Build your own basic GeoThermal closed loop earth recirculating system for under $800.00. This system has 300' of pressurized 3/4 inch polypropylene geoloop underground.
I am in an off grid house in TX now, for 8 years, built with my own two hands while living in a tent under a tree. Solar and rain water - no wind or geo yet. This was my first year to run an AC without a generator, now that my solar system is up to adequate size, but I need to add wind and geo ASAP. Wind should always be install WITH solar, and geothermal is a great way to reduce the size cost of solar and wind power installs due to the fact that the single most consumptive utility we depend on is now reduced to a small pump, radiator and fan. We become harvesters instead of producers. Love your videos friend. Geo and DIY go hand in hand.
After none of the local Plumbers would help me I watched your videos and copied yours! Well, I used Sharkbites, no haters please. It sure saves a lot of swearing, and sweating And when I had to make a couple changes I could pop off a junction and put a different one on. I buried 500 feet of 500 psi 3/4 inch polywhatever piping last fall. Dug a trench 5 feet deep and 5 feet wide and coiled the tubing and reburied it. I just got it running today!!! And Of Coors it took 3, maybe 4 trips to town and the Hardware store over the last week. I will try to post pictures but just wanted to say Thanks!! It is putting out 64 degrees and keeping the greenhouse on the 50 to 60 range. We did it for Cooling the hot Colorado afternoon sun. But getting to try it for those Mothers Day snow storms coming this week.
Nope no pictures. :( So if I added it all up I probably spent closer to $1500.00 using sharkbites, 3 speed pump, 'the best' heat exchanger, box fan, Temperature and Humidity activated power strip etc etc... . I am running it on water to make sure there are no bugs, no More bugs :) Then add some coolant to the system. I am Not a plumber and don't play one on TV but as a Handyman just got fed up trying to buy a system and thanks to your video made my own. Even my wife said she can't believe I attempted such a project and even more amazed it actually appears to be working .
Sounds good👍,I'm fixing to do this for my work shop too. Is their anything you'd do different with your set up or do you think it's pretty good the way you did it?
the only downsides with the design that I can tell after watching both parts is that 1) the loops come back up to within 24in of the surface, so they stand to pick up heat/cold on the round trip. For people with a 36in frost line, they will have to dig some deeper horizontal trenches. 2) that you are introducing a lot of leak points. The water drill for the wells works in loose/clay soil, but if you have large rocks, this may not be the best solution. In the end, I would say its a pretty good low budget solution that maintains pretty good performance. I'm sure it would work fine to keep a small garage or greenhouse temperature even. Im sure with a heat pump you can extract lots of energy from it and might even be able to heat a pool.
any chance of an update where you maybe use a thermometer measuring the water temp going out to the field and then coming back from the field? Also, maybe you could show ambient temp and then air temp coming out of the heat exchanger please?
Larry -- You'd probably get more views and more likes if you went through the system and explained each part better. What pump are you using, what bladder tank are you using, give a list of parts, that wort of thing. Also, since this is a "3 years later" video, you should explain WHY you had to add water and how efficient the system is.
Hey everybody, in the first video. It shows that he is making vertical wells down into the groundWATER. As long as that water is at least moving slowly there should be plenty of thermal exchange with no substantial heating of the ground to ambient temperature. I do agree that there should be a third video showing the performance of the system though, even if it failed, describing why he thought it works well or it failed.
Put thermometers on the supply and return and monitor over time. Maybe automate the on/off with a thermal switch to avoid running when there is no temperature differential.
this is so freakin great! in my country, im going to leave 100m black hdpe pipe on the low land and couple that an underfloor metric. ive working with thermal fluids like ppg for years and this is so such an interesting app... also need thermal cooling and that i need to do geo. this video has been a great help!
really cool design. Looking to put something similar together. Do you have any data on results (especially in cold weather) and more importantly a components list?
Have you run into any issues with condensation coming off of the radiator while it's operating? Planning out my own system, and I'm wondering if some sort of drip tray would be necessary. (I ask because I'm in Michigan, so we see a lot of humidity in the summer months).
I just finshed the first video and second video and I don't think there is enough surface area for a substantial transfer of heat. Not to be rude, but I'm assuming this is why you didn't post results with an IR gun or temp gage. Seems like you would need to tap into well water to make this really work or add pipe coils that go around the end of the vertical system. Although, I still don't think 15 ft would be far enough down with that little of surface area of pipe at that depth. Please let me know if I missed something, but that is my best guess.
basically you need 100' loop for every 100 sf. of space. He has 18x 30' wells, with 60' of pipe in them, connected together. That's 1000' of 3/4" hose.
