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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