Quick Setup and Operating Guide for SR868C8 Solar Controller

Solar Controllers from Go Solar

After extensive testing we now normally use the SR868C8 controller  in most of our domestic solar hot water systems.   As well as controlling the solar circulation pump,it  enables total control over electrical backup heating depending on solar conditions.  We set the controllers to the timer settings required by ESKOM on their rebate program [...]

A Solar Water Heating Disaster Story

We were asked the other day by SESSA (Sustainable Energy Society of South Africa) to go and investigate an installation by a fairly well known company,near to our offices.  We were met there by someone doing a feature for M Net’s Carte Blanche (for more on their reason for the story see [...]

Evacuated Tube Technology

Evacuted Tubes

At the heart of the Hills Solar water heaters from Go Solar are the evacuated tube collectors.  Evacuated tubes are a newer technology to the older flat plate collectors and are extremely efficient at capturing and retaining the energy from solar radiation.  So much so that they are even used to provide hot [...]

Solar Water Heater Installation and Sales Training Day

With solar water heating becoming such a standard part of plumbing installations in both domestic and commerial buildings,it is essential that plumbers and anyone involved in the construction industry be familiar with solar water installations.

We are again running our very popular Solar Water Heater Installation and [...]

Protect That Pump

Solar Water Heater Pump

Pumped or active solar water heating systems have many benefits of performance,safety and control.  The potential achilles heal of pumped systems is the pump itself.  Good quality pumps that can take the high temperatures involved with solar,are relatively expensive and need to be protected in order to ensure many years of [...]