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Old 12-15-2009, 10:48 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Christ View Post
Nice to meet you, and good first post here. Welcome to EM!

Question - What effect do you think a solar pre-heater would have to using ground water in this setup? A smallish one, not one that's sufficient to heat the water for the home.
Thanks for the welcome!

If you could raise the input water temperature 10-20 degrees above the ground temperature, it would work well. I even pondered having another water tank without the covering on it setting next to the actual heating tank for a buffer to increase the temperature with the ambient room temperature.

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