We had a (pretty much) all-Hayward system installed several years ago. (This will be the fifth summer.) We've had issues with a number of components in that time, requiring repair/replacement.
Recently we've been having an issue with our heater, a Hayward H250FDN. It will occasionally try to start, fire for a second or so, then turn off again. After failing a couple times in a row it will go to an IF error until that times out. Sometimes, however, it fires up fine. But some of those times it fires up fine, it will then shut off at some undetermined point, maybe ten or fifteen minutes later, then fire back up again on the next cycle (the target temperature not yet having been reached).
We did have a larger gas meter installed previously to make sure that we're able to deliver the required gas for our pool heater plus the furnace, gas fireplace(s), gas stove, etc. (none of which are running when the pool heater acts up).
We've had a service call where he checked for spiders and investigated the basic operation (although at the time, of course, the heater was working so he couldn't observe it failing to light up).
He did notice some corrosion around the heater exchanger/pipes, and suggested that could be the cause our intermittent IF code. He recommended we either replace the heat changer or just replace the whole heater because of the high (%-wise) cost of doing just the heat exchanger.
Before I go ahead and pull the trigger on replacing a 4-year-old heater, is there anything else that comes to mind?
Also, we've been given quotes for a H250FDN replacement as well as a Jandy JXI 260 with Versaflo. The pricing is similar. The Hayward has a standard three-year warranty, but the Jandy has a one-year heater/five-year heat exchanger warranty. Are there any issue with connecting the Jandy to an Omnilogic board? The longer warranty on the Jandy heat exchanger sounds nice, but I'm nervous about a one-year (only) warranty on the rest given our experience with pool equipment so far.
Recently we've been having an issue with our heater, a Hayward H250FDN. It will occasionally try to start, fire for a second or so, then turn off again. After failing a couple times in a row it will go to an IF error until that times out. Sometimes, however, it fires up fine. But some of those times it fires up fine, it will then shut off at some undetermined point, maybe ten or fifteen minutes later, then fire back up again on the next cycle (the target temperature not yet having been reached).
We did have a larger gas meter installed previously to make sure that we're able to deliver the required gas for our pool heater plus the furnace, gas fireplace(s), gas stove, etc. (none of which are running when the pool heater acts up).
We've had a service call where he checked for spiders and investigated the basic operation (although at the time, of course, the heater was working so he couldn't observe it failing to light up).
He did notice some corrosion around the heater exchanger/pipes, and suggested that could be the cause our intermittent IF code. He recommended we either replace the heat changer or just replace the whole heater because of the high (%-wise) cost of doing just the heat exchanger.
Before I go ahead and pull the trigger on replacing a 4-year-old heater, is there anything else that comes to mind?
Also, we've been given quotes for a H250FDN replacement as well as a Jandy JXI 260 with Versaflo. The pricing is similar. The Hayward has a standard three-year warranty, but the Jandy has a one-year heater/five-year heat exchanger warranty. Are there any issue with connecting the Jandy to an Omnilogic board? The longer warranty on the Jandy heat exchanger sounds nice, but I'm nervous about a one-year (only) warranty on the rest given our experience with pool equipment so far.
