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can anyone advise price and fitting for two solar water panels

Where are you located

Kuzeymak in Karakum have got a special offer on until 1st May. A neighbour recently used them and is very happy.

I would also recommend the Kuzeymak system.

I wouldn’t the tubs keep blowing. Stick to the old way is best

Do they keep blowing. Know some people who are very happy with their system.

Is it not when people turn the system on and put cold water into hot pipes. That would cause a break.

gates wrote: ↑

Sun 21 Apr 2024 6:00 am

I wouldn’t the tubs keep blowing. Stick to the old way is best

Had ours for about 3 years - no blown tubes.

gates wrote: ↑

Sun 21 Apr 2024 6:00 am

I wouldn’t the tubs keep blowing. Stick to the old way is best

if you mean with "old way" the local made ones, i can assure you they are not "the best".
basically they are inefficient (at its best) and wasted money.

but when you will see with the vacuum type heaters a payback is another subject.

Well I wouldn’t change and know people that have and had problems. The old type are great

Had old type for 14 years with no problems.

Interesting post, after 30 years one of the old panels has started to leak. Unfortunately nothing seems to be made to last anymore. The hot water tank was over 20 years before it went, not holding my breath on the new one to last as long.

here, we had many discussions about the"old ones".
for the summer they are ok, but in winter they are often useless, they often even "destroy heat".
they often only can "pre heat" the water (eg, from 15 to 20 or 25 degree) and you need to use the electric on top.
eg, you want one or two showers, each 10 liters.
for this you need to heat up the "standart 60-80 liter" hot water depot, which needs often 3 kWh (or, eg, 2 x half an hour) a day.
or 100 kWh a month, which is the eqivalent to a 10 kg gas bottle and does cost roughly double as the gas bottle.

pls note: for 10 liters heated up from say, 15 to 45 degree you need (approx) 1(kcal) x 10 (liter) x 30 (tempdifference) x 1,25 (losses, approx) = 360 kcal, which is approx 0,4 kWh. makes, say, 1 kWh a day for 20 liters.
theoretically this would be sufficient for 200 showers from one gas bottle, but we have other losses. in reality you come to 100 - 120 showers and you get hot water for the kitchen and sinks on top.

the left over energy stored in the "storage tank", due to bad insulation and "flow back", is cooling down again.
so, a lot of waisted energy and money..

pls note: teknecik power station runs on approx 37% efficiency. so, for 3,7 kWh electricity 1 liter of "very dirty" fuel needs to be "burnt".

people think by having one of these local "solar haeters" they save energy, do "someting for the environment" , but it is very doubtful that they achieve anything.

With the old sort you don’t have to leave pump on you can shower in power cuts if mains not running. Since last winter January 2023 i have had to use my immersion heater 4 times for a shower so how do you work out they usless. I think for here they are best but that’s what I find

gates wrote: ↑

Wed 24 Apr 2024 10:01 am

With the old sort you don’t have to leave pump on you can shower in power cuts if mains not running. Since last winter January 2023 i have had to use my immersion heater 4 times for a shower so how do you work out they usless. I think for here they are best but that’s what I find

very easy.
look at yesterday to today. yesterday it was sunny, the storage tanks upper part had 50 degree.
during the night it cooled down, too much to my opinion and maybe even below the shower temp.
today morning it shows rainy.
so, you may can have a single shower, eg, before work... but a second one becomes difficult... even if the " shower partner" goes immidiately after you.
so, if you are a "single household" and maybe happy with a from time to time 35 degree shower, or just delay the shower to next week... you are maybe ok.
as they have to use the immersion heater much more often as you think, for a 2 (+) family "full in life" a better and more reliable system is mandatory.
this applies for the solar (water) collectors and for the storage tank.
not the "solar panels" give you hot water. its the combination of heat collection and storage. its a "system", which even includes the water pipes.
(even) Kuzeymak explains the limits for their system which definitely is not "latest technology" (storage tank i would say too small, 5 cm foam insulation, horizontal orientation, heat transfer with inner copper pipe)

the electricity question is another issue.
that people pay (100) thousands for homes and (10) thousands for cars whatever, but not having an electric back up system is not really understandable..

15 replies...not one person can say the price as per the original question

As i asked were the job

Get a gas boiler - problem solved! I ditched my solar panels years ago, the one I inherited with the house was a tube system, the tubes failed and it leaked - in the summer it leaked boiling water which was not a good thing if you happened to wander underneath it. Replaced it with the local type very briefly but like hot water on demand so ditched the whole system and put my main water tank on the ground where I can get at it. Pumps on the ground as well. It is a simple setup and the only minor failing is if the electricity goes off we have no water pressure due to no gravity tank. Used to that now as well. We don't work so not in a rush but when we want hot water we have it - all the time. Would love to connect the whole thing to the mains water but live in Catalkoy - the land where the water gets switched off in the summer for up to ten days at a time!! If we did not have a well we would stink all summer - lol.

kibsolar1999 wrote: ↑

Thu 25 Apr 2024 7:37 am

... even) Kuzeymak explains the limits for their system which definitely is not "latest technology" ...

Do you know if there is a supplier in the north who can provide and fit the latest technology by way of solar water heating please?

Reyntj wrote: ↑

Thu 25 Apr 2024 10:34 am

15 replies...not one person can say the price as per the original question

Maybe because nobody has had the old style fitted recently...

The reason for no reply is i aked what area. The old style is fitted every day

I agree totally with Gates. We have the old type for 17 years. Yes not much good in winter. So we switch to gas. I worked in a my friends luxury Villa to snag all the problems. One major problem was, that the Glass tube type was over efficient in Summer months. To the point of Highly dangerous. Tubes were cracking and constant problems with the domestic Hot water. I measured the temperature in July it was close to boiling

. The joints and connections on his expensive system where blowing. Just too hot and no way to lower the temperature. The final straw was when his elederly mother got scalded from the Bathroom Vanity bowl tap. This would not be allowed in many countries for water so hot to come from a domestic tap.

I cured the situation by applying a 3/4 partial covering of the panels with 3 layers of the dark green heat reducing mesh . ( on sale at most Yapis.) When I researched the glass tube sytem , I even found a video of a guy in the UK , (with their dismal summers) who arived home to a overheated burst system.

I did if you read. I asked for were he lived area how can anyone quote if you don’t know what area he lives in?

I did if you read. I asked for were he lived area how can anyone quote if you don’t know what area he lives in?

What does it matter where he lives? is a water system more expansive in Lapta or Catalkoy !!

What does it matter where he lives? is a water system more expansive in Lapta or Catalkoy !!
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Sometimes the price depends on the size of the property (value) and the car in the driveway.

No i don’t travel everywhere so I can’t give him a price that’s why my price could be different from elsewhere what’s the problem with that

gates wrote: ↑

Sun 05 May 2024 11:45 am

No i don’t travel everywhere so I can’t give him a price that’s why my price could be different from elsewhere what’s the problem with that

Also price is about access were the tanks are positioned lots of things determine the price