08-01-2008, 02:27 AM
Making a solar water heater is soooooo simple.
If you just laid a black water hose in the sun for an hour and then check the temp.
Boom,, you just made your first solar water heater.
Now if you want to make it more efficient and have a greater capacity then replace the water hose with a copper tube (plaint it black) lay it out in a grid using 90 deg fittings and incase it under glass. you could even put some silver Mylar under it.
Add a tank ( used water heater) leave the insulation on it. Situate the tank above the collator array so that the hot water will naturally rise via thermo-siphon.
A simple thing like this can be made mostly of used (recycled stuff) .
Those are two ways to do it but there are many others.
The sun provides about 1000 watts of energy per square meter.
"Never trouble another with what you can do yourself. "
Thomas Jefferson
If you just laid a black water hose in the sun for an hour and then check the temp.
Boom,, you just made your first solar water heater.
Now if you want to make it more efficient and have a greater capacity then replace the water hose with a copper tube (plaint it black) lay it out in a grid using 90 deg fittings and incase it under glass. you could even put some silver Mylar under it.
Add a tank ( used water heater) leave the insulation on it. Situate the tank above the collator array so that the hot water will naturally rise via thermo-siphon.
A simple thing like this can be made mostly of used (recycled stuff) .
Those are two ways to do it but there are many others.
The sun provides about 1000 watts of energy per square meter.
"Never trouble another with what you can do yourself. "
Thomas Jefferson