Question - RO pumps

Posted: Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:22 PM Quote

from what i read so far, a normal pump once in a closed ciruit can lift 3 times as much, example from the net i found a 2 meters lift so it should lift easily 6 metters.

I was planning to place the solar less them 4 meters hight so it should be fine.

Bu as you said i have to test it out and see if it is true. In addition i m not sure if i should buy a solar pannel and cover the costs with a solar pannel. So i have to see whats the cheaper solution.

According to my maths if i need 800Watts total heaters, to cover the costs i would need a 200/300Watt pannel, so i have to see how much it cost me a solar heater and a 200/300Watt pannel.

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Posted: Thursday, December 30, 2010 2:58 PM Quote

no wait. from were did you get the 800W heaters?

it is not worked out that way!!. so if your aquarium will be let say 600 litres, then roughly you will need a total of roughly 2.9 to 4.8KW per day (1.6 to 2.6KW per day if you insulate the back, sides, top and bottom with 5cm of jablo) so to get that amount of elecricity from photovoltaic panels in malta, a total of 240W of panel will give you not more than an annual average of 1KW per day. if you fix the panels on a solar tracking device, you can then decrease that to 170W of panels to get 1KW per day average annualy.

now to use a solar water heater, then it goes something like this:

every 1 square metre of normal panels (not the syphon tube system) will give a maximum total of 600-700W of heat every hour for a maximum of 6-8 hours in peak of SUMMER. in winter (when you actually need heating) you can expect a best of days to give you 400-500W of heat per hour for not more than 5-7 hours, and an average for peak of winter will not be more than 300W per hour for a period roughly not more than 4 FULL hours.... so this will mean that you will need to have a slightly big panel to make sure that in winter you are covered with heating.

also to remember that there is a lot of plumbing and moving parts involved which WILL go wrong some day... may be an easy task or a tidal flood of water.

with photovoltaic you need to apply with enemalta for a 2 way electricity meter and sell the electricity to enemalta as it is not worthed to use a battery and inverter. the cost to purchase and maintain these things will be much higher... plus you can get a rebate if you go with a grid-tied system.

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Posted: Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:20 PM Quote

800 watt total heaters :) 2 400watt i ment not a total day consumption.

I already have a vacum tube solat heater so i can use it as a test but to be honest i just dont want to use the same one maybe ending up not having hot water for washing!

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Posted: Sunday, January 02, 2011 9:43 AM Quote

i think that yoiu will not have enough hot water except from the period of april to october (when you barely need heating for aquarium)

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Posted: Sunday, October 16, 2011 2:07 PM Quote

hi, anyone knows from where i can buy an RO pump for a 50gpd locally .

thanks.

 

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Posted: Sunday, October 16, 2011 7:56 PM Quote

you can try at the kitchen court in B'kara psaila street

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