DIY Solar Water Heater - Build A Solar Pool Heater From Polycarbonate Sheet 

How is this literally the ONLY video that demonstrates this method?? It's far neater, easier and quicker.

Сергею Юрко Респект в его работе и задаче. Молодец!

Must say ,,, One of the best ideas seen till now....

I did something a little more low-tech when I was 16 with a garden hose and a corrugated steel panel. I feel so affirmed! It took a few years, but I'll take it as a win!

One of the vest DIY solar panel videos I've seen maximum use of surface area and showing temps and weather 👍

wreszcie sesowne rozwiazanie porblemu zimnej wody w basenie , Dzieki!!!!

Great movie. I saw this movie a year ago. And i tought i give it a try. I have a 5x3 roof of these plates covering my pool. I connected al 5 panels. I did not painted the plates black. But at sunny day outside temp 21C. Water comming out 35/45C its crazy. Thanks 👍

YOU ARE GENIUS, BEST OF THE BEST. Easy neet and functional. Looks industrial too.

Love the innovation by using this material. Will try this. Thank you!

great stuff, just spent a lot more than i intended making one with wood, hose line and this stuff, could have done it for a third of the price if only i had seen this 4 months ago :-P, and it would be a fraction of the weight too . . . . top marks :-D

Brilliant. I wish I had seen this video before I made my setup. I just ran about 800 feet of 1/2" black piping, 200ft in the typical youtube wood frame coil, 300 feet back and forth on a south facing fence, and the last 300 feet coiled over the exhaust fan of my AC. I get a consistent output of about 40-44 degrees C on 30 degree days and 35 on a regular day. Currently my pump is only moving about 180 liters of water per hour from a 10,000 liter pool. I love how clean this looks and don't mind higher volume of water with a lower temp of 30 degrees C as 30 degree water is plenty warm.

Доброго дня!! Потрясающая идея, и чёткая реализация!!! Спасибо огромное Вам!

a great job. Thank you very much

Imagine using a flexible policarbonate sheet as an arked sunroof over your pool...... genius using this type of sheet.

Нормальный проточный нагреватель)

Genius idea! Thank you

By far one of the best solutions compared to the usual spiral hosing

Prima Sache ! Bin über meine Suche nach einer guten Kombi mit Winter-Heizung für ein Hochbeet und Direktheizfläche für ein Sommer-Wasserbecken nebst Halb-Beschattung eines Innenhofes auf das Video gesurft. Eine solche Polycarbonat-Sandwichplatte (mit aktiver Isolierung) wäre, so denke ich die beste Kombi. Ich habe schon das schöne grünliche Licht im Patio vor Augen, wenn es im inneren der Platte eine Grünalgenablagerung ansiedeln könnte...

Super video, som hrdy na nas Slovakov, planujem prestavit pristresok na terasu, tento napad pouzijem na strechu, super napad. Pozdravujem z Nemecka. :D

Works well, you can feel the warmer water coming back into the pool after running through the mat. Wish the inlet/outlet ports were adjustable, but overall, a good and efficient way to raise the water temp.

Najlepszy pomysł widziałem na yt

fantastico é o melhor o mais tecnico e perfeito e vi varios PERFECT .... WR BRASIL

Great idea! I think I will try this but make the frame float on top of the pool so not only it would heat the pool (pump being run by solar panel outside pool) but it will function also as a pool blanket.

geniale Idee! genau so einen schlaue jedoch einfache Ingenieurleistung hab ich gesucht! Vielen Dank

Some new idea, great !

To będzie ciekło !

Super idea! 👍🤓

Very cleaver & clean job

Cool idea

ide yang menarik...

Nice !

This is the best DIY designs I have ever seen ! ! Curious why you used tinted PC sheet? it seems that clear would be a little better (not much but would help) . ALSO: It helps to reduce reflection if you lightly remove the shiny surface from the top side the same way you roughed the bottom surface for the paint. Shiny surfaces reflect a pretty high percentage of sunlight especially when the sun is hitting it at an angle (the more the angle the more reflective losses you get and past 45° you get very little energy.) Thank you so much for the video. NOTE: if anyone talks about shading their pool with these panels - they need to calculate in the loss of direct sunlight going into the pool water - therefore they would need to build many more panels than the number it takes to cover the pool - it's best to shade an area beside the pool . of course if the pool is built into a greenhouse type enclosure they will be preventing evaporative losses so they could benefit from panels on the roof of that. AGAIN : Best system I have seen because this system utilizes every square inch and does not rely on conductivity of copper or any pipe before heating water ! ! ! AWESOME THANK YOU

Superb work!

Dobrý nápad 👍

Parece muy buena la idea. Hiciste el clentador con caños y ahora este con la placa de policarbonato. Cual es mejor??

The music sucks! love the idea!

Top marks for finding a simple hack to the hell of coiling tubes, and it looks great, but I'm a bit dubious about the long-term nature of the seals. how has it held up over the two years you've had it?

Exelente proyecto, felicitaciones. Estoy intentando hacer lo mismo, pero veo que standard, no vienen perfiles U o H de cierre en policarbonato. En tu proyecto veo que usaste una H de Aluminio. Podrias, pasarme las medidas de esa H? Que tipo de sellador estas utilizando? Gracias!

Dobrej napad!

Szuper ötlet :)

Great ingenuity !

No tak to je super! myslienka. Pozdravujeme Vrable z Australie. Vyskusame tu v Queenslande !

Te faltó el efecto invernadero para que suba mas la temperatura, muy buena idea gracias por subir el video saludos desde México

nice!

Genius!

