Solar Panels

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Dave Long

Solar Panels

Does anyone have experience with how long it takes to recover the cost associated with augmenting a radiant heat system with solar panels in conjunction with a boiler?
Also, which controls are the most reliable and efficient when using a boiler in conjunction with solar panels?

Constantin

It depends on a lot of factors...

... location, insolation, orientation, installed cost, etc.

... if you have a PC and a copy of MS Excel, I highly recommend you check out the free retscreen cost/benefit models. They incorporate pretty up-to-date performance for all the stuff you can buy, have irradiation/insolation maps, etc. Nice work, even I'm not a great fan of using Windows-specific VB macros to get the job done.

Installing the panels early in the life of the house (i.e. while it's being built) is usually going to be a lot cheaper than a retrofit later on. Optimizing the panels for winter pickup by installing them "steeper" than the latitude of the installation site is another common thing to do.

Paul Pollets

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Dave, are you from New Jersey?

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George Peteya_4

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Paul, how can you tell? Is it something Dave said, or is it our over-use of prepositional phrases?