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Solar tubes to hot water tank distance

  • 10-06-2022 3:25pm
    #1
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 5,895 ✭✭✭


    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
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 7,826 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    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.



  • #3
    SemperFidelis
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭SemperFidelis


    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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