OT: Solar hot water panels

[jeeman]

I think that is what these guys are offering….but it’s $7000 including installation. Nowhere near $1000 :-O

jeeman

[patb]

[quote=jeeman]I think that is what these guys are offering….but it’s $7000 including installation. Nowhere near $1000 :-O

jeeman[/quote]

http://www.bestbuypoolsupply.com/solar-heating.htm

Here’s a typical open loop system.

Note collector area should be 50% pool area.

Now you can go low tech, if you have room, just get corrugated iron sheet, paint it black and pump pool water into a distribution line over the top collect into a gutter at the bottom and some pumps and bang… I’d be surprised if it were more then a grand.

If you want to go cheap, paint a roof section black, mount pipe up there, and distribute via gutters. Collect return flow and filter before dumping into the pool

Three hundred bucks…

[patb]

[quote=jeeman]I think that is what these guys are offering….but it’s $7000 including installation. Nowhere near $1000 :-O

jeeman[/quote]

http://www.bestbuypoolsupply.com/solar-heating.htm

Here’s a typical open loop system.

Note collector area should be 50% pool area.

Now you can go low tech, if you have room, just get corrugated iron sheet, paint it black and pump pool water into a distribution line over the top collect into a gutter at the bottom and some pumps and bang… I’d be surprised if it were more then a grand.

If you want to go cheap, paint a roof section black, mount pipe up there, and distribute via gutters. Collect return flow and filter before dumping into the pool

Three hundred bucks…

[patb]

[quote=jeeman]I think that is what these guys are offering….but it’s $7000 including installation. Nowhere near $1000 :-O

jeeman[/quote]

http://www.bestbuypoolsupply.com/solar-heating.htm

Here’s a typical open loop system.

Note collector area should be 50% pool area.

Now you can go low tech, if you have room, just get corrugated iron sheet, paint it black and pump pool water into a distribution line over the top collect into a gutter at the bottom and some pumps and bang… I’d be surprised if it were more then a grand.

If you want to go cheap, paint a roof section black, mount pipe up there, and distribute via gutters. Collect return flow and filter before dumping into the pool

Three hundred bucks…

[patb]

[quote=jeeman]I think that is what these guys are offering….but it’s $7000 including installation. Nowhere near $1000 :-O

jeeman[/quote]

http://www.bestbuypoolsupply.com/solar-heating.htm

Here’s a typical open loop system.

Note collector area should be 50% pool area.

Now you can go low tech, if you have room, just get corrugated iron sheet, paint it black and pump pool water into a distribution line over the top collect into a gutter at the bottom and some pumps and bang… I’d be surprised if it were more then a grand.

If you want to go cheap, paint a roof section black, mount pipe up there, and distribute via gutters. Collect return flow and filter before dumping into the pool

Three hundred bucks…

[patb]

[quote=jeeman]I think that is what these guys are offering….but it’s $7000 including installation. Nowhere near $1000 :-O

jeeman[/quote]

http://www.bestbuypoolsupply.com/solar-heating.htm

Here’s a typical open loop system.

Note collector area should be 50% pool area.

Now you can go low tech, if you have room, just get corrugated iron sheet, paint it black and pump pool water into a distribution line over the top collect into a gutter at the bottom and some pumps and bang… I’d be surprised if it were more then a grand.

If you want to go cheap, paint a roof section black, mount pipe up there, and distribute via gutters. Collect return flow and filter before dumping into the pool

Three hundred bucks…

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=Fearful]
Side note, why don’t they make those damn things any other color than black? You could make, say, a terra cotta colored panel, and it would have a good percentage the absorbance of black. This is what happens when engineers make things like solar collectors. “Let’s make it black, because that absorbs the most light, 90% versus merely 80%!”

In solar panels, you can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.[/quote]

And who the fvck else would make these things?

SO you are saying that you want to added ten percent build cost and space to meet your minimum requirements because you don’t like the color black?

Similiar, you want to reject ten percent of the engery you could have and have to build more of the panels thus wasting more materials in your effort to go green?

Because you don’t like the color?

