DIY pool solar water heater - How to build and does it work
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2020
- If you don't want to build one yourself, buy one.
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An easy to make DIY solar pool heater. Can be used for a in ground or above ground pool, like a built-in plunge or a Intex Swimming pool..
The heater we built does not use the existing pool pump installation.
We used a bilge pump for boats and garden hose.
In this video we show how to make a solar heater. We measure the temperature of the water in the hose, in degrees and in fahrenheit.
How long does a pool heater take to heat a pool?
That depends on the size of your pool. We have a plunge, with less litter or gallons of water than in a large pool.
What's the cheapest way to heat a pool?
That is probably with a DIY Solar Heating System or a Solar Cover (Check our channel for our Solar Cover Video).
But the cheapest way to warm up your pool is of course the sun. Totally free.
But!
Does a DIY Solar Pool Heating System really help to warm up your swimming pool?
Watch our video and you’ll find out.
We also show whether a self-built sunheater helps for your plunge.
Use a Pool Cover Solar Pool at night. Otherwise, the temperature of your pool water will cool down quickly.
There are many types of swimming pools, like an icf pool, intex pool, an aufbau, kanelo rocks olivares, Intex, Alberca, an inground or even a great banane ka tarika. For all there pools you can use your do-it-yourself solar pool heater.
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Your pool might be the smallest in the Nederlands, but it is the most famous in the world 😊
😂😂😂 Thx Santy!! Grtz Nicole
hellooo i'm from brazil and working on a similar project, you are awesome and have a beautiful family!! thank you for the video !!!
Bravo Nicole!! The pool is looking great,love the innovative ideas you keep coming up with.....
Thx!
De buurman had dit ook gedaan, maar was niet tevreden over, dus de volgende dag weer weggehaald, maar toch fijn om dit te laten zien voor de rest van de wereld! Bedankt voor de fijne video!
Proberen wij eigenlijk ook aan te tonen, William :-)( Bedankt!
No i fajnie. Moja przyszła żona nie zmarznie. ☺
I can’t stop watching. Such a great job. You are a super woman 🤝👍
Thank you so much 😀
Nice job! I did the same with a 16mm spiral and got 120l/hr have now upgraded to a bigger pump with and get 1000l/hr 5c increase using 32mm black pipe. Fully automatic on/off. Our pool was up to temperature 30c by the end of April. The smaller setup just wasnt cutting it on a 25m! Pool. You can see the setup on my channel. Loved watching you building the pool as well. Great job.
So, whats your URL?
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I also have an astrophotography channel if that is of any interest, th-cam.com/channels/lTipDJ_s18JNqRBtzBpBPw.html
Nicole is a very determined worker.
Like if you agree.
I like Vlad :-)
1 liter in 25 seconds heats up 12 degrees Celsius, which corresponds to 8.5 kW of bo power. Great job.
2kW.
m=1kg, c=4.2kJ/kgK, dt=12K.
m x c x dt = energy gained = 50.4kJ
50.4kJ in 25 secs = 2kJ/sec = 2kW
@@MrKal321 Yes, you are absolutely right. I apologize, I looked at the calculation on some website - Heating element power calculator for water heating. Didn't double-check ...
Nice design. Black PEX tubing would work even better and it's cheaper than garden hoses.
Very cool. Great job Nicole😃👍
Thx Tarzana!
SIEMPRE IMNOVANDO QUE BIEN FELICIDADES MICHAEL
Gracias Ernesto!
I think that in Tunisia it will be good to try the hose solution . Nice vid 😉
Yep. Thx!
Olá Carissima familia,fiz em minha residência este projeto.O reservatório foi um frizer ficou top,tem q ter uma torneira de água fria p equilibrar a água quente com a fria o frizer não desperdiça calor mante .... sucesso avcssss 👋❤
Great job, next solar heater use irrigation pipe, it is cheaper, stronger, easier to roll and pitch black
When there is an innovator
No end to creativity
:-) Thx!
👍very good your job l love it thank you
Thx!
Good job
Good job Mama smart lady
En dat alles in een Haarlems tuintje! Herken je gezicht vlgs mij. Net als bij ons thuis: Mam deed bijna alle klusjes.
Zo'n 25 km verderop... ;-)
@@MichaelBoerop Hoop dat je daar geniet van je mooie tuin. Echt heel leuk om te zien.
