The Hot Water Cylinder for a Solar Water Heating System
Hot water cylinder for the Solar Water Heating System
These tanks are custom made in Scotland (Macdonald engineering) to our own requirements the standard tank is five hundred and fifty millimetres in diameter and just changes height to increase the volume to suit your property. Although if need be we can supply smaller diameter hot water cylinders if required.
The tanks are double insulated with fifty millimetres of insulation and all of the spouts have been raised to the surface of the insulation so that it is easy to install and so the you will not have to cut away any insulation (which will lead to heat losses) to get to the connections as you normally do on a standard tank.
We have also had the ports installed vertically in line with each other so that you can run your pipes down one side of the airing cupboard then push the new solar water heating cylinder to the back of the airing cupboard and then reconnect the pipes horizontally to the new hot water cylinder, which saves on space!
If you look at the bottom of the drawing you will see the extra coil for the solar water heating panel that will be connected via our own pumping station.
Extra coils or emersion heater ports can be added to suit the customer requirements. It is quite normal for two emersion heater ports to be included so that economy seven can be used with a booster emersion heater in areas where properties cannot be connected to the gas mains. Pressurised cylinders can also be supplied but they are more expensive due to the thicker copper wall and have to be quoted on an individual basis.