Diy Solar Hot Air Hot Water Panels

If you have a gas water heater you ll need to add a second tank to store the solar heated water and purchase a hook up kit from fafco.

Diy solar hot air hot water panels. The hot out from the solar storage tank goes to the cold in of the main water heater remember the main water heater acts as your back up system during times of little or no solar gain. A more advanced solar air heating system uses water running through central air like systems. Although there is no restriction on shape they are most commonly flat and rectangular like water or electricity panels. They run water through a system that is heated by a solar hot water collector is circulated through a pipe either by convention or pump and has a space where a simple air duct encloses the pipe or the warm pipes circulate beneath the flooring.

The kit includes everything you need to connect the solar panels to your existing electric water heater on a single story house you may need extra tubing for two story homes. A solar water heater can be made from a few pieces of pvc pipe. One way you can cut your utility costs is to use a solar water heater. Richard freudenberger formerly with mother e.

There isn t much to a solar air heater. That is a rather simple matter of having a coil of tube facing south to pump water through and then return to your pool. Therefore this may not be a practical design for residential installation but it is an inexpensive easily built experimental system that produces as much or more hot water than commercially available systems. There are many plans that you can use when you want to start a new diy project at home.

On the diy thermal solar panel side an affordable and relatively easy solution would to build your own solar water heater with a coil of black pvc pipe. Mine cost about 60 in materials about 4 00 per square foot and about 6 hours of construction time. A basic air heater.