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| Notre Dame Electric, Manitoba, Canada |
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Largest Solar Space Heating project in Western Canada! 18 x TZ58 1800 30R collectors for heating 16,000 square foot shop with hydronic radiant floor heat in concrete. Large Air Handler is used to cool system in Summer. 80 degree angle for mount also reduces summer heating and maximizes winter heating. PAW commercial pump station with two RESol BS/plus controllers. Controllers control solar heating loop as well as over heat dissipation. 2nd controller controls integrated floor heating loop with large heat exchanger used to transfer energy to existing dual electric boilers. Estimates capacity 30 MW/year 103,000,000 BTU |
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| Herman Unrea, St Malo, MB |
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This solar heating project uses 4 x TZ58 1800 30R used to heat 1600 square foot concrete slab single story home with Electric Hydronic boiler, incorporates 80 gallon domestic hot water tank, and external dissipator for Summer use. Natural trees provide ideal shade for summer and allow full sun in Winter. |
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I saved 1000kw of power last month and I'll save even more now. the solar is pretty well heating the house. Since I install the TED energy detective.com, I have been able to tweak the floor temp and put more demand on the solar. I'm running the numbers (TEMP) you suggested and it cycles about every 15 minutes. It's a pretty sight watching the numbers rise that fast.
Please use me as a reference anytime you need to. Your service and engineering is top shelf.
Herman Unrea
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Franklin Electric
EstavanDescription, SK
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This solar heating project uses 17 x TZ58 1800 30R used to heat 2400square foot concrete slab work shop with Modine Over Head Water Heater. Incorporates 1 x 500 gallon storage tanks, and external dissipator . Vertical mount for optimizing heat in Winter and dissipating heat in Summer. |
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| Scott Lake Lodge, North West Territories, Canada |
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This solar heaitng project is the largest Resort Solar Installation in Canada! 19 x TZ58 1800 30R collectors provide domestic hot water for showers, laundry facilities, and kitchen for entire resort. Located at the 50 parallel in North West Territories just 2 hours below the tree line. This complete solar heating project is the largest of its kind in North America and is an testament to solar heating in Northern Climates. With the long summer sunlight makes solar an ideal resource for season heating. In the winter months the collectors are covered with custom covers. PV panels and solar DC-5 pumps provide the electricity for this truly off grid installation. |
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Given the extremely high cost of propane in our Northern Camp, solar heating made such sense. The 1st season of operation we used less than 1/2 of our normal propane usage which was a savings of over $50,000 USD. We estimate the entire installation to have paid for itself with in the 1st year. I would highly recommend Northern Lights Solar Solutions for any commercial design and installation. They came in on time and on budget which is what most businesses require. Most importantly the system delivered the savings we were looking for.
John Garrepy, General Manager
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Subterranean
Kenora, On, Canada
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6 x TZ58 1800 25R collectors provide Heat for 2600 square foot shop. Unique Installation uses large under ground storage basin, comprising of sand, rock and pex piping. This storage stores the heat energy produced in summer and utilizes it through out the winter. Dual solar storage tanks and dual PAW Flow Con pump stations with RESol controllers supply energy to the storage basin. Also installed are two RESol data loggers for remote web base monitoring of the system. Next phase is 26 collectors for complete solar home heating and solar air conditioning coming in Fall 2010. |
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| Jame Tates, NH, USA |
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This solar heaing project 4 x TZ58 1800 30R collectors and 1 x TZ58 1800 20R provide solar heat for 2300 square house in winter plus domestic hot water for family of 4 and also heats a large outdoor hot tub. Heat is stored in a 120 Gallon tank, and dissipated to 3 other heating zones as needed. 1.) hot tub, 2.) forced air furnace, 3.) garage shop heater. The shop heater also acts as a heat dissipator in the summer to ensure the system does not over heat. |
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We are so impressed with our solar heating system. After 3 years we have determined an annual average savings of 72% of our heating bills. This amounts to about $2200 year and a payback of under 5 years given the 30% federal tax credit. I would highly recommend Northern Lights Solar Solutions. Before I bought I researched a number of companies and found the most comfort in both their knowledge and the easy of installation of their system. Anyone thinking of installing solar needs to make these guys their 1st stop.
Sincerely;
Jame P Tates
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| Spencer Smith, MT, USA |
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4 x TZ58 1800 30R collectors for heating 2600 square foot ranch house in winter plus domestic hot water for family of 5 with additional summer tenant Heat is stored in a 120 Gallon tank, and dissipated to solar radiant floor heating loop as needed via a 2nd pump and heat exchanger. The vertical installation provides better winter heat and reduces heat in summer. |
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Dan, thought I would send you a reference letter on your DIY solar system that we installed last year. First let me say your instructions were very well layed out and made it very easy for a 1st timer to understand and follow. We had the system up and running in a weekend. My wife always wanted radiant floor heating so we ran PEX piping in our great room under the joist in the crawl space and it is a delight on those cold winter days. As for hot water, our supply is endless and we have never run out even with 3 teenagers showering 1st thing in the morning. I would recommend Northern Lights Solar Solutions to any of our friends.
