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marx290 · 03-11-13, 10:41 AM

I lived in SW Pennsylvania where we had pretty cold, sustained winters. There were a number of clear sunny days usually with a lot of wind. I always wanted to take advantage of that incoming radiation. We don't own our home nor did we then or I may have built a solar hot air collector. That's probably one of the simplest ways to take advantage of the insolation.

Maybe someday I'll play around with building an ASHP and rig it up on the sunny side of my home. I would think a small greenhouse bult around the Hx would at the very least keep the precipitation off and maybe reduce frosting over.

03-11-13, 10:41 AM	#193
marx290 Vapor Compression Goon Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 63 Thanks: 11 Thanked 22 Times in 11 Posts	I lived in SW Pennsylvania where we had pretty cold, sustained winters. There were a number of clear sunny days usually with a lot of wind. I always wanted to take advantage of that incoming radiation. We don't own our home nor did we then or I may have built a solar hot air collector. That's probably one of the simplest ways to take advantage of the insolation. Maybe someday I'll play around with building an ASHP and rig it up on the sunny side of my home. I would think a small greenhouse bult around the Hx would at the very least keep the precipitation off and maybe reduce frosting over.