HeatWaveSolar.com Solar Heater Install and Demonstration
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The only thing i see wrong is the intake and outlet are too close together and both at the top near the ceiling.
This may impress the customer with high temp readings not fully aware you are just re-heating hot air taken from the top of the room.
Shouldn't the intake be near the floor where the cooler air is?
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Wow! I didn't know that the Men In Black did home renovations.... :) :)
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That was cool...I mean Hot!
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What do you guys use as the collector?
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That is a great looking panel and installation! I notice that the intake and return air are near the ceiling. Wouldn't it work better if you had the intake close to the floor? Looks to me that you are only heating the air at the ceiling. People live closer to the floor than the ceiling. You should have the intake close to the floor.
It is Hot - in fact the air output can be quite high. But the relative efficiency of the solar heater relates to balancing heat removal with available heat in the collector. Remove too much heat and the collector shuts off, remove too little and efficiency suffers. The system is engineered for optimum heat removal while allowing the collector to maintain continuous operation.
alfinney4317 1 year ago
The collector is metal coated with a UV absorption material (low emissivity) for higher efficiencies. This means that the light goes in, but it doesn't come out. This is one of the critically important part of any solar heating device.
alfinney4317 1 year ago
Actually, the intake and return air can be mounted near the floor. Which is a better installation. On the video, there is a fence outside, which means that the solar heater couldn't be mounted lower, it had to be mounted higher so we couldn't put the intake/return near the floor. Each installation is different.
alfinney4317 2 years ago