How Do You Use Solar Panels To Heat A Pool?
Are you getting the most use out of your swimming pool, or is your swimming season just too short? Would you like to be able to enjoy your pool on those warm days when the sun is beautiful but the water is too cold to get in? The obvious answer is to heat your pool, but pool heaters use fossil fuels to generate heat. Solar panels, on the other hand, allow you to heat your pool water without environmental concerns. Consider how a solar-powered pool heater works. Your existing pool plumbing pulls the water out of the pool, pumps it through the filter for cleaning and then pumps it back into the pool, where the cycle begins again. A solar pool heating system is installed in the middle of the existing system. Beyond the filter, new pipes are installed that carry the water to the solar panel, where it is heated by the sun’s rays and passed back into the existing plumbing to return to the pool. Deciding whether solar heating will work for you requires you (or your contractor) to: Determine y
