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Can solar DHW and space heating

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Mike Dunn
Mike Dunn Member Posts: 189
in THE MAIN WALL
I get my 4-5 hours a night in. It's hard to sleep with all this stuff swimming in my head.

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  • Mike Dunn
    Mike Dunn Member Posts: 189
    play nice with a complete geo-thermal system

    Do you think a home using geothermal with mod con backup for it's radiant load and forced air load can play nicely with some solar pre-heat or solar DHW? Or should the two be seperated but in the same house or should the solar just go home and the de-superheater be invited to play?
  • MechTech_2
    MechTech_2 Member Posts: 84
    Another sleepless night!

    Wow! I was just winding down, and then I read your thread. I guess I'll check in at 3AM.
  • MechTech_2
    MechTech_2 Member Posts: 84
    Geothermal & Solar

    We have a couple of jobs coming up where the solar is tied into the return lines from the geothermal heat pump, and they are thermally storing the energy in the ground. The DHW is de-superheater and the back-up boiler, can I integrate the solar into the DHW as well? We just used a 4-coil Latento tank from Germany that had 8 ports, 2 ports solar, 2 ports boiler, 2 ports space heating output, 2 ports indirect instantaneous DHW. Maybe we could use a 3 coil tank and appropriate controls?

    Al
  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 26,580
    Hey Al

    where did you come across the 4 coil tank?

    hr
    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
  • MechTech_2
    MechTech_2 Member Posts: 84
    4-coil tank...

    from IVT in Germany. Go to www.ivt-group.com and click on the Latento tab.

    Al
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