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Todo

1. Meet with Lonny as a group to discuss project's future with 4 people. His office hours can be seen on his user page.
2. Research technologies and products in use both at the farm and in general.

Helpful stuff

What's currently at the farm

• Water Heater / Storage Tank
  • We know it is a Reliance 606 series, but I neglected to find the exact model number. Will look again next time I'm there.
  • Product manual (for piping connection instructions)
  • Related patents Method of insulating the exterior of a water heater tank and Water heater construction, both directly listed on the product label and helpful in understanding how it's built internally. Contains diagrams.
• Solar Collector
  • It's a "Colt, Inc. Model C-141C" solar collector. I could not find much information online but my UNVERIFIED guess is that it's actually a closed-loop system meant to be filled with glycol and not water -- but, again, that's UNVERIFIED (I only found one mention of this after a failed Google search, and I've since lost that cite).

Other examples

• Solar water heater - The basic principles and operations of
• Hotel Perote's solar pool heating project contains the type of mathematical calculations and examples that Lonny probably wants to see.
• contains additional data logs and graphs from their testing phase.