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Pex / Aluminum Serpentine Collector
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ChrisJ: Following the good success I had with my solar projects up to this point, I decided to get serious and build big - a 24' X 8' pex / aluminum...
Coroplast Collectors
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myk3y: A few links to get this started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroplast http://www.iwilltry.org/b/projects/build-a-simple-solar-water-heater/ ...
Serpentine Copper / Aluminum Design Solar Hot Water Collector
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Rick H Parker: This serpentine copper / aluminum design was my first solar project. I set it up as a drain back system and it worked okay, but not as efficiently...
CPVC / Aluminum Solar Hot Water Collector
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SolarInterested: My pex collector was working well, but it had a high flow resistance, so I decided to experiment with CPVC in a parallel configuration. ...
Modified Trickle Down Collectors (MTD)
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stmbtwle: I noticed there wasn't anything about this type of collector on the forum so here are a few links to start this thread On the BIS site - Dr....
Copper / Aluminum Solar Hot Water Collector
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netttech: The copper / aluminum, parallel flow solar hot water collector design is the often the design of choice for DIY solar hydronic collectors. It...
Would this be an adequate solar location?
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Bruce: This is my roughly south facing home, photos taken this morning around 11:15am. Note that the thick tree on the left could be taken down, the others...
oil in evacuated tube solar collectors
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stmbtwle: Has anybody run oil through the manifold of a evacuated tube solar heater, than passed the oil through coils, to heat hot water in a storage tank? It...
How to setup the best flow rate through big solar collector?
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SolarInterested: Hi everybody! In the backyard of my house, I have a garage with an aluminum roof with good PUR insulation underneath this aluminum. You can see...
How do I keep the water from freezing in my panels in the winter?
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stmbtwle: The most common ways of dealing with freeze protection in hydronic systems are using a glycol/water mixture, building a system where all the water...
Snap disk switch
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stmbtwle: can somebody refer me to a snap disc switch that I can use on the back of my solar hot water panel that turns on when it reaches a temperature of 100...
55 gallon plastic drums for tank heat exchanger
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lhtrees: I am hoping to tackle building the $1000 solar water heater found at https://builditsolar.com/Experimental/PEXColDHW/Overview.htm " The...
Solarflower : Open Source Solar Energy Collector Which Tracks the Sun
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amitbajpayee: From a post in the Yahoo group http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SimplySolar/message/27932 http://www.solarflower.org/ Solarflower is an...
Ground anchoring
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jezter6: More dumb questions 😉 It seems a lot of people are digging post holes to keep a collector down because the back is an obvious wind sail....
Electric heat to prevent snow/ice buildup?
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stmbtwle: Ok, dumb question time. Has anyone put some sort of small economically reasonable heater in their hydronic collector box? I'm still thinking of...
Brainstorm or Hairbrained idea plans for a solar home
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stmbtwle: In the last few weeks, I was given a $70,000 solar collection system. The unit was installed at a brewery and used to heat up a lot of water for...
An idea to help with stagnation temps (who wants melted plastic?)
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gbwillson: As you know by now, stagnation occurs in collectors when the pumps shut off for some reason, and because there is no water flow, temps inside the...
New "Aretha" project
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gregkn73: Hi, Since I am very satisfied with the heat gain of my sunspace, and because I have one radiator in my living room that I am keeping it always...
Need to design a pre water heater
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stmbtwle: So I have a tankless water heater like less than $100 Chine model, outside my kitchen window. The Winter sun shines on the wall between the sink and...
Gravity Fed Solar Tube Water Heater
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stmbtwle: Dear all, I have a solar tube water heater that is non-pressurized wit a gravity feed of the hot water. I am in the Caribbean where we rely on...
Thermosyphon distance
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SolarInterested: I am considering running insulated 1/2" pex from my collector into a resevoir on my 2nd floor (~10 ft straight up). Q1: Is that too far for a...
Trench slope
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JC77: Hello, I've been cruising around here for a while but have limited time for research so I thought I'd throw it out here and see what I can find out....
Thoughts on connecting Solar Liquid Collector to gas fired hydronic heating system
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mclark999: I bought a home in Grand Lake, Colorado last fall and it has a huge unused south facing rear wall just begging for a solar collector. I build a hot...
Crawl Space thermal mass?
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JC77: Hi, I am new to this solar heating (Mechanical Engineer) and tired of the heating bills in an all-electric home. Baseboard heaters chew through...
Whitehorse man's homemade 'root heater' is growing veggies faster, longer
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SolarInterested: This is featured on Canadian Yahoo today, hardly 'news', but good to see that a home brew collector and plant root heating system is being featured. ...

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