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the solar hot water system you can see on this blog has cost approximately £200 all in. In particular the flat plate collector was made out of mostly recycled materials! Here in the UK people regularly pay anywhere in the region of £6000 - £8000 for a system which we regard as inferior. And what's more it has a horrific amout of embodied carbon due to shipping from China. So have a go yourself and we hope this blog will assist you in your system design and construction..
below you'll find the blog area which we're updating constantly with new info regarding the controller...coming soon...a dedicated PCB!!!


here goes…

the first posting on the blog!

what’s needed is to trace back a number of steps and show how we’ve got to where we are now…we’ll do that with lots of photos and documents to show the history of the system.  any questions please put a comment on the relevant posting and we’ll get back to you…

it all started back in April as with many things these days with a bit of googling…which led me to here.

http://www.reuk.co.uk/DIY-Solar-Water-Heating-Prototype.htm

there and then I decided that I wanted to have a go at a full size system based on this prototype.   the photo shows the collector in early stages…basically a couple of redundant hot water tanks topped and tailed and flattened out to become the collector…

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on top you can see the copper pipes

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