Second best is a loser.
Is solar heating your lost sale?
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 Interesting statistic: - 78 % of people involved in selling and installing solar heating systems are not from the heating or plumbing trades. Where are they coming from? Many of them are electricians, auto mechanics, millwrights, handymen, educated do-it-yourselfers, or even home owners without any technical background at all. It is very possible these days to buy everything including collectors, storage tanks, controls, condensing boilers and furnaces without ever setting foot in a plumbing/heating retail store or wholesale outlet. And why bother if traditional heating and plumbing suppliers are not even considering stocking any "high risk" or slow moving merchandise?
The Internet has replaced the salesmen and showrooms. All information is retrievable in a nanosecond. The Internet has made trade buyers and consumers smarter than ever, even smarter than some salespeople in wholesale outlets.
Is the Solar Thermal industry facing the same fortune as hydronic heating?
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Product Profile
30 panels installation?
FlowCon MAX FA 02 is making it possible!
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 The new FlowCon MAX FA 02 solar pump module with all medium-bearing parts made of brassfrom PAW features one of the most advanced engineering solutions in the solar thermal industry.
Designed for large residential, commercial and institutional applications, the newly introduced module incorporates many specific for large scale application features. These include thinks like high head and high flow 3-speed circulator from WILO (Star S30).
As well, 1" sweat copper flat sealing unions on all 4 connections. The newly developed flow gauge has borosilicate glass window with scale, where current flow rate is indicated. For increased operational safety of the system, an integrated air scoop is used as a continuous air separator in the solar supply line.
Completely pre-assembled and pressure-tested module has an integrated flushing and filling unitbelow the pump, for a clear and simple handling which now comes with GHT (garden hose) threads. High quality and unique in design shut-off valves in supply and return lines have built-in all-metal check valves. Low resistance check valves- 7 ¾" (200mm) of W.C. are beneficial for commercial systems with large collector arrays.
The developed FlowCon family of pre-assembled Solar Pump Modules from PAW is the nighttime cold medicine contractors are looking for. The PAW modules are fundamental shift from component-based custom designs to assembly line - performance based specifications. German engineering has franchised the look of other hydronic equipment and it's about time we started to do the same with solar thermal.
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Combined Systems: Heat Pumps and Solar
Exclusive for our readers from SUN & Wind ENERGY magazine
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Demand for the combination of solar thermal energy with heat pumps has been rising significantly since the middle of 2008", explains
Florian Stöber, Product Manager at August Brötje
GmbH. Outlining the reasons behind this trend,
Christian Pronold from Bioenergieteam GmbH says: "The use of various different energy sources means
you are not as exposed to price fluctuations for the individual
sources."
Heat pumps are nothing new: they have been in
use for decades in countries such as Germany, Austria
and France. When a solar energy system is added, the
heat pump can be switched off completely in summer.
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