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I live in Florida and want to build a 3'x3' sealed box with a 100' roll of 3/4" i.d. black plastic coiled up in it. My aim is to provide enough hot water for a 5 minute shower ; I live alone and like cooler showers at around 90 f. water temp. Until now, ive been using my 40 gal. electric water heater .
Is anyone using black plastic pipe to heat domestic hot water or swimming pool with good sucess ? How long does it take to heat up the water in direct sunlight, diffused sunlight, and no sunlight and what kind of water temps. are you getting out of it ?
i dont know about for house use, but we have a system like that for the pool... the pump takes the water through a seres of black pipes that are laid out on the top of our shed...
but it actually often gets too hot so we had to put a rgulator on it to keep it around 80 lol and were in ct...
i dont know about for house use, but we have a system like that for the pool... the pump takes the water through a seres of black pipes that are laid out on the top of our shed...
but it actually often gets too hot so we had to put a rgulator on it to keep it around 80 lol and were in ct...
so it could absolutly work
Yikes...I think i need to check the max. temp. this black plastic pipe can stand .........and possibly go with a roll of Copper tubing instead.
We use to use a plastic barrel. mounted in a rack above our heads as a shower at our camp we used even druig the winter on sunny texas days.We actually could get quite a fewer showers out of it;no problem. Pretty simple and lasted for years. Nothing new really.
Yikes...I think i need to check the max. temp. this black plastic pipe can stand .........and possibly go with a roll of Copper tubing instead.
This summer is supposed to be the year we put the greenhouse in (although the way projects are stacking up, that looks questionable). We found some old "hot air" solar system components and plan to use the glass-topped insulated metal boxes (each 3'x4'), run copper tubing in them and use them to heat multiple 55 gal water drums in the greenhouse, under the vegetable beds, for winter heating.
This summer is supposed to be the year we put the greenhouse in (although the way projects are stacking up, that looks questionable). We found some old "hot air" solar system components and plan to use the glass-topped insulated metal boxes (each 3'x4'), run copper tubing in them and use them to heat multiple 55 gal water drums in the greenhouse, under the vegetable beds, for winter heating.
Once you get that done, I would really appreciate seeing some pictures and hearing how well it operates for you. Please PM me when youre all done with the project. Many thanks.
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