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Home Heating with Evacuated Tubes

This article describes a home built by someone in Big Bar Lake in BC.  Approx 200 kms NW from Kamloops.  The home owner planned right from the start to try and heat the house with solar water Heating.  
 
When trying to incorporate any renewable energy project into ...

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Solar Collector Efficiency Explained

All solar collectors, evacuated tubes, flat plate collectors and un-glazed pool heaters have different efficiencies. This is why no one can say Evacuated tubes are always better than flat plate collectors. It depends on their application.

Calculating collector efficiency is complicated...

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Sizing Solar Hot Water Tanks

A solar tank is a critical part of your solar hot water system.  The type and size of solar tank you need is often a poorly understood part of a system, mainly because there are so many variables to it.
 
Many systems installed by companies often attached a small box of tricks to the side...

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Solar SRCC and CSA Rating

Are you looking at buying "CSA approved solar collectors". This article explains what is now in place in Canada with regard to Solar Water Heating.

The end of the ecoENERGY program.
The residential and commercial ecoENERGY incentive programs are ending soon, 31st March is the...

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Grants for Solar Hot Water

In this email we will cover these topics.

If you are looking to install a solar water heating system you are most likely wanting to know how the grants work and what you need to get them.
Explaining what the new F379 is and what it does for you. This will give you some valuable information...

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Solar Tank Size

One 30 tube panel should be sufficient for a house with 3 people (aprox 10 tubes per person, should provide 30% to 60% of the total yearly hot water. This will be aprox 100% in the summer and 30% or less in the winter.

The 30 tube panel is suggested with cylinders up to 260 liters...

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High Temperature Insulation

When you insulate the pipe work to and from the collector. Make sure you use insulation that will resist the high temperatures. The pipe work can reach very high temperatures and normal insulation is likely to melt. The flexible stainless steel pipe comes pre insulated with high temperature insulation....

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Solar Maintenance

Very little maintenance is required for solar water heating systems. You should occasionally check the system pressure, to make sure there has been no water loss, and to check for any air in the system. The only other requirement is to ensure that there is an electricity supply connected at all times,...

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Snow on your Solar Collectors

"I've read somewhere that evacuated tubes collectors get covered in snow but Flat plate collectors don't"....

Don't believe the hype... both types of collectors, evacuated tube and flat plates will at some point collect snow in winter. If you have a few days of snow that will make both...

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Why Solar Works

History of solar collectors and how they work.

Obviously solar energy comes from the sun, but how do we capture it.

Back in about 1767 a scientist Horace de Saussure created the worlds first Solar Oven. This consisted of 3 layers of glass surrounding a well insulated box. Sunlight...

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Solar Water Heating

What is solar water heating and how does it work?

This is a question that gets asked a lot. This article will hopefully give you some basic information about solar water heating systems and what they can, and cannot do for you.

In a nutshell we use a very simple technology to heat...

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Heating a Garage

In Canada because of the huge demands for winter heating, solar heating can be very costly. that's not to say it cant be done, just don't expect it to cost less than a $1000 gas furnace or normal natural gas hot water boiler!

It really all depends where you live. Obviously heating a garage in Vancouver is much easier than in Alberta....

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Why buy Latitude51 Solar

Why would you buy Latitude51 Solar collectors? It a simple question, we will highlight a few points we think you should consider.

Solar Collector Size and Power Output

They are large (over 4.6m2) powerful collectors, although they are priced very low and they are imported, they are not "cheap...

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Solar Flat Plate Versus Evacuated Tubes

When you read the endless sites that profess how much better one type of collectors is better than another you need to learn how to compare the performance of various solar collectors for yourself.

This applies not just to the Flat plate vs evacuated tube debate, but also to any other solar...

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