An easy way to realize how much it will help: consider the area of the solar absorber and compare it to the area of the pool. Now pretend you are adding extra sunlight area to the bigger area of the pool. A small sized-absorber won't add much heat to a large area pool. Yes the temperature of the undiluted, heated, water might be high, but the amount of that temperatured water is what counts (ie heat).
Wonderful
OMG, Nicole can just do anything......Superwoman.....
Hello,
great work! What would interest me is if you have problems with condensation water below the plexiglass? I have also built such a pool theater and am now considering whether or not to attach a plexiglass. I fear the formation of condensation water, which would then not be so great for the wood.
Hi Nicole, love the hard work you put in. How do you keep the pool clean, is it only chlorine? Greetings from Sweden.
You could also run the pump/heater combo with the pool blanket on for a while before swimming as well.
Yep. Thx!
I have had someone who is a pool expert tell me that a concrete block pool like yours rendered/screed with waterproofer will not keep watertight without having a tanking system and being tiled.totally confused really need help what makes your pool watertight so it wont leak without a tanking system .thankyou for your reply before what you did.can you explain to me why your pool does not leak .anyone else reading this comment would appreciare anyone elses opinion advice.I was thinking otherwise maybe i should go for plaster not sure
Fresnel magnifier can be used for heat the pool too. If you have a big magnifier, place a metal piece inside pool and then focus magnifier to the metal thus metal will be hot perhaps...
Bravon nicole
Hello my dear frnd and fam 💕
Just to let you know that I appreciate your blessed, hardworking hands “Strong Powerful woman”
You’re such an inspiration fam *VirtualHug*
Thx!!!!!
Hi Nicole I was wondering if your pool has a lid ? with a lid when the pool is not in use the kids can play soccer or volleyball over it ..I.e convertible pool .Just a thought ..!
Do you think this might work as a shower heater for camping?
Het zwembad bedekken met bubbeltjes plastic (glade kant boven) je zwembad is erg snel warm
Hoi Mark, dank je. Die hebben we!
Ik heb hier een zwembadje van (slechts) 7 m3 en heb die met zonnecollectoren (oppervlak ongeveer 4,5m2) verwarmd tot 36 graden Celsius bij een max. buitentemperatuur van 25 graden dus dat kan makkelijk. Alleen zorg voor vloerisolatie, als het kan ook wandisolatie(heb ik zelf niet) en isolatie van het oppervlak (noppenfolie). Dek vervolgens het zwembad af met zeil. Laat gedurende de dag het bad dicht en aan het eind van de middag is het water in mijn geval zo'n 10 graden warmer dan de buitentemperatuur. Let wel, het moet mooi zonnig zijn zoals afgelopen weken. Als het zonnetje weg is, bypass dan de zonnecollectoren om te voorkomen dat de warmte ontsnapt door de zonnecollectoren. Laat het water niet te snel stromen door de zonnecollectoren maar ook weer niet te langzaam want dan verlies je ook weer rendement. Ik probeer het zo in te stellen dat het water wat eruit stroomt ongeveer 5 graden warmer is dan het badwater. Op volle zonnige dagen stroomt er dus een redelijke hoeveelheid water door de zonnecollectoren en is het bad ook zo warm. Veel succes ermee!
Bedankt Marc!
hi. are you satisfied with this pool heating system you have made? would you recommend it?
Hiya, love the videos! Love the idea, wonder if it will catch on over here in the UK. You have done an amazing job... Hats off to you... Just thought did you think about using copper pipe instead of hose pipe? Also what about a solar panel to power your pump?
Thx! Yep, next step, solar to the pump. Grtz!
hello Mohawk. I have a similar solar water collector but building it all with copper would have made it cost the same as a commercial panel, which would be much more efficient. If I had the funds, I'd buy a commercial solar panel and pay a plumber to fit it for sure. they are VERY efficient and well worth it.
these solutions are for people with little income or plenty of time and spare materials. they are a low tech solution that includes more people in sustainable solutions. win win.
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when using a big drill like that, alway sdrill from both sides, that will prevent blowout.
Yep. Thx!
