With solar collection efficiencies as high as 93%, these direct heated vacuum tube solar collector with distinctive horizontal mounting layout to maximize seasonal efficiency, offer the highest solar harvesting  performance rating on the market, as tested by SPF in Switzerland. 

Direct heated vacuum tube solar heating systems are suitable for residential and housing projects, commercial applications such as offices, sports facilities, hotels, hospitals and research establishments, as well as industrial facilities such as laundry's, washing plants and food processing factories to meet more demanding process needs.

The ‘all-glass’ vacuum tubes have no glass-to-metal seals, so there is no risk of a tube losing its vacuum.

Infinitely  scalable, systems can be sized to meet your budget or carbon reduction requirement and are a reliable and cost-effective investment for any home or organisation. 

'Heat-pipe' vacuum tube collectors offer very good performance and good all-year round solar collection efficiencies in the 75-85% range.

The heat pipe collection method requires the tubes to be mounted vertically rather than horizontally and are suited for domestic and commercial hot water applications providing free hot water for at least 25-years !  

Systems are sold as complete kits, including all the parts and accessories needed to integrate seamlessly into your existing hot water system, or to form part of a new installation.

A domestic solar hot water system usually takes a day to fit, requires no scheduled maintenance and no user input once installed and will save money from day one, helping you to protect the environment in the process.

The Solar Tracker has been specifically designed to offer UK and Northern European households a highly efficient, cost effective and environmentally friendly way to heat large volumes of DHW throughout the year where surface area to demand ratios are too low for a fixed collector system.

Energy gain from collectors that track the sun are approx. double that of a fixed collector array of the same area. 

This means that for large commercial operations with high volume DHW loads such as hotels, hospitals and pool heating, or for projects where space is at a premium such as care homes or blocks of flats, a smaller, cheaper system can be installed to generate the required heat energy.

 If you have a larger pool or require the water at a higher temperature then the modular system can be scaled up to meet your needs.

For a lower cost solar collector solution consider flat plate collectors.

Unlike vacuum tube collectors, they are sensitive to ambient temperature conditions and whilst on hot summer days they can equal the performance of  Vacuum Tube collectors in winter, when ambient temperatures fall they can be less effective, thus overall solar collection and system performance will be lower than for vacuum tube systems.

Flat-plate collection systems are ideal for outdoor swimming pool heating applications where summer performance is the prime consideration.  

Solar conversion efficiencies are in the region of 60-75% hence a larger collection area is generally required with flat plate collector systems.

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