Looking for a good supplier for a solar pool heater array before winter

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Does anyone have a good supplier in southern California for a solar pool heater? I am also looking into a home solar system in the next year or so.. research, research!

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Re: Looking for a good supplier for a solar pool heater array before winter

bkobus wrote: »

Does anyone have a good supplier in southern California for a solar pool heater? I am also looking into a home solar system in the next year or so.. research, research!

Dunno. But I've noticed some pretty decent looking used solar water heating panels for sale used on Craig's list. I use an RSS aggregator (right now I'm using JetBrains Omea Reader 2.2 http://www.jetbrains.com/omea_reader/ ) and, among other things, I also have it setup to run queries on CL- one of which is:

-http://losangeles.craigslist.org/search/?areaID=7&subAreaID=&query=solar&catAbbreviation=sss&format=rss-

(Remove the fore and aft hypens - I added them to break the vBulletin auto-linkinator in order to show the full syntax of the query.)

If you chop off the "&format=rss", then the URL works normally in a browser, I'll do it here and allow vBulletin to make it a link:

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/search/?areaID=7&subAreaID=&query=solar&catAbbreviation=sss

That searches the entire "Craig's List/Los Angeles/For Sale" section for the word "solar".

I have similar searches setup in my aggregator for "inverter", "generator" and "ryobi" (I have 18v Ryobi tools, but I'm looking for a couple more items).

There are also several local "solar" contractors advertising on CL. Apparently there is a store a few minutes from me...maybe one of these days I'll pass by and take a look at them. (Though, if the prices aren't enormously lower, I'll buy from NAWS anyway - I want this forum to continue and NAWS pays for it.)

Naturally, there are also plenty of scammers - YMMV.