I love in Florida, our pool however is at an angle that when 2pm hits there is a shadow in the pool. This means that by 4pm the pool is cool and in the darkness. I like the idea but for it to work on our pool we would have to scale it up by a factor of 5 to see any difference.
Yep, I understand. That's what I tried to tell in the video. Grtz from Amsterdam
Perhaps you should add a snap temperature thermostat to the inside of the thermal box, So it will only come on when it hits a certain temperature, and shut off when it's too cool. Additionally I'd have the water come out at the bottom of the pool. I've done a lot of thermal box experiments and they all work, but aren't a solo solution.
U have good content
:-) Thx!
@@MichaelBoerop u can give me a shout out please
Suggest to use black poly irrigation tube. More efficient and cheaper.
The biggest issue with the solar heater is that the temperature of the sun is not optimal transferred to the water in the hose, if you would replace the hose with some metal piping, like copper or aluminum, the heat is better transferred.
Second thing you could do is use a black cover for the pool when not used to get more heat from the sun in the water.
Ik was ook zo gek om me met zo een dingen bezig te houden.. En dan werd het zomer (belgie) en dikwijls bewolkt en was er geen warmte meer.. dan heb ik houtgestookt genomen. Dit werkte extreem goed qua rendement het beste dat ik ooit had, maar werd ook een last voor telkens in gang te zetten en voor de buren qua geur en rook. (geen klachten gehad, maar vond het zelf een beetje lastig en zou dit ook niet fijn vinden als een ander het doet.. nu een warmtepomp genomen zwaarder dan nodig en laat ons zeggen 12 uur pompen verwarmt ie het badn van 18.000 liter van 20 tot 29 graden.. geen zever en rommel meer in men tuin
Love watching your projects ,,I just started building my pool like yours ..could you please tell the dimensions of your pool
Thank you! Our pool is 370 x 165 x 100 in centimeters. Only small 😊.
Man man man waar moet ik teken dat zei me vrouw word.. wat een heldin
:-) Thx!
#lekker zuinig, manueel zagen. (top video though)
:-)
I suspect a good solar blanket would help keep the water warmer considering more heat is loss at night without the solar blanket covering the pool.
crown stones, make that the cat wise 🤣, die dingen heten terminal blocks 😉
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Nichole you are wonder women xx
Waarom heb je niet van die zwarte irrigatieslang gebruikt ipv tuinslang?
The only question that matters is how much ,if any, was the pool temp increased?
Om een zwembad met meerdere kuub echt te verwarmen in een land als Nederland of waar ik woon Belgie ,is bijna nihil.De temperatuur die gemeten wordt aan de uitgang van de slang is wel warm maar om een zwembad te verwarmen???Ik heb zelf een zembad van 22 kuub en je kan beter zorgen voor een goede afdekking ja. Ik heb twee wanddoorvoeren gemaakt en twee skimmers voor een goede ciculatie van het water.Goede afdekking is erg belangrijk zoals jezelf zegt!!!!Goed gespaard ook voor zonnepanelen en een warmtepomp en deze doet het werk schitterend.
Thx Lothaire!
Onzin. Als de zon schijnt is het gewoon te doen alleen niet hoe dit paneel gebouwd is. Ik heb dit soort panelen ook gemaakt voor vrienden met een zwembad. 1 paneel met volle zon erop kwam er 60 gr warmer uit. Daar verwarmen 8 panelen een bad van 72m3. In het hoogseizoen draaien er maar 4 panelen want het water komt er kokend uit anders.
Will work for a 3500Lpond
Where did you buy your inverter? What kind is it?
I have an idea using old incandescent flood lights as a form of evacuated tube solar collectors.
You can get better output if u can seal panel airtight and use vaccume pump to suck all air out of panel.
Please share output after doing that
We'll do next summer!
How do you keep your pool clean and clear? mine gets nasty and green in about a month and i keep chlorine and a filter in it
Check my channel. I have a video about a system.
Use a mirror/mirrors to reflect more sunlight at the solar heater, maybe?
How could you do this on a miniature scale to keep a bird bath from freezing in winter?
what if u paint your pool with black paint? i build 1 with 25 meter, its get very hot for short period of time, but after that just luke warm water T_T
Can you explain step by step the process to make it? Plase make another step by step explanation. 🙏🙏🙏
hi
why didn't you use copper tubes instead of hoses
I think you might do better just making a black cover for the pool. So all the time that you are not using it it is heating up.
