Best angle to catch sun light - off topic

1999-01-18 Thread Chris Lusby
This is getting rather off-topic perhaps, but I should like to comment on what Ross McCluney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >One thing I forgot to say is that when you have one collector facing > East toward the morning sun, if > the panels are placed in series, the heat collected by the East panel

Best angle to catch sun light - off topic

1999-01-15 Thread Fernando Cabral
Hello I am affraid this is off-topic but still related to the sun and to the shadows. Solar power is not much used in Brazil but Brasília, where I live, is an exception. Here I have never seen or heard of a single house that does not have solar panels for water heating. We can have hot water (a

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1999-01-15 Thread Ross McCluney
Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Best angle to catch sun light - off topic References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fernando Cabral wrote: > One thing I have noticed

Re: Best angle to catch sun light - off topic

1999-01-15 Thread Arthur Carlson
Fernando Cabral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I am planning to build a house for a small farm I have. I've > been thinking on how to take the best advantage of the solar > power. This includes where to have a garder with a nice sundial and > where to place the solar panels for water heating a

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1999-01-15 Thread Fernando Cabral
the > plumbing and wiring are being done. This collector failed the dry, > "stagnation," test when the plastic inside melted, ran through some > cracks in the case, and pooled on the ground below. > > Ross McCluney, Cocoa, FL > >