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Thread: Solar heater
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30-03-2021, 12:22 AM #1
Solar heater
With the promise of warm temperatures tomorrow I decided to make sure my DIY solar heater is ready for the day, but on inspection it looks like its got a bit hot without water circulating through it, it's bandaged for now but I'm thinking I need to make new ones
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30-03-2021, 10:40 AM #2
Nobody can claim it doesn't work!
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30-03-2021, 11:22 AM #3
El scorchio
I've stopped using mine as the amount of crap (dead biofilm?) coming out of it was horrendous.
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30-03-2021, 11:58 AM #4
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30-03-2021, 12:11 PM #5
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30-03-2021, 05:28 PM #6Freddyboy the legend
"we are water keepers first"
Johnathan
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30-03-2021, 06:35 PM #7
Got from 10.5 at 9 this morning, to 11.8 by 5 pm so good result there I think
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30-03-2021, 06:38 PM #8
Sorry Im not that organised lol its 250 meters of plex underfloor heating pipe on a 10 foot piece of triple wall polycarbonate, sprayed black, with 10 mm clear polycarbonate over the top to keep wind chill off it, it's fed from a 3000 lph pump from the clean side of my nexus 310 and I have a digital thermostat to shut the pump off if the water temperature gets too much
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30-03-2021, 06:44 PM #9
1 you made earlier matey lol https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/top...ink_source=app
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"we are water keepers first"
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30-03-2021, 06:54 PM #10________________________________________________
All we ever wanted was everything,
All we ever got was cold,
Get up, eat jelly, sandwich bars and barbed wire,
Squash every week into a day.
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30-03-2021, 06:57 PM #11________________________________________________
All we ever wanted was everything,
All we ever got was cold,
Get up, eat jelly, sandwich bars and barbed wire,
Squash every week into a day.
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30-03-2021, 08:06 PM #12
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30-03-2021, 08:34 PM #13
Do you get much crap come out of yours?
Or is just my one that does that?
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30-03-2021, 08:36 PM #14
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30-03-2021, 08:38 PM #15
That is a decent temperature increase! Glad to see it working well for you.
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30-03-2021, 09:02 PM #16
you lot must have inspired aqua forte they've made one too...
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08-04-2021, 07:28 PM #17
that looks very similar to what beltway and the like have been selling for a few years to warm your paddling/swimming pool
the slow pond build thread
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28-09-2021, 11:58 AM #18
Anyone tried simply using a brass coil heat exchanger in the filter, then pumping water (perhaps with an additive to keep from freezing)?
I see CK do a stainless steel coil: https://www.cotswoldkoi.co.uk/produc...eat-exchangers that could be plumbed in to a closed circuit (with a small expansion tank). A small 24/48V pump could then circulate the water in the separate loop once the thermostat indicates the temp is high enough above the pond temperature.
An old 24/48V PV electric cell could then provide pump power..14000l, my mutts: Chargoi (2010), Doitsu (2022), Tancho (2022), Kujaku (2022), Hi Utusri (2022)
The Daily pond temp thread
Pond still covered, currently 11.6C Been really mild this year as far as pond temps go. ...