Retrofit a Solar Water Heater to Your Existing Electrical Geyser

Retrofit solar water heater

Many of our clients have perfectly good,normal high pressure geysers in their homes and are naturally loathe to remove it and replace it with a solar geyser.  We have installed many SABS approved retrofit solar water heater systems to existing standard geysers with very good results.  There are however,some important factors to keep [...]

ESKOM Solar Water Heating Workshop

2 x 30 evacuated tube Hills Solar solar collectors in series

Eskom recently held a workshop for stakeholders in the solar water heater industry.  They looked at issues such as electricity savings per rand spent on the initiative,quality of systems and installations of those systems,local manufacturing incentives,status of the rebate claims process and future funding for the program.  One of the [...]

Pumps For Solar Water Heaters

Grundfos UP15-14B Pump Small

The circulation pump is the potential weak point in a pumped (active) solar system.  If the system is running normally,the pump is protected by the solar controller,but if there is a failure such as an electrical outage,or the mains water supply to the system is interrupted,the pump can be [...]