Problem with engineers? That is the same kind of stupid comments congressional panels make all the time.

CE

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=Fearful]
Side note, why don’t they make those damn things any other color than black? You could make, say, a terra cotta colored panel, and it would have a good percentage the absorbance of black. This is what happens when engineers make things like solar collectors. “Let’s make it black, because that absorbs the most light, 90% versus merely 80%!”

In solar panels, you can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.[/quote]

And who the fvck else would make these things?

SO you are saying that you want to added ten percent build cost and space to meet your minimum requirements because you don’t like the color black?

Similiar, you want to reject ten percent of the engery you could have and have to build more of the panels thus wasting more materials in your effort to go green?

Because you don’t like the color?

Problem with engineers? That is the same kind of stupid comments congressional panels make all the time.

CE

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=Fearful]
Side note, why don’t they make those damn things any other color than black? You could make, say, a terra cotta colored panel, and it would have a good percentage the absorbance of black. This is what happens when engineers make things like solar collectors. “Let’s make it black, because that absorbs the most light, 90% versus merely 80%!”

In solar panels, you can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.[/quote]

And who the fvck else would make these things?

SO you are saying that you want to added ten percent build cost and space to meet your minimum requirements because you don’t like the color black?

Similiar, you want to reject ten percent of the engery you could have and have to build more of the panels thus wasting more materials in your effort to go green?

Because you don’t like the color?

Problem with engineers? That is the same kind of stupid comments congressional panels make all the time.

CE

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=Fearful]
Side note, why don’t they make those damn things any other color than black? You could make, say, a terra cotta colored panel, and it would have a good percentage the absorbance of black. This is what happens when engineers make things like solar collectors. “Let’s make it black, because that absorbs the most light, 90% versus merely 80%!”

In solar panels, you can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.[/quote]

And who the fvck else would make these things?

SO you are saying that you want to added ten percent build cost and space to meet your minimum requirements because you don’t like the color black?

Similiar, you want to reject ten percent of the engery you could have and have to build more of the panels thus wasting more materials in your effort to go green?

Because you don’t like the color?

Problem with engineers? That is the same kind of stupid comments congressional panels make all the time.

CE

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=Fearful]
Side note, why don’t they make those damn things any other color than black? You could make, say, a terra cotta colored panel, and it would have a good percentage the absorbance of black. This is what happens when engineers make things like solar collectors. “Let’s make it black, because that absorbs the most light, 90% versus merely 80%!”

In solar panels, you can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.[/quote]

And who the fvck else would make these things?

SO you are saying that you want to added ten percent build cost and space to meet your minimum requirements because you don’t like the color black?

Similiar, you want to reject ten percent of the engery you could have and have to build more of the panels thus wasting more materials in your effort to go green?

Because you don’t like the color?

Problem with engineers? That is the same kind of stupid comments congressional panels make all the time.

CE

[ocrenter]

[quote=jeeman]Well, I got a quote from Performance Solar to install 10 Sunstar panels including the computerized valve for $6970. Does this sound reasonable to all you folks?[/quote]

For $1000 more you can get an autonomic pool cover. Water temp over the last week averaged 94 degree for us despite sub 80 degree temp.

[ocrenter]

[quote=jeeman]Well, I got a quote from Performance Solar to install 10 Sunstar panels including the computerized valve for $6970. Does this sound reasonable to all you folks?[/quote]

For $1000 more you can get an autonomic pool cover. Water temp over the last week averaged 94 degree for us despite sub 80 degree temp.

[ocrenter]

[quote=jeeman]Well, I got a quote from Performance Solar to install 10 Sunstar panels including the computerized valve for $6970. Does this sound reasonable to all you folks?[/quote]

For $1000 more you can get an autonomic pool cover. Water temp over the last week averaged 94 degree for us despite sub 80 degree temp.

[ocrenter]

[quote=jeeman]Well, I got a quote from Performance Solar to install 10 Sunstar panels including the computerized valve for $6970. Does this sound reasonable to all you folks?[/quote]

For $1000 more you can get an autonomic pool cover. Water temp over the last week averaged 94 degree for us despite sub 80 degree temp.

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