Forum: Solar Heating
02-26-19, 12:24 PM
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Forum: Solar Heating
02-13-16, 07:32 AM
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Pletby
This project for the time has taken a...
Pletby
This project for the time has taken a back seat to some other projects. However from time to time some pieces do get soldered into place. Last week I had some time to rout the piping inside...
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Forum: Solar Heating
03-07-14, 08:43 PM
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Solar hot water space heating for the shop
A nice day here in Ontario. The temp rose to 2 Deg C. perfect for a selective coating for the copper risers. In the direct sunlight out of the wind proved ideal for the job. The coating dried quickly...
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Forum: Solar Heating
02-23-14, 05:32 PM
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Solar hot water space heating for the shop
A nice sunny day in Ontario -7 Deg. C Some serious work is progressing on the solar hot water panel for the shop. These jobs of tedium seem to take forever and one must be in the right frame of mind....
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Forum: Solar Heating
02-04-14, 01:33 PM
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Solar hot water space heating for the shop
A little light production is made. The copper risers for the solar collector. It is a mundane task and its going to take some time. I've about 90 pcs to make. You guys probably know what I mean....
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Forum: Solar Heating
01-09-14, 10:03 AM
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Solar hot water space heating for the shop
Here it is, a new year and the Canadian is dragging his feet on the project. Jan 09 is a sunny cold day with an expected high of -6 Deg. C. Mikesolar was curious if any activity had occurred. Not....
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Forum: Solar Heating
12-18-13, 09:18 PM
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Forum: Solar Heating
11-02-13, 06:17 PM
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Solar hot water space heating for the shop
Today, Saturday is very wet as its been raining for the past 3 days. I had some time to work on the solar collectors. Drilling the holes in the stainless to pass the manifolds from enclosure to...
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Forum: Solar Heating
10-25-13, 06:56 PM
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Solar hot water space heating for the shop
Just an update. Today the Suntuf acrylic had arrived and this is probably the most expensive part of the project. I think by the time we have everything together it might be a little north of $1k.
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Forum: Solar Heating
10-25-13, 06:45 PM
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Replies: 41
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Solar hot water space heating for the shop
Just an update. Today the Suntuf acrylic had arrived and this is probably the most expensive part of the project. I think by the time we have everything together it might be a littlee north of $1k.
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Forum: Solar Heating
10-22-13, 05:52 PM
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Almost ready for the copper
Fall weather is starting to settle in to Ontario Canada. Wind rain, cold , soon it will be too in-climate for this Canuck to work out side!! Today was a good day and much progress had been made. The...
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Forum: Solar Heating
10-12-13, 04:38 AM
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Solar hot water space heating for the shop
We're forging ahead with the solar heat for the shop. Today the polyiso insulation board was sprayed a nice flat black. This insulation board would be seen as a shiny aluminum surface between the...
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Forum: Solar Heating
10-02-13, 07:05 AM
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Replies: 41
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Solar hot water space heating
The last window is installed and the copper tubing for the lower manifold is in and soldered. The plastic vapour barrier has been improved greatly from when I first built the shop. Its just a little...
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-30-13, 07:05 AM
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Replies: 41
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Mike
Thanks for the heads up. But it is a...
Mike
Thanks for the heads up. But it is a shop, and I'm making an effort to stem most of airflow. But in no way will the wall be air-tight in any stretch of the imagination.
Randen
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-30-13, 05:14 AM
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An up-date
The south wall has both the new...
An up-date
The south wall has both the new windows framed. We needed to have a narrower window so we could increase the amount of solar collector area. The 1' copper tube supplying the bottom...
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-28-13, 08:36 AM
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-28-13, 08:24 AM
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Solar hot water space heating for the shop
AC Hacker
The heating of the loop field is very easy in the shops system set-up. I will include a drawing of the circuit a little later. The whole system uses the same propylene glycol. Meaning...
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-26-13, 07:02 PM
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-24-13, 07:07 PM
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-24-13, 06:39 PM
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The Hard work has begun
I was a beautiful day here in Ontario. In fact the last couple have been. We have begun the task of replacing the shop windows with new narrow windows. This will increase the number of copper risers...
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-20-13, 03:11 PM
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Replies: 41
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Solar hot water space heating for the shop
Well yes on the storage.
The office portion of the shop has in-floor heating. Its made up from 6" of concrete so it stores heat nicely. The shop however was built before I gathered much wisdom and...
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-13-13, 09:40 AM
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Replies: 41
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Solar space heating for shop
Here in Ontario Canada fall weather is beginning. Nice weather for working outside. For fellow Eco-renovator that have been following and remember 2 yrs. ago I had built and installed a homemade...
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