Homemade Solar Pool Heater

Hey, this is fun. How can you actually build a Homemade Solar Pool Heater?

To have a diy Solar heater, we have to find a way to funnel the energy and warmth of the solar rays into your pool.

The problem here is, that your pool is not big enough. By that I mean, the surface area of your pool is not big enough to catch enough sunlight to heat up the pool to 80 °F or more, since your pool probably has some depth.

If you live in an area where it does, you anyway will wonder more about cooling. This you find on another page on this website, but let me state that in order to cool your pool the same technology applies, only vice versa.

The basic technology is that you need a bigger surface area so that more solar power can heat up the water - or the cool of the night can help cool it down..

The easiest solution for this is to pump the water into a wide but flat area exposed to the sun.

How about your roof? Cools your house in the same instant, since the energy goes into the water.

Then the water heats up quickly and can be pumped back into your pool.

But since you do not want the water to vaporize because of the temperature it is ideal to keep the water in tubes and pump them through..

These tubes need to be exposed maximally to sunlight to heat up the water.

This guy here has done a very basic version of this idea

Here is also a very good article about this topic from homepower.com

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