Does anyone have any idea on how to make your own solar powered pool heater using thermo siphoning?
Although I believe it would be possible to create a thermo siphoning setup buy augmentin on a pool, I think it would be far less efficient buy amoxicillin than using the pool pump to move the water through a solar collector. Since you’re running buy generic amoxil ampicillin cheap your pool pump anyways, its still "free" heat. There are many on the market these days, but the first I ever saw, as a kid, was a home made one at my neighbor’s pool. Fairly simple in construction, it consisted of sheet of plywood painted flat black, propped up on an angle facing the sun.
He then tapped into the return line from the pump to the pool, and detoured it into smaller black plastic pipes that crossed back and forth many times on top Generic Levitra Super Active+ Online Pharmacy of the plywood. The pipes then re-converged and went back amoxil buy to the pool.
Some personal thoughts on designing the system:
-you would have to construct some kind of manifold, maybe a piece of pvc the same diameter as your buy amoxicillin return line that you glue a series of T fittings, then glue reducers on the right angle side of the T’s for the smaller pipes. Remember you will need two, one to distribute the water and one to converge it back to a single pipe.
-I buy order amoxil cheap amoxicillin would keep the smaller tubes a 1/2" or less. Do some calculations to see home many smaller tubes are needed to keep the flow rate constant. Remember all the 180 deg. turns to make the tubes run back and forth will cause a lot of friction, so calculate that into your flow.
- I would make the surface I am attaching to (plywood) as large as I had room for (remember you can use more than one sheet of plywood) and pack as much pipe back and forth on it as I could.
Hope this helps
Good Luck
Oh and by the way, if you do install a heater like this, you would probably be eligible for a tax credit or other incentives.
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Thermo siphoning, would entail that you have a cover over the pool, air tight, insert a hose from the top, and when the pool heats up, the pool will rise enough so that the siphoning action starts, as it goes through the tube from an over flow, to the destination…
Why dont you just get a bunch of packing bubbles, paint one side black, (spray paint), then put them on the pool?
It will transfer the Suns energy into the black bubble wrap, and into the pool water. (But, if its hot enough, it "will" actually make that pool as warm as bathwater!!, so, only use enough to cover half the pool to three quarters).
I wish you well..
Jesse
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Are you attempting to use solar power to heat the pool or to get the heat out of the pool and into you domestic water system?
If you are trying to get the heat out of the swimming pool and use it to warm up your house water:
Basically, thermo siphoning is just the same as a central heating system, but the heat generator is the swimming pool. The water from the pool should be collected from the top of the pool (with a filter) and go to a heat exchanger somewhere in your household storage system. The water should then be returned to the bottom of the pool. The loop can be pumped by a solar driven pump or rely on gravity through convection.
If you are trying to heat the water in the pool (maybe it’s indoors?) you will need take the water from the bottom or one end of the pool and pump it through a solar collector. This could be as simple as a black pvc pipe snaking back and to over a black painted insulted backing or something more sophisticated but costing more. The heated water can be returned to the pool either on top or at the other end. You’ll probably need some sort of powered pump (again maybe solar powered?) to run this although again you might get convection to work, but this would rely on the collector being lower than the level of the pool and that’s not usually possible.
Depending on circumstances you might also need to make sure the system doesn’t freeze, but that would demand a more complicated closed system where the solar heating system doesn’t actually pump the pool water anywhere.
References :
http://www.espenergy.com/solar_water_heating.htm
http://www.solar-systems.co.uk/html/how_the_system_works.htm
Although I believe it would be possible to create a thermo siphoning setup on a pool, I think it would be far less efficient than using the pool pump to move the water through a solar collector. Since you’re running your pool pump anyways, its still "free" heat. There are many on the market these days, but the first I ever saw, as a kid, was a home made one at my neighbor’s pool. Fairly simple in construction, it consisted of sheet of plywood painted flat black, propped up on an angle facing the sun. He then tapped into the return line from the pump to the pool, and detoured it into smaller black plastic pipes that crossed back and forth many times on top of the plywood. The pipes then re-converged and went back to the pool.
Some personal thoughts on designing the system:
-you would have to construct some kind of manifold, maybe a piece of pvc the same diameter as your return line that you glue a series of T fittings, then glue reducers on the right angle side of the T’s for the smaller pipes. Remember you will need two, one to distribute the water and one to converge it back to a single pipe.
-I would keep the smaller tubes a 1/2" or less. Do some calculations to see home many smaller tubes are needed to keep the flow rate constant. Remember all the 180 deg. turns to make the tubes run back and forth will cause a lot of friction, so calculate that into your flow.
- I would make the surface I am attaching to (plywood) as large as I had room for (remember you can use more than one sheet of plywood) and pack as much pipe back and forth on it as I could.
Hope this helps
Good Luck
Oh and by the way, if you do install a heater like this, you would probably be eligible for a tax credit or other incentives.
References :
http://www.maintenancemarines.com
We used two black tanks that were adjacent to the pool. when heated a thermostat would turn on a separate pump and empty the heated water into the pool. When this process was done the same thermostat would turn off the pump. I searched long to find the correct thermostat with variable settings. As for the siphoning system, You would have to connect a Y pipe on the discharge side of your pump to draw the heated water into the pool. Be sure and have a shut off valve for we started heating in late winter and the water got too hot to swim comfortably.
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