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07-20-13, 12:44 PM
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Good info for solar heat collectors, but this...
Good info for solar heat collectors, but this thread is addressing the recovery of heat from shower water, so the disaster scenario that you have described will not happen in a shower.
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07-19-13, 07:41 PM
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Well, the outside sleeve would be great,...
Well, the outside sleeve would be great, especially if it was a terrible conductor. If you make one copper and the other plastic, there could be problems with different expansion rates.
But the...
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Solar Heating
07-17-13, 03:39 PM
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Plastic, especially thinner plastic is not too...
Plastic, especially thinner plastic is not too bad once it comes up to temp. It's interesting to note how well plastic HXs work in HRVs.
It would be unfortunate to pass on this project because of...
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Solar Heating
07-17-13, 09:58 AM
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Dump the plumbing and use PV to heat water?
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Elgo, Nice job on the shower water heat...
Elgo,
Nice job on the shower water heat recovery. Nice video, too!
But I'm curious how you determined, "conserve about 50% of the hot water energy"?
I'm not challenging it... but I would...
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05-06-13, 10:47 AM
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Xringer, I'm not sure how it is that you...
Xringer,
I'm not sure how it is that you are applying your solar PV power to your electric water heater when you are in resistance mode?
Last time I tuned in, you had bolted a big power...
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