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Worcester Bosch Solar Panels

Greenskies solar panels have been developed to provide a sustainable method of providing hot water for the home. The solar panels are designed to be used in conjunction with a hot water cylinder so that the enrgy from the suns rays can be stored and used throughout the day. In most cases the best and most convenient location for the solar panels is on a south facing roof. If you havent got a south facing roof then a south westerly will do. Failing that it is possible to mount the solar panels on brackets to give the same angle that you would get on a roof and to put those brackets on a patio or somewhere in the garden, or even on a flat roof. The important thing is that that right angle and a south facing aspect maximises the exposure to the sun.

When the suns rays hit the solar panel the heat from the rays is transfered into the water and glycol which is an anti freeze solution which is being pumped through the solar panels through the copper tubes and this water is taken down through a coil in the cylinder to heat the hot water.

 

Is there enough heat from the sun in the UK to make solar panels worthwhile?

 

A lot of the time the British Isles is covered in a blanket of cloud. These panels have been developed to make maximum use of any sunlight that is around, so difused sunlight is fine and the solar panel will pick up heat. It is interesting to note that the UK receives about 65% of the solar radiation that you get from a country like Spain, so we are not that far down. In the summer you can get 80 to 90% of your hot water requirement from the solar panels alone and even in the winter 20 to 30% is realistic. The solar panels really do make a valuable contribution to your heating of hot water.

 

 

 

Installing Solar Panels

The work on the roof is kept to a minimum, apart from mounting the brackets and placing the panels on them. The connections to the pipe work are done by a simple push fit connection which makes the whole thing a quick and easy installation. The copper pipework is connected up inside the roof space.

 

Pump housing

The pump house contains the filling point, pressure releif valve, pressure gauge, an expansion vessel plus a couple of thermometers to monitor the temperature of the flow and return from the solar panel. The pump housing also contains the pump which moves the water from the solar panel down through the cylinder coil and back up to the solar panel again. The whole thing is designed to make the installation as simple as possible. The whole thing is controlled by a simple plugin control unit.


Control Panel

The control panel measures the temperature of the water in the solar panel and also the temperature of the water in the cylinder. It is a fully automatic system.

 

As with all Worcester products installer traing is a very important part of the overall service. Invicta Gas engineers are constanly updating their training to keep fully uptodate with new technology. At Worcesters academies installers gain essential hands-on experience of how to mount solar panels on a roof and fill the system.

 

What seemed like an alternative new age technology a few years ago is rapidly becoming main stream. Not only is this environmentally friendly technology it is also plumber friendly.

 

Find out more about Solar Panels and how they can save you money by contacting us today.