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Solar tubes to hot water tank distance

Ubbquittious · 2022-06-10 14:25:53

I am thinking of putting in solar tubes to heat the wter soon. How far away can the panel be from the tank before it starts causing a problem? At the moment it looks like it will be at least 20m, is that too much?

10-06-2022 2:25pm

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Ubbquittious

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I am thinking of putting in solar tubes to heat the wter soon. How far away can the panel be from the tank before it starts causing a problem? At the moment it looks like it will be at least 20m, is that too much?

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#2 10-06-2022 5:13pm

Jonathan

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What do you mean by 20m? Are you talking about the collector to cylinder distance? Are are you talking about the total pipework in the system? i.e. distance * 2?

Total pipework distance in my system is about 18m and no issue.

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#3 11-06-2022 10:24am

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Shorter is better but for longer runs insulate the hell out of the pipes to conserver as much heat as possible.

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