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My Parabolic Trough Water Heater | 27 comments (27 topical, editorial)
Re: Compound Parabola Solar Trough Water Heater (3.00 / 0) (#23)
by brianc4 on Fri Sep 19th, 2008 at 10:01:43 AM MST
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spinningmagnets,

   I have read all about the Letotho project and I have already been collecting parts to build such a unit. I liked that they used all off the shelf components. I already have a brand new large turbo charger and I have several good friends who are good with hvac stuff so I have them thinking about the freon and expansion valve setup for the unit.

   I like the link you sent me in the second post about the double parabola design and it has alot of merit. I am not worried about the tracking aspect of the array as I have a tracking unit I have built from off the shelf components that is proving to work very well. There should be some signifigant improvements to effiency if you track one of the double parabola designs and I will be thinking about that!
Brian Clark

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Re: Compound Parabola Solar Trough Water Heater (3.00 / 0) (#24)
by spinningmagnets (velmis1450bc(at)aol(dot)com) on Fri Sep 19th, 2008 at 10:56:36 AM MST
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Brianc4, Shoot me a PM, would like to share info. Don't want to post anything until I have working hardware. (must also learn how to resize pics)

velmis1450bc@aol.com

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Re: Compound Parabola Solar Trough Water Heater (3.00 / 0) (#25)
by brianc4 on Fri Sep 19th, 2008 at 11:18:37 AM MST
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spinningmagnets,

I sent you my email address bclark@blueriver.net Let me know what you need.

I use a shareware program called photoelf to resize my pics there are many out there. This one lets you batch pictures to physical size & filesize & works well I think it was about $20.00 and available for immediate download.
Brian Clark

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My Parabolic Trough Water Heater | 27 comments (27 topical, 0 editorial)

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