Interesting Combo Product

ZoNiE
ZoNiE Solar Expert Posts: 100 ✭✭
in Solar Product Reviews & Opinions #1
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

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  • Dave Angelini
    Dave Angelini Solar Expert Posts: 6,974 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    #2
    Thanks ! Nice. Much nicer if it was in a yard on a pergola instead of holes in the roof of a house.
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  • SolarPowered
    SolarPowered Solar Expert Posts: 626 ✭✭✭
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    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.
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  • tupule
    tupule Banned Posts: 2
    #4
    So you don't have any in return profit ?
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  • SolarPowered
    SolarPowered Solar Expert Posts: 626 ✭✭✭
    #5
    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.

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  • MarkC
    MarkC Solar Expert Posts: 212 ✭✭✭
    #6
    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??
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  • BB.
    BB. Super Moderators, Administrators Posts: 33,685 admin
    #7
    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
    Near San Francisco California: 3.5kWatt Grid Tied Solar power system+small backup genset
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