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Finally getting around to making a solar water heater for the aquaponic system.

I’ll hook it up and test it tomorrow at some point.

Really this is a proof of concept (for myself - as obviously others have done this) so when we go to build our house on land this might be one of the hot water systems we end up using.

#grownostr #homesteading #sendit

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Kbonk 2y ago

2?s what pump you thinking abt, how many feet did you stuff in there

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fringeElement 2y ago

What’s up, kbonk!?

So I used nearly 100’ of 1/2” pex and my 800gph pump is way overkill. Like pushes too much water through the system before it can heat up.

I still am running it as it gives me about +2-6° F depending on the sun on a given day.

I think the key will be to either get a smaller pump -OR- more likely, make a quick diverter downstream from the pump so as to not tax the pump any hard but be able to control flow rates.

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fringeElement 2y ago

Oh also I ended up buying a whole roll of pex since what I had was only around 40-50’ so I really need to just do an update on the whole thing lol