solar power panel
Solar energy is a great alternative for heating your pool or for heating water for inside your home. The materials needed to create solar collection devices and solar panels are becoming increasingly inexpensive due to advances in technology.
If you are looking at a diagram of solar energy panels that can be used to build a water heating system, you may not be 100% clear on the function of each component in the system or how they all work together to produce usable hot water from the sun’s energy. This overview should help clarify things for you.
The basic principle behind a system of solar energy panels for heating water is the transfer of heat energy from available sunlight to the water. Building a system to do this is in effect harnessing the sun’s energy in the most efficient way for a practical purpose in your home (i.e., providing hot water for a pool, hot tub, or water heater).
When looking at a diagram of solar energy panels, here are the primary components you will see:
1. The solar collector is similar in some ways to a regular photovoltaic solar panel used to make electricity. However, instead of converting the sun’s photons into electricity, the solar collector is engineered to transfer as much heat as possible from the sun’s energy to the water that flows directly through it.
2. The cold water pipe is simply a pipe filled with tap water that feeds directly into the solar collector so that it can be heated up.
3. The hot water pipe is an extension of the cold water pipe, but it is the portion that comes out (the output) of the solar collector and contains hot water.
4. The boiler receives the hot water from the hot water pipe and transfers the heat from this water to water in the boiler’s tank. In other words, the hot water from the first pipe itself is not actually used in the water heater that supplies the home or pool. Rather, the heat energy from the hot water pipe is merely transferred from one to the other.
5. Finally, the controller is the mechanism that controls the pump that pushes the cold water through the cold water pipe to the solar collector. It can be manually adjusted depending upon energy needs.
Solar power systems are a great way to save money on energy usage while protecting the environment by reducing our reliance on fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas.
You can build your own solar panels at home for less than $200 and save thousands in energy costs: http://www.dyi-solarpanel.info.
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