Product Description

A guide to heating water with Solar power.
Solar Water Heating is an invaluable reference guide for anyone with basic plumbing and woodworking skills interested in constructing their own solar 'collector'. A detailed and fully illustrated how-to approach allows the reader to construct either a 'radiator' or a 'clip fin' type of solar water heating system.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #236325 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 68 pages

Electronics and Beyond
'This book is a must...' (for previous edition)

From the Publisher
'Solar Water Heating: DIY' is a bestseller from CAT Publications, the publishing team at the Centre for Alternative Technology. We are a charitable publisher, we print our books and guides locally using recycled paper whenever possible. Visit our website to find out about other CAT services and get information on green energy, renewable technologies and sustainable living.

Customer Reviews

An excellent guide for DIY solar panels.
Although this publication is more a pamphlet then a book, it's contents had exactly everything I wanted - 1) How to make the panels, the recommended size and position on the roof, the plumbing layout 2) How to make the electronic pump controller, all the bits needed to do it yourself. and a simple circuit diagram (Well, not that simple, but just about within a DIY-ers capability) 3) Names and addresses of organisations that supply parts and advice

Excellent, concise, practical
This 24 page booklet provides all the information needed to build and install a DIY solar heating system. The author is knowledgable and his text is pleasingly free from from padding and dogma - e.g. he suggests the ideal location and orientation for a solar collector then continues to specify a range of measurements within which the collector's performance won't be adversely affected.

The time I saved in not having to plough through pages of irrelevant Google results (as one other reviewer suggested) is worth far more to me than the modest cover price of this book. Probably the best "how to" book I've read.

Pamplet for 'Greenies'
All the information is concise and valid - but this is not a book, it's a 'pamplet', and ought to be given away free with plumbers solder.

Don't devalue it's data, it's just that a good deal of the £5.99 charged SHOULD have gone to a good cause - say £5.98 of it.