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To protect against this, some users drain the water at night, others use alcohol or glycol and a heat exchanger. The result is a heating system with greater complexity. It requires regular maintenance to ensure the overheating and freeze protection are working, and a failure would destroy the costly solar panels.
A general rule regarding solar heating is that 1 square foot of sunlight can heat 1.5 gallons of water per day. I assumed I would get closer to 1 gallon per square foot. • Second, I have lots of low efficiency panels, rather than a few highly efficient ones.
Or FCU. The solar is in the garden on a pergola roof and the consumer unit is all the way at the front of the house. Later on will need to run SWA but it’s quite extensive work I’ll leave for later.