I try it with well .... water in well get hot realy fast .... Now i'm think about 2 well and open water system betwen them with underpresure .... pump will run wather between well. Water level is 4m below ground .... and the cooler wil be on 6m high... it wil works ?? Greetings from Poland. Sorry for my english.
how much water you have in that well? I'm building something similar this summer but I have 80cm diameter well with 3m of 12C cold water, for a medium room should be fine. I hook up this close loop to inside unit from the conventional AC unit.
@@banny123456 i have 160mm pcv pipe as pre filter with lots 3mm hols... Indie is mine 110mm pcv as mine filter, water deep abaut 6m ... Heat exchger wos made from cooper pipe 1/2 inch ... 10m long in U shape.... After 2h work water temperatur on upper part well have almost 20'c
LMAO that will work for about 4 hours water temp dif X flow gpm x 485 is heat of extraction you made a 2000 btu geo a space heater would have been cheaper
would a horizontal loop field about 8-10 feet down be more efficient? These well type fields don't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me, since so much of the surface area is still near the surface.
@@trailingrails9953 I'm no expert but i would think a horizontal look would be a lot more work, you need to dig more stuff out and if it ever did get damaged it would be much more difficult to replace, i think horizontal would be better for heat exchange but the vertical one looks like it goes much deeper so i don't think it's that bad.
I am in an off grid house in TX now, for 8 years, built with my own two hands while living in a tent under a tree. Solar and rain water - no wind or geo yet. This was my first year to run an AC without a generator, now that my solar system is up to adequate size, but I need to add wind and geo ASAP. Wind should always be install WITH solar, and geothermal is a great way to reduce the size cost of solar and wind power installs due to the fact that the single most consumptive utility we depend on is now reduced to a small pump, radiator and fan. We become harvesters instead of producers. Love your videos friend. Geo and DIY go hand in hand.
After none of the local Plumbers would help me I watched your videos and copied yours! Well, I used Sharkbites, no haters please. It sure saves a lot of swearing, and sweating And when I had to make a couple changes I could pop off a junction and put a different one on. I buried 500 feet of 500 psi 3/4 inch polywhatever piping last fall. Dug a trench 5 feet deep and 5 feet wide and coiled the tubing and reburied it. I just got it running today!!! And Of Coors it took 3, maybe 4 trips to town and the Hardware store over the last week. I will try to post pictures but just wanted to say Thanks!! It is putting out 64 degrees and keeping the greenhouse on the 50 to 60 range. We did it for Cooling the hot Colorado afternoon sun. But getting to try it for those Mothers Day snow storms coming this week.
Nope no pictures. :( So if I added it all up I probably spent closer to $1500.00 using sharkbites, 3 speed pump, 'the best' heat exchanger, box fan, Temperature and Humidity activated power strip etc etc... . I am running it on water to make sure there are no bugs, no More bugs :) Then add some coolant to the system. I am Not a plumber and don't play one on TV but as a Handyman just got fed up trying to buy a system and thanks to your video made my own. Even my wife said she can't believe I attempted such a project and even more amazed it actually appears to be working .
Sounds good👍,I'm fixing to do this for my work shop too. Is their anything you'd do different with your set up or do you think it's pretty good the way you did it?
Shark bites are great even if they are a little expensive.
the only downsides with the design that I can tell after watching both parts is that 1) the loops come back up to within 24in of the surface, so they stand to pick up heat/cold on the round trip. For people with a 36in frost line, they will have to dig some deeper horizontal trenches. 2) that you are introducing a lot of leak points. The water drill for the wells works in loose/clay soil, but if you have large rocks, this may not be the best solution. In the end, I would say its a pretty good low budget solution that maintains pretty good performance. I'm sure it would work fine to keep a small garage or greenhouse temperature even. Im sure with a heat pump you can extract lots of energy from it and might even be able to heat a pool.
any chance of an update where you maybe use a thermometer measuring the water temp going out to the field and then coming back from the field? Also, maybe you could show ambient temp and then air temp coming out of the heat exchanger please?
Strange that hasn't happened in 3 years.
