Interesting Combo Product

ZoNiE · July 2015

I saw an interesting product at the intersolar show this year. The R-Volt, Basically a PV panel with an air box beneath to draw heat off the surface which cools the panel and helps heat the house in the winter... Cool Idea, I was thinking of something like this to feed the warmed air into the evaporator box on my roof mounted Packaged Heat pumps...
http://www.systovi.com

Dave Angelini · July 2015

Thanks ! Nice. Much nicer if it was in a yard on a pergola instead of holes in the roof of a house.

SolarPowered · July 2015

Yeah that design won't go far. Its been done before. The heating efficiency for the home is lacking......Significantly..... It will also draw in humidity without a dehumdifying filter system, during the winter. Its escalated costs, with no significant return, initial production costs are higher.

tupule · July 2015

So you don't have any in return profit ?

SolarPowered · July 2015

tupule wrote: »

So you don't have any in return profit ?

Basically.... It will eat up the 30% tax credit, so the 30% means nothing.

It drifts further away from grid parity rather than bringing it closer.

MarkC · July 2015

Has this concept been applied to water heating/solar panel cooling? Heating water will be much more effective as far as heat transfer, but maybe more difficult? Combine this with absorptive refrigeration - might be the "two birds with one stone" solution to true air conditioning??

BB. · July 2015

Sundrum, I think, is still around:

http://www.sundrumsolar.com/products--services.html

Here is a bit of discussion here:

http://forum.solar-electric.com/forum/solar-electric-power-wind-power-balance-of-system/general-solar-power-topics/3976-possible-hybrid-pv-hot-water-panel-product

You can find some other discussions by searching Google ("site:" tag limits searches to a specific website):

sundrum site:forum.solar-electric.com

-Bill

Interesting Combo Product

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