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Revision as of 07:44, 1 February 2010
What is this?
This is a discussion page for our AEF Solar Water Heater project. It contains information we might find useful and it can, over time, evolve into the full Appropedia article we're required to make for class.
How to use this talk page
- Log in to Appropedia
- Click the "edit" tab on the top of the page to edit existing material or click the "+" tab to add a new post.
- If relevant, please sign your posts by adding -~~~~ at the end (that's one dash and four tildes). Appropedia will automatically convert that to your name and the current time/date.
Todo
- Meet with Lonny as a group to discuss project's future with 4 people. His office hours are on his user page.
- 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, etc.)
- Related patents (Both directly listed on the product label and helpful in understanding how it's built internally. They contain 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 - Basic principles and operations
- Parras, Mexico's solar water heater projects - Contains data logs and graphs from their testing phase
- Hotel Perote's solar pool heating project - One of the specific sites in Parras. Contains additional examples of mathematical/physical calculations that Lonny probably wants to see from a bigger group