Spencer Smith
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| Jerry Jones, Warren, MB Canada |
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3 x TZ58 1800 30R collectors for heating 1600 square foot house using a air to air heat exchanger in cold air return. Solar Evacuated Tube Collectors were optimally ground mounted with an under ground line to house for maximum performance. Cover are used in summer to cover 2 collectors leaving one collector for domestic hot water. Heat is stored in a 80 Gallon tank, and second pump pumps hot water to air/water exchanger located in cold return on furnace. |
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To whom it may concern,
Northern Lights Solar Solutions
I confirm that in October, 2009 I hired Northern Lights Solar Solutions for the installation of a residential solar hot water/home heating system. We had been conversing since March, 2009 regarding the potential install of this system, and during this time they had provided me with expert and thorough support to my many questions in the areas of site optimization and system configurations.
I can confidently recommend Northern Lights Solar Solutions as a solid and reliable supplier, installer, and experts in their field.
Yours faithfully,
Gerald Jones, CET
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| Larry Gabel, Hearst, ON Canada |
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This solar heating project use 3 x TZ58 1800 30R collectors for heating 1800 square foot house and hot tub, and 3 x Tz58 18000 30R collectors for heating with hydronic radiant floor heat in concrete. Summer covers are used in shop to reduce heat. 120 Gallon storage tank is used to for domestic hot water year round. |
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We researched many technologies looking to supplement are very high heating bills in Northern Ontario. Geo Thermal simply did not have the payback we were looking for so we decided to try solar heating using heat vacuum tubes for our cold winter months. We were so impressed we added it to both the shop and the house. We have had so much positive response that we approached Northern Lights Solar about the possibility of a dealership. Now we are marketing solar to local businesses with the ability to positively say that this technology is the only way to go!
Larry Gabel
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| Mike Stelling, Colorado, USA |
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3 x TZ58 1800 30R collectors for heating 2000 square foot house with hydronic radiant floor heat in concrete as well as 100% of domestic hot water. Summer covers are used in shop to reduce heat. 120 Gallon solar storage tank is used to for domestic hot water year round. |
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As a residential general contractor, I first started researching solar hot water and heating systems for an off-the-grid customer looking to convert their hot water and in floor heat to solar. Their goal was to pretty much eliminate their propane bill, which is exactly what we did. I was so impressed with the results of the Northern Lights Solar Solutions system I installed for them, that I was compelled to install a system for my own home.
My home, located at 10,000’ elevation, is in the central mountains of Colorado. We are south facing, backed up to the Continental Divide, in an area of very cold snowy and windy winters. To our advantage, Colorado has on average over 300 days of sunshine per year, making it an ideal location for solar energy gain.
The Northern Lights system I installed includes 90 evacuated tubes mounted on the ground, and a 120 gallon double heat exchanger solar hot water storage tank controlled by a FloCon C+ Solar Working Station, Willow Pump and DeltaSol BS Plus integrated controller. The system has been up and working for 2 months now, and has thus far supplied us with 100% of our hot water AND is heating approximately 25% of our home. Today, a typical day in December, our outside temperature was 16 degrees Fahrenheit and rose to 36 degrees. The sky was mostly sunny with a few clouds. We started out the day with the water in our tank at 123 degrees Fahrenheit. At the end of the day, that temperature is at 183.7 degrees Fahrenheit… a gain of 60.7 degrees! I have found that no matter how cold the temperature gets here, the evacuated tubes ALWAYS make heat. That is in direct contrast with the flat panel systems I have seen. We are very pleased!
Mike Stelling
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| Mike Stelling, CO USA |
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2 x TZ58 1800 30R and 2 x TZ59 1800 20R used to heat 2400 square foot concrete slab work shop with Modine Over Head Water Heater. Incorporates 2 x 120 gallon storage tanks, and external dissipator for Summer use. Solar Covers are used in summer months to turn off heating system. |
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We are writing this in reference to Mike Stelling's general contract work. We hired Mike to install a solar domestic hot water/radiant floor system. Mike researched the best options for our system, considering the size of our home, the space available to install the collectors and storage tanks, and our prior year's heating costs. One of his proposals was based on newer technology (Northern Lights Solar Evacuated Heating Systems) than the traditional flat plate solar collectors of the 70's. The Northern Lights Solar Heating System met our expectations of the amount of heating provided in the space that we had to install the system. So far the installation has performed very well, our domestic hot water needs and radiant floor heating needs have exceeded our expectations of the system. Our propane use for heating and hot water have been vastly reduced from last year.
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Sue, Bill and Tom
South Park, CO
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| Steve Kay, KA USA |
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4 x TZ58 1800 30R and 2 x TZ59 1800 20R used to heat domestic hot water and an pool/hot tub. |
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On sunny days in a Kansas winter ( -10 to 35 F) the system can heat 100 gallons of 60 degree F water to well over 100 degrees. In the spring I was able to raise the temperature of my 8' x 15' x 4' endless pool from it's 50 degree winter temperature to a comfortable 85 degrees in just 2 days via the pool heat exchanger. I purchased extra water to air exchangers as well as pumps and thermostats as I will be trying many combinations of utilizing the free hot water supply. I am also considering supplementing the hot water supply with a wood fired boiler on cloudy days. When and if it becomes remotely economical to convert sun to electric you can see by my pictures I have lots of south facing roof space as well as peaks for six foot Honeywell turbines.
STeve Kay, KA
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| Hearst, ON Canada |
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This solar heating design uses 5 x TZ58 1800 30R Intergrate with the Geothermal System a the Hurst Technology Center in Northern Canada. The solar acts as a preheat to increase the efficiency of the heat pump. |
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Video of system comming soon!
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