I wonder how do you adequate the water flow of the panel with your pump output… It would make the perfect roof for my pump / filter area, not to mention I would be able to avoid hoses all over the place and the need for yet another external pump

Add foam panel to back side for better termo heat exchange and less loss.. If you build a box around it with 2x6 and add clear cover it will protect it and you will get higher exit temps due to more heat trapped inside box

Are inlet and drain fittings placed diagonally on the poly board, or Im missing something, ıf the heater placed on the roof apprx with a 5 m height then a small drain pump may be needed, very clean and good job,

Good idea

Great idea, Good Job. Did you test pressure resistance of the panels ?

I am doing it ! I will let you know ;-)

CHACO ARGENTINA ..MUY BUENO

What's the water flow rate for the approx 14C temperature gain shown?

Great idea and execution! Still working without a problems?

От Сергея Юрко. Товарищям привет.

I heat my pool with 10 x 1.4KW Solar thermal panels as 2 x 5 panels paralleled up.My temperatures off the panels are generally 60-80 C but easily go to 130 C if flow rates drop. This is pressurised to 3.5 bar so the Glycol/water mix remains liquid. This feeds a s/steel heat exchanger and gives a delta T of between 10 and 20 degrees on the feed and return of the panels. The pool water however has a gain of just 1-2 degrees Celsius but with a massive flow rate. The pool will gain about 8 c a day with good sun, topping out at 32 degrees c. Beware - Solar Panels can be very hot, when things go wrong and the panels boil, the water will go to 160 degrees Celsius !!!

Do you have an article or something describing some of the things you are doing and showing what exactly you’re doing in certain parts. You can’t really tell what is being cut out, for instance, or why. It would be nice to have more details and explanations by maybe giving a little blurb in the video during each part explaining what and why

My uncle has one of these they work very well

En verano el agua dentro del alveolar puede ser muy alta, saben hasta que temperatura soportará el policarbonato?

There goes my idea for busines....jbg.

Nice. Am I the only person that thinks that putting reflective aluminum foil insulation on the underside of this would raise the temperature even further?

pięknie

Smart ....

Been looking making a solar heater for my pool. Think this is my way forward thx

Where did you find the base?

Идея хороша. Но стоимость 16мм поликарбоната (учитывая, что не нашёл в продаже листов меньше 6-х метров) несколько удручает, по сравнению со стоимостью 20мм трубы ПНД для кольцевого коллектора. Хотя если есть обрезок - то оно самое то, Можно ещё и как навес для дровницы использовать. )))

Sehr gute Idee. 👍 Ich hab 150 m 20mm PVC Rohr genommen.

@Kukomio: curious, why did you use so much caulk?

What kind of a pump are using. Size of pump and hose?

super

OK so I wanna do this. So the white pipe is the outlet to the pool. Is the black pipe the feed from the water mains?

hola cuantos espirales necesitaria para una Piscina de 45000 litros (8x4 x1,4 metros) aproximado? Gracias

Music is a distraction, it would have been better to talk us through it and if you experienced any issues.

hello which black color has higher efficiency? glossy or matte?

Nie panel tylko kolektor - drobna różnica w nazwie, ale ma znaczenie

Add black color to water, so the heat will be trapped directly in water. Then with heat exchange (copper coil) heat whatever you want.

Кто тут зашел с канала Сергея Юрко )

is a 150x210 cm x 16mm polycarbonate sheet enough for an above ground pool with a size of 5.49x122 cm to heat the water to an average temperature of 28 degrees? and more or less how long can it take?

Спасибо брат Славянин!

Hi great job, but I have a question to ask the which pressure panel supports

Mit selber gebauten Parabol-Spiegel und Glas kommst du billiger und es heizt besser , schneller .

What was the brown stuff and what was the purpose? Looks like it has potential but would have liked some descriptions rather than background music.

Clean and clever! But wow, that polycarbonate sheet costs $180 USD alone at Home Depot! How long will this last before it starts to deteriorate and fail?

Looks amazing and so neat! What kind of pump are you using to take the water from the pool and thro the heat exchanger?

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What brand or type of caulking did you use? Have you had any problems with leaks?

great video. how long does it last at those temperatures? I find that my pool water cools the pipes down in the solar heater I made using black hose coiled on black wood... so the first 5 minutes are fantastic warm water. but then the pipes can not maintain the temperature under the sun alone. so my 33 degrees output quickly drops to 24/25 degrees which just doesn't heat up my 4000L pool enough. I've since made a wood burner

Could use a dado blade to cut the fins faster

Který z vašich absorberu má větší účinnost. Hadicový nebo z polykarbonátu? Díky

Polycarbonate is hygroscopic and will deteriorate quickly. Better to use UV inhibited vinyl or EPDM rubber.

Looks great! But how do you prevent algae deposits and how do you stop heating when the water is warm enough? If you continuously circulate the water via the filter pump (to purify the water), it will also heat up further and further.

I am actually curious, the idea is great but the sun breaks down this kind of plastic in about 4 years. Have you thought about adding a front layer of glas to protect it from the UV and therefore make it have a longer life span?

Kowalski, make something with that water.

Just seen this but cannot find any 16mm twin walled polycarbonate. All the 16mm seems to be multiwalled.

Great idea and very neat solution. I can't figure out how many channels he is cutting out and what order to make the 'snake' of water, any thoughts out there?

Frustratingly can't find twinwall 16mm polycarbonate sheets in the UK !!!

Excellent, but why not parallel for less pressure drop, less flow restriction, less friction...

Hallo, wieviel Rippen überschneiden sich auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite? Hello, how many ribs overlap on the opposite side

Great idea but based on that material I can see it getting destroyed by a good hail storm.

un material conductor de calor no plástico