Solar Pool Heaters
Solar pool heaters are very useful for your swimming pool as well as very affordable. Solar pool heaters are also friendly to environment. They can reduce the gas emissions of the green house.
Solar pool heaters are great solar equipments you can have today. They have a simple system with an affordable price. The system is simple since the thermal storage used is the pool itself. In addition, your existing filtering pool pump will also flow the water through the solar collectors.
For selecting which solar pool heaters for you to buy, you don’t have to be confused. You have to first select the type of your swimming pool. Then find out the advantages offered by those heaters.
Generally, there are two types of swimming pool, in ground swimming pool and above the ground swimming pool. Solar pool heaters are very efficient for warming your swimming pool even in the winter season. The availability of solar energy makes this system relatively inexpensive.
How do the solar pool heaters work?
First you have to know some parts of most solar pool heaters. The first part is a solar collector. The water which is to be heated is circulated through this equipment. The second is a filter. It works for eliminating the garbage before the water is circulated through the collector. The third part is a pump. It is to flow water through the collector and the filter to the swimming pool. The last part is a flow control valve. It is to redirect the water in your pool through the solar collector.
1. The water of the pool is circulated through the filter and the solar collector of the solar pool heaters. After the water is heated in this collector, it is returned to the pool. The solar collector can work as both, to heat the pool during the cold season and to cool the pool during the hot season.
2. Solar pool heaters are to circulate the water through the solar collector, either manual or automatic valve. Solar collector can only work when it has a greater temperature than the water. If it has the same temperature, it can’t heat the water. As a result, the water of the pool is simply circulated in the collector and sent back to the pool.
3. Different solar collector may be made of different materials. Before you make a decision which device you need, you have to know your purpose and the climate in your country. Different climate will determine which material you need for your solar pool heaters. An unglazed collector in the solar heater system is suitable to be used for the temperature above the freezing.
A glass covering is not applied to the unglazed solar collector. Instead, it uses a plastic or heavy-duty rubber which is treated with the UV (ultraviolet) light. It is useful to expand the life span of the panels. Unglazed collector is suitable to be used for indoor swimming pool.
On the other hand, glazed collector as one of the solar pool heaters is designed from a cooper tubing on aluminum which is covered with iron-tempered glass. It makes this system become more expensive than the unglazed collector system. It can catch the solar energy batter than unglazed collector.
