split off some filter output flow to the heaters Geography: Midwest Pool size: 13' diameter, 28" deep, above ground, Jacuzzi 1 HP sand filter, blue solar cover Summary - if you have a very shallow pool, use a solar pool cover, and do not have more than 1000 gallons, this will marginally help. For the same cost - building your own (see youtube) will yield far more BTUs than daisy chaining multiple units to generate meaningful BTUs and volume. In all fairness, the pool was in a 'summer' sunny location. In September, the night air temp would drop to 50-60's and the Sun's angle very quickly eroded 8+ hours of direct sun to 2-3 hours of low angle sun. This rendered the marginal volume of warmer than air water not being able to keep the pool warm enough to use. So the SolarPros were removed. Evolution: Use a solar cover when the pool was not in use conserved the heat. I ended up adding a 500' black irrigation hose loop in a more sunny location and kept the pool at 76-80 in all of September - resulting in 4 weeks longer use. The poor customer service to the units leak issue is why I do not recommend this product. No amount of hose clamps, plumbing fitting tape, or sealant, or gasket seal would solve the leaks (constant dripping even at low pressure at the hose attachment points) Positive - with a slow flow - will generate a (slow/small) volume of warm (80) to hot water (125) depending on sun angle and clear skies Cons - No effective customer service. The fittings leak on both units, nothing applied to the fittings stopped the leaks. Customer service is non-existent From a BTU perspective it is akin to dropping ice cubes into a pool in Arizona that is in 125 degree temp to cool down. If you slow the volume of flow down to a gallon a minute, you get a very nice rise in water temp - slow it even further, I got 125 degrees coming out (that is hot) - but that is at a trickle really does not dent the water temp. Setting the flow to be at about 10 degree rise resulted in a larger volume of warmer water mixing in the pool. Experiments: 1) solar cover on 24 hours in 85, filter running during the day only 2) solar cover on 24 hours in 85, filter running during the day only + the solar curve Result The 2 Solar curve added 2 degrees in July Sun per day with about 9 hours of exposure to Sun (overhead effectively 4 hours) and not turning the units to be in optimal Sun facing. Do not run filter at night through the curves (they are then chilling the water - think radiator/heat sink)