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Old 10-13-11, 05:35 PM   #6
Austin
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Originally Posted by strider3700 View Post
my thoughts on using solar to space heat and DHW is treat them as completely seperate systems that happen to share the same storage tank. My "plan" is to just pump heated water from the tank to a radiator to begin with. eventually I hope to add radiant tubing under the bedrooms then I'll just pump straight through them when additional heat is needed. No need to do an exchanger on that part of the system since you don't drink the water.
This is exactly what I am planning on doing. I plan on submerge the pex coil into the tank for my DHW and have a separate system to then pump the tanks water through a radiator of some type for space heating.
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