It sure beats the lame videos of people making hot water on youtube.
If I wasn't already in awe at your skills and appreciative of the help you give people which I greatly admire and learn from as well, You would have won me over for life with that statement alone.
What the FK is it with people and coiled copper tube??
Have they No clue at all whatsoever about surface area and heat transfer for a start and worked out that a 4" bit of pipe has so much more ability to absorb heat than the spread out bit of copper tube they throw on top of an open fire which is about 99% inefficient to start with? Ugggh! If I look at one more clown with coiled copper tube I'm going to throw up!
NO, that 10 Ft of 3/4 copper pipe thrown on on a fire is going to do jack all to heat your swimming pool. The losses from the inevitable above ground pool through the sides and evaporation alone are going to exceed the piddling about of heat you are putting in the thing which probably isn't even 1Kw. You'd be better off throwing an electric jug in there..... Or pumping the water through a car radiator with the electric fan going on a hot day to get a better heat rise in the water.
I have to get onto the seals I need so I can get the 200Kw heater I have converted from gas to waste oil going. It will probably be about the 2nd heater on YT that will actually work!
Anyway.....
Perhaps you could help with a couple of other things?....
The base problem I have with these controllers is I don't even understand what they can do. I recognise it is the same as asking what can you do with a computer but the fact is I am ignorant and really don't understand their capabilities or potential. Do you know of any sites or white papers on these things written for ignorant morons... IE, me, that could help me get the most fundamental and basic understanding?
Could you link to your supplier for the boards and do you have any recommendation of a startup kit that would be appropriate for the sort of use we would have for them? I know they can control a heap of things but something relevant to this would be good and also something that could switch valves etc from temp inputs? Any other shields you could recommend for practical or training purposes?
Finally, are there any places on the web you can download simple programs to get one started with the idea and concept and could modify from there.
Forgive my ignorance if it is a stupid proposition but it would be great if there were programs written which one could basicly copy and paste and start from a known good base and work and modify from there.
Thanks for your input with these things. I rarely understand what you write about them but it makes it no less interesting. :0)
At very least you motivate me to want to educate myself more about them.