In order to make use of the energy created by your collectors, there must be some way of storing the heat for later use. In most of the systems we supply, this is achieved by the use of a twin coil solar hot water cylinder. Below is a list of products we use on our installations.

Twin coil storage cylinders
Newark copper cylinders

Newark copper cylinders have been providing reliable copper cylinders for over 30 years. Their duel coil cylinders are one of the best on the market to date. The build quality is exceptional, and is supplied to part L building regs. The heating coil for the solar circuit is a massive 1.8m, giving every opportunity for the solar to heat the cylinder efficiently. Each solar cylinder is made to order, giving us the opportunity to add heating, water and solar coils to fit with your property.

We also have the ability at this time to add shower tapings or further heating coils if needed. Newark manufactures low pressure, pressurised -unvented and thermal stores for solar circuits.

The cylinders are available in the most common sizes and are also made to non-standard sizes if needed. The cylinder is an essential part of the solar circuit.

Solar controller and pipe work
Once the collectors and cylinder have been fitted, the next stage is to fit the control gear. All the control equipment is supplied by Secon solar. This U.K Company is the sole distributer of solar products from the German company Resol.
Resol have many years of experience producing solar supplies and the quality is as expected of a German made product. The fully insulated pump stations we use, ensure very low running noise and low heat loss.

The control gear consists of a solar temperature controller, pumping station and pipe work.

There are two ways we can fit the pump station
1. We can fit the pump station with the solar controller built in, as 1st picture. But is subject to the amount of space available.
2. We can fit the pump station in the loft and run the wiring down for the controller.
The white vessel you can see in the 2nd picture is the expansion vessel.
We would normally try and fit the solar controller somewhere accessible, the airing cupboard is the best place.

We use a purpose built stainless steel flexible solar rated pipe work. The pipe work is pre- insulated with high temperature insulation, and down the centre is a high temperature sensor cable. The sensor cable runs down from the collectors to the solar controller and measures the temperature at the collector.

The pipe work is connected together with brass flat seal washer connectors; this eliminates the safety risk of hot works in loft spaces.