From what I've learned about solar heating a pool, it's always best to heat a lot of water a little, rather than heat a little water a lot. I ran a Y off my pool pumps return to my solar "system". It's still a work in progress...living in Wisconsin doesn't help.
Same here; Amsterdam is not exactly mediterranean.. We have decided to invest in a small inverter heat pump this summer. We already have solar panels on our roof, so in a way it will still be a sort of solar system 😉. Hopefully with better result!
This could have been made easier with a trip to a collision shop and got a broken radiator that has better thermal transfer and use the bilge pump you bought to circulate it.
Thx John!
Dont give up. Get a garden irrigation hose and for efficient heat transfer do not pick the thinnest nor the thickest type, then also get one tube of silicone, one way mirror foil fitting the plexi-glass dimension, glue spray, some aluminum foil roll long enough to cover the inner bottom and sides of the heater, and a cheap cartridge filter for those easy set above ground pools so you can hook the heatersystem up to your actual skimmer skipping all that ugly mess with the garden hose all over the place -might need T splitters and bypass valves mod to existing filter in order to prime the cheapo filter pump.
Take the old hose out, silicone all the corners of the wooden frame and spray the wood with glue spray prior to application of aluminum foil shiny side up, matte to face wood on the bottom and sides.
Cover plexiglass with adhesive mirror foil the way it'll be mirroring the hose inside and leave outer section that touches the frame free of the foil as it will be glued.
Place the hose many DIYers use in with 5mm spacing between each new spool, make a simple comb-like brace for it if not feeling like re-drilling and re-knitting it all over again. Finally, considering the hose is free of defects, holes, kinks reducing water flow, run the silicone line over entire frame and place plexiglass over it to bond together. Ensure all the holes on the bottom and hose in/out-lets are also siliconed up to create 100% air seal chamber that will now serve as infinite mirror sun-light bounce-back heat trap chamber. Honestly, even 2 degree improvement with much stronger pump and water flow would be humongous success, but to really warm up your pool, you should follow this recipe with about 2x or even 4x the spool diameter you guys have made so far. Or re-create another piece which could be interlocked together and taken apart for easier winter storage. Less surface area of those heaters in windy conditions puts less stress and less chance of it flying away with the wind which is also a consideration to be kept in mind since these should rest on a risen stand or preferably roof.
geen ruimte op t (plat) dak ? :-) en als je de slangen parallel aansluit is de flow door de slangen wat fijner voor de pomp ;) en waarschijnlijk stroomt het dan ook iets langzamer door de slangen waardoor het meer tijd heeft om temperatuur op te nemen :-)
Dak ligt vol met zonnepanelen :-)
@@MichaelBoerop ahja dan wordt dat lastig.. Al kan je natuurlijk het overschot wel door een warmtepomp gooien om zo bij te warmen.. (al is dat pas echt aantrekkelijk als de saldering stopt)
How about a black foil that lies on the pool floor to heat the water? I think that would be less of a hassle. best regards
Yas, maybe, but black doesn't make really make the pool very attractive I guess.. We will try a small heat pump this summer.
Not tropical? Remember 42 degrees last summer? Haha! Groetjes!
🤣🤣🤣Over een paar jaar zijn we Caribisch. Groejes!
12hrs later, Bob's your uncle, water's now 1 degree warmer 😉
😂
Je kunt beter een oude gasfles omtoveren tot tuinkachel en daar RVS-buis in een spiraal omheen buigen. Met de pomp die jij nu gebruikt (120 liter per uur) verwarm je diezelfde 120 liter gemakkelijk tot 70/80 graden. Alternatief: het idee van het platte dak is al genoemd in de comments. Koperen of RVS-buizen op een plat dak leggen, net zoals je met vloerverwarming zou doen, en hier het water doorheen pompen. Hoe langer de buis en hoe langzamer de pomp, hoe meer warmte. Bedankt iig voor het experiment! :-)
Bedankt voor de tips Tony!
hallo : vielleicht solltet ihr die Schläuche auf euer Dach verlegen (Terassendach) lg Gruesse
Hi!! what about the winter? it works?
No, I guess not; the water gets too cold. I think we should try a heat pump but that will be next summer!
