{"id":202,"date":"2021-04-13T21:47:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T21:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knowall.dev19.bigideas.io\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=202"},"modified":"2022-03-02T20:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:32:43","slug":"noritz-as-pool-heater","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/knowledge-base\/noritz-as-pool-heater\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Noritz Tankless Water Heaters be used as pool heaters?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Noritz water heater cannot be used as a pool heater due to the chemicals that can be harmful to the copper components within the unit. Although a pool heater might be necessary in order to heat up the pool quickly, a secondary heat exchanger specifically for pool applications (made of Titanium, Stainless Steel or Cupro-Nickel) can be used with a Noritz unit to gradually raise the temperature of the pool water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hot water from the water heater will indirectly heat the ambient pool water while they are both flowing through the heat exchanger through the connections provided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information on pool heat exchangers can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ej-bowman.com\/faq\/11-how-does-a-swimming-pool-heat-exchanger-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ej-bowman.com\/faq\/11-how-does-a-swimming-pool-heat-exchanger-work\/<\/a> or by searching for &#8220;pool heat exchanger&#8221; on your search engine of choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Heat Exchanger<\/strong><br>A device used to transfer thermal energy between two or more fluids (e.g. air, water, oil). The fluids are typically separated and not allowed to mix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Noritz water heater cannot be used as a pool heater due to the chemicals that can be harmful to the copper components within the unit. Although a pool heater might be necessary in order to heat up the pool quickly, a secondary heat exchanger specifically for pool applications (made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5,17],"ht-kb-tag":[55],"class_list":["post-202","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-general-questions","ht_kb_category-professionals-questions","ht_kb_tag-heat-exchanger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/202\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}