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Old 02-12-16, 12:24 AM   #579
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Originally Posted by pinballlooking View Post
How efficient do you think this would be?
Should work well and I'm not convinced that the fan will be needed.

Will you mount the rad horizontally or vertically? I suggest you mount it almost horizontally - but with enough slope that you can easily bleed all air out of it. That will promote more air flow through the rad than a vertical arrangement, since any air flow in your greenhouse will be vertical.

I think your water flow rate is more important than using the fan. If you have a reasonable flow rate - it doesn't have to be a torrent - you should harvest significant heat even without the fan. You don't need a huge temperature rise on each pass through the rad, you just need a constant flow and some temperature rise.
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