It's here, a solar pool heater created from all of your comments (Thank You), and it's a good one, well, as far as I know...
The UK summer stretched over a full 2 weeks it seemed, up to when I completed this panel.
But, despite this, the new version 2 solar pool heater did better than I expected, reaching an average of 500W in one day, that's 4kWh over an 8 hour period, plus hit a peak of 640W (measured using flow rate and input to output temperature).
Considering the size difference to last years version, version 2 performed slightly better. This was probably due to all the suggestions in version 1's comments.
It's quite interesting what the collective can achieve when focusing on developing something like this. I wonder what else we can achieve.
Items purchased: -
8mm x 25m copper coil - £50.40 each (3 of = £151.20 Total)
https://www.tradingdepot.co.uk/coil-of-copper-tube-with-minibore-8mm-x-25m
Fitting reducer with solder ring - £0.91 each (6 of = £5.46 Total)
https://www.tradingdepot.co.uk/search/?q=SRI102%2F15X8
Glass frame, thanks to a friend (cheers Mark).
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