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Can’t Help it But I’m Still Like a Kid at Christmas After a Solar Install

28 July 2011

The amazing power of the sun

There is something truly amazing about actually seeing in simple terms the power of the sun in action. Such a simple and elegant way to heat water, and virtually for free, day after day. After finishing the installation, checking all our pipe runs and configuration, we turned on the system and watched as the sun warmed this family’s water in their 80 gallon storage tank from 70F to 145F in less than an hour.

I still get giddy when I see it at work and it was fun to see the excitement in the other installers with me as we heard the system humming and watched the temperature gradually rise to the desired level. The only energy used was a little power to run the controller and the pump. Simply amazing. It’s also really satisfying to simply turn off the switch for the hot water tank and know you’re still getting more hot water than you need, virtually free!