Solar Water Heater, Part 2 Pool Water Heater, Off Grid Shower and Boils Water
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Finally! A DIY Solar Water Heater that Works! Learn How To Make a DIY Solar Water Heater that can be used for Pool Water Heater, Off Grid Shower, Boil Water, and much more. Made with 110 feet of Copper and Aluminum Solar Collectors as it’s major heating source.
Metal frame made out of roof edging and aluminum flashing with multiwall Polycarbonate to trap in the heat, a perfect combination for any solar collector.
We welcome your thoughts and comments on how to improve our designs like our next build using those copper manifolds and Pex tubing, please feel free to share your ideas.
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Part 3!!! Encore!!! Love everything about these vids. I’m so interested in your final running temps, water speeds, etc. thanks for sharing your hard work. Very professional and a great execution. Keep it up!
VERY professional!!!! WOW!
Best tutorial ever watched.
Thank you!
Loved your videos and waiting for the next with the PEX.
You only get that temp by allowing the water too sit in the pipes. Running water will only achieve you 10 degrees tops over pool water. I know cause I have the same system but plan to upgrade to more than 300 feet copper. My system has a pressure valve added case the water gets to hot from sitting it’s popped a couple times.
I used metal framing bottom channel for my box.
You don't need plywood. The insulating sheet is rigid enough to form the substrate. You can still clad it with the sheet on the back.
This is incredible
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Used steel tube framing and wrapped copper pipes in foil paper and used corrugated sheet for the backing.
That sounds like an interesting build,
Part 3 please. Looks like you used the aluminum heat transfer plates backwards from what would be ideal for this setup. The open side should face the sun, so the sun can still go directly to the pipe. For a heating a pool (maximizing total heat output, not output temp) you would be better off using tees instead of elbows so that the water goes thru in parallel instead of in series. The water coming out would not be nearly as hot, but the total energy captured by the panel would be higher.
Unfortunately I don't think you could complete this build if you reversed the aluminum collectors, if you re-watch the video you'll see that flap fits under the next piece of copper tubing which if reversed would once again cover over the top of the next piece, our thought was to seal top and bottom in aluminum basically encasing all the copper in aluminum, if you want to build one like you suggest I would just leave out the aluminum altogether or lay on sheets of aluminum. 2nd point regarding the T connectors we thought about doing this but our final decision was the the street elbows which produces non stop heat temp increases of 10 degrees 1-gallon per minute, even when our water was at 100 it would go up to 110 etc. so if you use this build for say an outdoor shower (shower only uses15-20 gallons or so) and you circulate the water back into the same source say 30 gallon drum it would raise the temp roughly 18-20 degrees per hour depending on the heat loss from the drum insulation etc..
This is a great build! A lot more efficient than you see in other videos because of the many lenght of copper and excelent conduction of the aluminum to the pipes! Well done. I want to build more or less the same (2 collectors) but with steel pipes as a permanent soluiton for water heating for my family. It will be fixed to the roof top.
I was wondering if you have ever measured the air temperature inside the collector. The bottom is made of wood which can catch fire if it is over 200 degrees.
I haven't taken air temp only readings but as you saw in the video the copper got to 246 degrees inside the box without any water running through it. NOTE you should be placing HARD/SOLID insulation between the build and the wood which will help lower the wood temperature. DO NOT use foam style insulation because it will melt!
Do you upload still part 3?
perfect. You applied what I had in mind. Have you tried this system to heat the air?. How much did you measure the input and exit temperatures? I will do the same for the system to heat the air. do you have any advice?
Thank you.
Where’s part 3?!
Any concerns about reactions between the copper with chlorine and/or the muriatic acid in the pool water?
If I place each copper tube in a hot water hose will that add more heat as the rubber heats up?
Good question, I don't know. I would test one and measure the results before doing a lot of them
Does it give you continuous hot water? Wouldn’t the cold water running cool off the pipes quicker than sun heating them, at which point it doesnt heat water anymore?
It continuously will raise the water temp 10 degrees 1-gallon per-minute, if the input is 75 then output will be 85, 85 then 95 etc. So if you want to take a shower for example which usually uses 2 gallons per-minute, for a 10 min shower use a 20 gallon bucket and just keep recycling the water from the bucket back into the bucket and the water will be hot in no time (+30 degrees per hour)
Or when you first run water through the system it will boil water for coffee or tea or ???
How does this do in the winter?
We really do not run it during the winter, we cover it with a tarp.
Why not just use a soft copper coil any let let it go round and round way less fitting but not as efficient in spacing am betting
Problem is that you couldn't put the aluminum fins on top of the copper
@@makeitforyourself3591 yeah that is true have you seen a batch solar hot water heater made with a box lined with pond line and a glass from a sliding door
Made the box out of 2x6 and elevated it to make a make shift shower
@@makeitforyourself3591wrap in foil?