Solar hot water, it is a working! - 2012

2011 - Marina Cortez San Diego, CA

It is February 22-2012 still in the deep of winter. 
 The Sun had been shining all day and the refer is running off shore power. There is not much if anything running off the batteries. That means the batteries are on float and fully charged. That means the dump load (water heater) is getting its full amount of AMPs.


  Still if the refer were to be running off the batteries and we were using a water maker off the batteries (inverter) and instruments were running we still would have this kind of hot water. Plus we will not run a water maker every day.

We have 485 watts of solar power in four panels.

Our BlueSky Energy inc Solar Boost 3024iL DUO actually amplifies these AMPs

In Mexico the sun will be even hotter. The sun will be out even more.

 So we got home (to the boat) and I decided to do the left over dishes (shame on me for leaving them) and fired up the hot water. Man it is hot. Too hot to touch. As the time passes and the days turn longer we are seeing how great this system is.  

• At anchor we will not need to fire up the diesel engine for hot water!
• No need to start the Honda 2000 generator for hot water.
• No need to bring in say the sun shower to dump hot water into the sink.
• No need to heat it on the stove.
• No using any fuel or making any noise and the power making the water hot would just go to waste if it were not making the water hot. Got to love it.

Just turn on the tap and bingo, there is hot water!!