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    Used the heater today between midday and 5pm, when i first turned on the heater the trickle out was at 52.6c ! an hour later and for the remainder of the afternoon the best balance i could achieve was 1 litre every 80 seconds at 26.4 / 28.2c pond was at 16.6 ended up tonight at 17.3 degree's i do not get any direct sun until late pm on the window only so heater really helping the pond.... happy days...... fish looking happier for sure.
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    Fascinating this guys, keep up the good work, you know I’m going to have to try and build one now !
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    Got 24 deg coming out yesterday and didnt get sun till afternoon today should be a good one with all this heat expected.

    Get one going Mark easy enough to do and cheap enough.
    John

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    Quote Originally Posted by john1 View Post
    Got 24 deg coming out yesterday and didnt get sun till afternoon today should be a good one with all this heat expected.

    Get one going Mark easy enough to do and cheap enough.
    nice one John, yes today should be spot on....
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    Quote Originally Posted by MARKG71 View Post
    Fascinating this guys, keep up the good work, you know I’m going to have to try and build one now !
    crack on mate your missing all of this free warmth,
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    Quote Originally Posted by john1 View Post
    Got 24 deg coming out yesterday and didnt get sun till afternoon today should be a good one with all this heat expected.

    Get one going Mark easy enough to do and cheap enough.
    Can you guess where the warm water is returning lol

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    Man our koi are spoilt rotten lol....look at them gathering round then return pipe, what run rates and temps are you returning now Steve after your changes ?
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    Temp around 6pm last night was 17.3, at 10am this morning it had dropped slightly to 16.9, had the solar heater going again today, it was trickling a litre every 75 to 85 seconds and was getting 26 degree return temp for quite a few hours, water went from 16.9 late morning to 18.1 by this evening, first time i have seen 18 degree's this year....
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    18.9 today......so close to 19 !!!
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    Thanks for the ongoing updates. Loving it. I'm still sourcing the bits for the solar heater.

    I know most have used hose pipe, but I'm going to use 60m (if it works, i might then get a further 30m - space providing - so a total of 90m) of 18mm light duty pond hose.

    I know it goes brittle in sunlight after a while, but I'm thinking I won't be moving it once it's in situ. So should still last a fee years. So am hoping it should still be ok. I'm also thinking if it all goes wrong i can always swap it out for some cheap hose pipe instead.

    My thinking of using this is there will be more water sitting in the heater at any one time than a narrower bore hose. Although this may neccesitate a longer length of hose to maintain heat transfer. It's already black so saves me having to paint it. The wall between the coils is fairly thin, so should help with heat transfer. And it has a bigger surface area than standard hose - due to the coils.

    Just have to decide on the right pump now. And I am still looking into a way to automate it so the pump only turns on once the air temp in the heater hits a certain temp - for some reason I have the figure of 40C in my head.

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    Sounds doable and I am sure the larger hose will work with longer dwell times,and 40 deg is easy mine can go off the scale at 55 deg and return around 26 from that.
    John

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    Quote Originally Posted by smartin View Post
    18.9 today......so close to 19 !!!
    How frustrating ................................ nearly but not quite...……………….

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    Quote Originally Posted by anne View Post
    How frustrating ................................ nearly but not quite...……………….
    Hi Anne,
    sorry for late reply, not been on for a bit, yes very frustrating surprising how quick the temp drops out, my covers are off and have not using the heater since, just looked and temp is 17.3 wind chill has been bad......
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    Looking up for next week Steve so get the heater ready.
    John

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    Quote Originally Posted by john1 View Post
    Looking up for next week Steve so get the heater ready.
    it needs to John, not very good a 2 degree temp drop in around 3 days......
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    29 deg coming out as I speak

    Or should I say Wright.
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    Quote Originally Posted by john1 View Post
    29 deg coming out as I speak

    Or should I say Wright.
    29 degree's that's good John, with current temps i am getting between 26 and 28 degrees with a litre every 75 to 85 seconds, have not had much time past few days with the pond, from the weekend onwards i should be out there a bit more....... pond temp is like a yo yo which is not great, went to 18.9 and been back to 16.7 today back upto 18c
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    How's the ponds doing ?...….bubbling away nicely I hope...…..

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    Mine is doing great though dont know what temp is coming out but the heater today was off the scale over 55 deg !!!

    Pond up 1 deg so getting there.
    John

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    I'm getting there building mine.

    I'm waiting for the acrylic cover to turn up. Then just a case of trialling a couple of pumps I already have and hopefully it does the trick.

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