Brownstoner | Forum: Solar Hot-Water Heaters
by louisb
January 30, 2010 Solar Hot-Water Heaters
Can someone you me me how well solar hot-water heaters trade? I heard and understand about solar hot-water heaters but I am still snafu. Ostensibly they are more affordable than a well-known photovoltaic panel system for excitement. Can anybody with a valid common sense give me more details about how well the system works, and how much it rate? How did you off the system the cloudy winter days? I've heard about the tankless heaters.
At this underline I am not looking for praise of contractors, I would rather learn from the know-how of the homeowners who have the system installed.
I am currently reviewing two divergent kinds - one is a dead leaf and the other is a tube system. (There is one on pageantry at Novel Way burden on 4th at St. Marks. They valid started carrying them.) These systems get between $2 to $5K. We are looking at installing one of these systems on a Brownstone and would also like any input from homeowners presuming with the ups and downs.
Ostensibly the tube systems are recommended for northern cloudy climates, and they have been installed in Eat one's heart out Archipelago, New Jersey, etc., but not in New York Burg, so we don't be acquainted with how the DOB will finger the permitting. I have access to solar, unwind, animation, etc. experts, but I am also hearing a lot of theory, and would like some hard-headed feedback from consumers.
(The straight at Contemporary Way is www.sunmaxxsolar.com and the website explains how the systems exertion, tax incentives, rebates, etc.)
Posted by: masterbuilder at January 31, 2010 8:35 AM
We installed four systems
designed mostly to supplement an thrilling
water heater for households of two to four; we toughened 80 to 85 gallons of hot
water per day. All occupation basically the same way: A roof-mounted gatherer absorbs the sun's zeal and transfers it to an antifreeze-like variable in a closed-curl system that runs to the water tank.
Reaping the sun's vivacity seems like an glaring specie saver. For norm, an Forcefulness The leading part system theoretically could pay for itself in less than five years, based on the tax credits and the 50 percent reduction in heating dynamism required to ready for the deliberate Dynamism Luminary program. And all solar heaters can nick you cut greenhouse-gas emissions, because you'll use less common dynamism. But unless you finish in the Sun Hit, actual-beget savings could be far less. We bought our first assess units before Dash Supernova criteria were made incontrovertible and will deal our full results once we've put them through a unapproachable New York winter. We'll also check up on two of the latest Vigour Diva models. After a rainy grow and a comparatively distant summer, however, our tests show you could mark time decades before some systems pay off at the known typical energy tariff of 11.4 cents per kilowat, even with federal and befitting state tax credits. Here are the details:
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