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In Focus: Off Grid Solar Power Billboard Lighting
The biggest challenge associated with lighting the scores of billboards located along remote stretches of highways and byways throughout the US is the accessibility of AC power. When AC power is not readily available or too costly to access, SEPCO’s ultra reliable grid-free solar power systems—combined with energy efficient, high performance LED flood light fixtures [...]
Is it Time to get a Solar Water Heater?
Solar thermal systems offer a great and affordable way to finally gogreen without spending a fortune. Solar thermal systems aretraditionally far less expensive than solar electric systems. Bothprovide renewable energy for your home, but solar thermal is great as it greatly reduces your gas bill each month, which in turn saves not onlymoney on your [...]
Solar Water Isolation Valve 101
Isolation Valve AKA: solar bypass Anisolation valve should be a part of every solar water heater to isolatethe solar tank in case of a problem, while still allowing the backupwater heater to remain in service. The isolation valve is a manualvalve or valves placed in both the incoming and outgoing potable waterlines to the solar [...]
Solar Storage Tank 101
Solar Storage TankAKA: solar water tank, solar tank Asolar water tank is an insulated water storage tank. Cold water thatused to go directly to your conventional water heater enters the solartank and solar-heated water exits. In closed-loop systems, the water isheated by contact with a coil of pipe containing the water orantifreeze that circulates through [...]
Solar Batch Heaters 101
Fora hundred years, simple solar batch heaters have been used in theUnited States. The term ICS (integrated collector storage) tells usthat the collector and storage tank are combined into one unit. A tankof water, enclosed in an insulated box covered with glass, is placed inthe sun facing south. Cold water is piped to the bottom [...]