When most people build a swimming pool, they want to enjoy using it all year round. But this is not always the case. In the cold weather, most people abandon swimming due to the high pool heating costs. They end up using the pool for 4-5 months only throughout the year.
What if there was an affordable way to swim in any season hot or cold?
With a solar pool heater, you can swim anytime you want without having to worry about the cost of heating the pool. Solar pool heating is both cost-effective and efficient as compared to other pool heating methods.
How Do Solar Pool Heaters Work?
Solar pool heating involves the use of solar panels to heat your swimming pool. The solar panels are usually placed on the rooftops where they convert sunlight to solar energy then to electrical power. Apart from the panels, the solar pool heating system consists of a solar collector, pump, filter, and a flow control valve. These 4 components work together as a whole to create an automated system that heats your pool.
Using the pump, water from the pool is pumped through the filter where tiny particles are removed. The water then goes through the solar collector where it is heated and flows back to the swimming pool. In the hot seasons, you can also use the collectors to cool the swimming pool by circulating the water through them at night.
Solar pool heaters are of many different types. The type you choose will depend on the size, intended purpose, cost, location, and type of your pool among other things. Fortunately, the pool heating company is there to make sure that you find the pool heating system suited for your needs. Below are some of the options you can choose from:
- Evacuated Tube Collectors
These are the most expensive and the most efficient solar pool heaters in comparison to the others. ETCs are suited for areas that experience extremely low temperatures. They are also suitable for large indoor swimming pools.
ETC systems have vacuum tubes which absorb heat directly from the sun. This heat is then transmitted to an antifreeze solution and transferred to the swimming pool through a heat exchanger.
- Flat Plate Collectors
Flat plate collectors are made up of black aluminum or copper sheets with copper tubes that carry the water across the plates to be heated. The systems are available in both glazed and unglazed flat plate collectors. Glazed units are best for indoor pools whereas unglazed are best for outdoor pools.
- Polymer Systems
Polymer Systems are made from different types of materials such as plastic, rubber, PVC, polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene. They are mainly designed to heat small above-ground pools. However, some models can also be used to heat large in-ground swimming pools.
- Integral Collector Storage (ICS)
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