How to build simple solar system for heating home water?
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Just buy yourself some solar panels and rig them up.
Nothing could be simpler.
well, the water hose always has hot water when it is laying out in the sun, that is my solar system
Get lots of plastic bottles (ie squash, tonic water etc) make a hole in bottom. thread black hose pipe through them all to make a long string of bottles. Leave in sun, connect to cold tap and hey presto hot water comes out of other end. Looks very untidy but a great way to fill a paddling pool etc.
I imagine if you're heating small amounts ( a cup of water) you could probably use a solar convection over - they're fairly simple to make.
If you are looking at designing a basic system to heat your hotwater tank - we've just gone to a whole other level.
You will need to determine " how much sunlight you generally receieve per day ( hours)." you will also need to determine " how long you want it to take to heat your entire tank of water."
Since one panel puts out a certain amount of elect per hour of direct sunlight, you can see it will take longer to heat a full tank of water unless you have more panels putting out more elec. then it will take less time. This is why you decide how long you want it to take to heat a full tank.
You'll need the panels
You'll need an inverter
You'll need a solar tracking system & circuit
You'll need your solar rods installed in tank
You may even want elec.rechargabel batteries to store excess elec.
Maybe you can get ideas from here
http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/sol...
The simplest hot water solar heater is use a coil of black plastic pipe. It will be more efficient if you place it in an insulated glass top box but will work if you even just lay it on the ground.
you will never get the water hot and solar panels can be expensive but you can get warm water by buring pipe in the ground it has to be about 3 feet deep then you can lay black pipe etc on top of the ground too but the above ground option will only work in the summer
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