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« on: September 11, 2008, 08:06:45 PM » |
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This system has been built up from a single panel on the roof and the battery and pump in the garage for watering the garden from 2 water buts in the garden to the 4 panel system with the 1250 litre outside tank and pump system in the house complete with a 12volt socket for charging the phones that you see here.
the pump feeds all3 toilets in the house and also the washing machine ( this is right buy the pump).
If the tank runs low i have to manually top it up but i have put in a small valve and length of pipe to maintain a air gap so there can't be any back flow when filling manually.
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petertc
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« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2008, 08:07:25 PM » |
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here are the other 2 pictures
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« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2008, 08:28:31 PM » |
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Well done petertc.... Nice imaginative use of free rain water ! I added a 1000 litre water butt on the estate for the kitchen garden here filled by four collector troughs but haven't needed to fill it up from the mains this year at all .....  CD |
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2012..RELENTLESS IN THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON
90 tubes, 10.5 kws PV, ALL NAVITRON SUPPLIED..!
Hens, Jaspi pellet boiler Semi Self Sufficient and loving it.....
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petertc
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« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2009, 01:49:30 PM » |
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Just some updated pic's showing the solar panels now pointing SSW rather NE! should get some better charging during the winter months
also a new battery as the previous one gave up and i got a better charge controller.
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petertc
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« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2009, 01:50:45 PM » |
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more pics of a new filter fitted
second pic shows filter removed for cleaning
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petertc
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« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2009, 08:28:33 PM » |
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Here are a few more pic's
I have now changed the pipe work to 40 mm pipe ( the 25 mm pipe kept getting blocked)
Also it was a bit droopy and did not look to good.
Also added a water too valve on the bath so we can feed a hose which i run to the tank.
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« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2009, 09:14:45 PM » |
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Nice one Petertc
like all good systems yours seems to be evolving, Iam watching with interest, next year I want to save rainwater mainly for the ericacious plants I love to grow, but who knows where it will go?
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« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2009, 07:01:51 PM » |
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Petertc give us all a link to the pump. Nice setup i'd be well pleased if it was at Hugo towers.  |
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« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2009, 11:50:11 AM » |
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Thank's for the link . I have seen your size tank on fleebay for £ 127 + £35 delivery charge, item # 130333811954 The guy has eight of them I think that is a good price. What size solar panells from Navitron would be needed, as I haven't a clue, plumbing is no problem to me but electrics are. |
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« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2009, 12:26:30 PM » |
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depends on how many times you flush and how often you use the washing machine .
i have about 45 ( opps edit 60) watts of panels and a 100 amp hour battery.
during the winter the battery can get a bit low.
that is a good price for the tank i think i paid £230 ish
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« Reply #11 on: October 03, 2009, 12:42:10 PM » |
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Thank's for the link . I have seen your size tank on fleebay for £ 127 + £35 delivery charge, item # 130333811954 The guy has eight of them I think that is a good price. What size solar panells from Navitron would be needed, as I haven't a clue, plumbing is no problem to me but electrics are. Just break the project down into two projects. Much easier. Install the rainwater system first and simply use the grid. Then install grid connected PV. I think it's a bit weird to buy a battery, chargecontroller and a bunch of solar panels just to keep one tiny pump off-grid while the rest of your house is on-grid. It's a much more efficiënt use of resources (financial, labor, material and irradiation) to build a grid-tied PV-system. Other than that it's very cool system! |
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« Reply #12 on: October 03, 2009, 01:36:00 PM » |
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Yes i do agree to a certain extent, the grid tie PV that i did was done about 2 years after the rainwater harvesting.
But the one advantage with the battery is that we can still flush the toilets if there is a power cut!
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« Reply #13 on: October 03, 2009, 05:31:56 PM » |
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Yeah, I remember we had a powercut once when I was eight or nine years old, but I can't really remember if it affected the water companies. I think not. They probably have a backup system though, because the hydrants connect to the water mains as well. (at least I hope they still extinguish fires when there's a blackout...) But maybe the grid is unreliable where you live, but then I'd still use a grid-tie PV with backup for the entire house, because I wouldn't want my ice cream to go bad every other week!  |
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« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2009, 02:37:45 PM » |
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Good info from both of you.
As I'm not as yet sure how to set up a grid-tie PV and probably haven't got enough room (there is room for one 30 tube 47mm direct solar hot water) south facing, that is not enough probably.
But petertc's setup looks good, not too expensive.
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