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  1. cheeryble

    Solar Heating design brainteaser

    <Buy some kind of UV stabilized pipe. Temperatures can get quite high at times> A friend showed me the same type of pipe which has been on the top of his garden wall, sometimes with water in, sometimes not. After 4 years it feels good as new. <You should probably enclose the pipes in a glass...
  2. cheeryble

    Solar Heating design brainteaser

    Thankyou for the comments and the reference site. I am tending toward a sealed loop which could have a simple header tank. The problem then becomes making a budget heat exchanger. (I am on the committee of the apartment block involved.....we are just finishing a rebuild of the pool system with...
  3. cheeryble

    Solar Heating design brainteaser

    Hi from Chiangmai I am getting my head around possible solar heating for a swimming pool in an apartment block. The pool, pumps, etc, are on the 3rd floor. The solar collector (black irrigation tubing) would be on the roof effectively the 12th floor. So a loop is needed rising to the collector...

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