Use a sump pump for more flow, otherwise great idea
More flow = less heat?
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please get copper pipe (solar heater), has more tranfer heat.
In Nederland is de enige echt goede manier om je zwembad te verwarmen een zwembadwarmtepomp. Elektrisch kan ook, maar dat kost de hoofdprijs aan energie. Ook kan je een warmtewisselaar in een oud olievat maken en daar vuur in stoken, dat werkt heel goed, maar minder goed te controleren om maar te zwijgen van de rook voor jezelf en je buren.
Klopt. We hebben een kleine tuin. Buren zullen niet blij zijn met de herrie van de warmtepomp.
@@MichaelBoerop ikzelf heb een full- inverter warmtepomp, duurder in aanschaf, maar veel goedkoper in gebruik en weinig geluid op de lagere standen. Ik kan het jullie zeker aanraden.
Hi
Die panelen werken wel alleen moet je ze met andere materialen maken. Voor grote zwembaden werken ze ook alleen dan maken ze vaak 8 of meer van die bakken.
Klopt, uiteindelijk werkt het, maar dan hebben we geen tuin meer over. Op het dak liggen al zonnepanelen.
60gr stijging van 1 paneel is mogelijk met meer flow zelfs als nu. Moet je alleen wel met koper werken en de bak isoleren.
You should better use a black hose made of thin material rather then a rubber hose. Rubber is a good insulator. Or you buy a cheap solar pool heater with a larger surface made of thin plastic. The color is crucial for adsorbing light as heat. The pool will reflect most of the light unless you paint it black.
hi, personally i don't use a garden hose. In strong heat if the pump does not run, the garden hose can melt. It's better to use black PHD (High Density Polyethylene) tubing. The water will heat up faster. Tilting the panel from 45 to 50° will help to better capture the sun's rays. Otherwise great video 🙂 (sorry for my Bad english lol)
why didn't you do it right after the pump before the return pipe?
We needed a T split for that, which we currently do not have. But we will try a heat pump this summer, so we need one. But no use for the sun heater then anymore!
а черной краской дно покрыть не приходило в голову? Всегда теплая вода и без каких-то потерь и приспособлений
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You should turn you skills into a job. Your seriously super women 💪
:-) Thx Lily!
It probably needs to be raised off the ground, otherwise the ground will act like a heatsink.
counter intuitively running water faster (up to a point) through the house will yield more thermal energy into the pool. it wont be as hot at the end but the will move more energy into the pool .
That's the most common mistake people make.
i am no expert but i would say you need 4mm irrigation pipe about 30m or so that will give you a much higher temprature..
stormcup That would be counterproductive. You actually want the water to flow quickly. Hot water picks up less heat from the collector. You need the cool pool water to keep moving through, keeping the difference in temperature between the air inside the panel and the water in the tube as big as possible- heat moves faster when there is a bigger temperature differential. Although the water going back to the pool will not be as hot, there will be much more of it, and overall it will contain more heat energy.
@@spencerwilton5831 I recently gave it a go, it worked. th-cam.com/video/QTSmIXIFnHs/w-d-xo.html
Wonderwomen
We agree
:-) Thx Omer!
Had je niet beter toen je het zwembad weer ging vullen meteen die slang waar nu de waterpomp aan zit gewoon aan de kraan vastmaken en dan vult het hele zwembad zich met warm water inplaats van dat je nu een klein beetje warm water bij een grote hoeveelheid koud water doet dan duurt het nog wel heel lang zo hahah
Yes, is een optie :-)
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That is very informative...
Why not just swim in a wetsuit? That's what we do... it is great training for wetsuit legal events.
🤣 Thx for the tip!
She watches to much of Mc Guyver 😂😂😂😂🤣
So you have ¼ square meter of heat gathering surface and 48 square meter of heat loss surface. Good luck.
Would work thou if the water coming out is like 200 degrees celc. 😅😅
Crown stones are called connectors😂
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Hier is een heel topic over op Tweakers, hebben jullie dat al eens bekeken? gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1994192
Nee 😂 Thx voor de tip!
Please move that powersupply further away. My hair is rising at the thought of mainspower so close to the water
True! It was only to try, we would definitely not swim...
5:19 The Netherlands isn't tropical? Don't tell Aruba or Curacao!
:-) True