Larry -- You'd probably get more views and more likes if you went through the system and explained each part better. What pump are you using, what bladder tank are you using, give a list of parts, that wort of thing. Also, since this is a "3 years later" video, you should explain WHY you had to add water and how efficient the system is.
Hey everybody, in the first video. It shows that he is making vertical wells down into the groundWATER. As long as that water is at least moving slowly there should be plenty of thermal exchange with no substantial heating of the ground to ambient temperature.
I do agree that there should be a third video showing the performance of the system though, even if it failed, describing why he thought it works well or it failed.
Put thermometers on the supply and return and monitor over time. Maybe automate the on/off with a thermal switch to avoid running when there is no temperature differential.
Thank you so much! You really created a great system and it is all very logical.
this is so freakin great! in my country, im going to leave 100m black hdpe pipe on the low land and couple that an underfloor metric. ive working with thermal fluids like ppg for years and this is so such an interesting app... also need thermal cooling and that i need to do geo. this video has been a great help!
Great work and great video
really cool design. Looking to put something similar together. Do you have any data on results (especially in cold weather) and more importantly a components list?
Great work, can we also use it to cool the radiator?
no news for more than 1 year !! how is the project going full success or less please more news want to do the same thing
Have you run into any issues with condensation coming off of the radiator while it's operating? Planning out my own system, and I'm wondering if some sort of drip tray would be necessary. (I ask because I'm in Michigan, so we see a lot of humidity in the summer months).
I just finshed the first video and second video and I don't think there is enough surface area for a substantial transfer of heat. Not to be rude, but I'm assuming this is why you didn't post results with an IR gun or temp gage. Seems like you would need to tap into well water to make this really work or add pipe coils that go around the end of the vertical system. Although, I still don't think 15 ft would be far enough down with that little of surface area of pipe at that depth. Please let me know if I missed something, but that is my best guess.
One question, how you can be 100% sure no any air remaining in the tubes ?
Could the system be buried in your crawl space
This is an amazing series and I want to build something very similar. How did you size your loops?
basically you need 100' loop for every 100 sf. of space. He has 18x 30' wells, with 60' of pipe in them, connected together. That's 1000' of 3/4" hose.
Thank you!
Thanks, what's the ratio of PG to water?
Total capacity 9 gallons
Installed 4.5 gallons
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Ratio 50/50
@@larryshea8595 thanks.
Can’t hear you over the music.
how is it working after some time now?
I try it with well .... water in well get hot realy fast ....
Now i'm think about 2 well and open water system betwen them with underpresure .... pump will run wather between well.
Water level is 4m below ground .... and the cooler wil be on 6m high...
it wil works ??
Greetings from Poland.
Sorry for my english.
how much water you have in that well? I'm building something similar this summer but I have 80cm diameter well with 3m of 12C cold water, for a medium room should be fine. I hook up this close loop to inside unit from the conventional AC unit.
@@banny123456 i have 160mm pcv pipe as pre filter with lots 3mm hols... Indie is mine 110mm pcv as mine filter, water deep abaut 6m ... Heat exchger wos made from cooper pipe 1/2 inch ... 10m long in U shape.... After 2h work water temperatur on upper part well have almost 20'c
Geez show those flash frames down, your gonna give me a seizures. Cool project though, great idea and great work
What is the part number and name of the air bleader valve . I can’t find one.
BD E the one he’s using is a Watts AS. Watts also makes a micro bubble version in brass, model AS-MB.
If your power fails will your pipes freeze?
You must have missed that this entire video was about him filling the loop with antifreeze.
@@scotterdoos lol yes next time I will watch it all before commenting lol , nice job scot 👍
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He does not even heard of or can tell us its vertical or horizontal geothermal loop.
Just watched the 1st video, and he drilled 15ft down x10 to have 300ft total length.
LMAO that will work for about 4 hours water temp dif X flow gpm x 485 is heat of extraction you made a 2000 btu geo
a space heater would have been cheaper
Cheaper to run or cheaper to build?
What does that mean, can you be more specific?
@@jameshatcher9158 I think he means in 4 hours the system will heat or warm the ground to ambient temp.
would a horizontal loop field about 8-10 feet down be more efficient? These well type fields don't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me, since so much of the surface area is still near the surface.
@@trailingrails9953 I'm no expert but i would think a horizontal look would be a lot more work, you need to dig more stuff out and if it ever did get damaged it would be much more difficult to replace, i think horizontal would be better for heat exchange but the vertical one looks like it goes much deeper so i don't think it's that bad.