FAFCO Solar Pool Heating
Get the most out of your swimming pool. A FAFCO solar pool heating system dramatically extends your swimming season, enabling healthy enjoyment and exercise in luxurious warm water from spring to fall.
First-time pool owners are frequently surprised by how much traditional fossil-fuel burning heaters cost to run. Because of this, many choose not to heat their pool at all, limiting its use to only the hottest days of summer. A FAFCO solar pool heating system can cost less to install than a gas heater and it instantly adds value to your home and from then on, your heat is free from the sun.
FAFCO's solar pool heaters simply work--and keep on working. The premium quality, superior technology, and second-to-none performance and reliability of FAFCO solar collectors are backed by an industry leading warranty.
Fun in the Sun has a FAFCO product specifically designed to meet your solar pool heating needs. FAFCO's products feature premium quality, superior technology, highest rated performance and second-to-none reliability. It simply works - and keeps on working so you can enjoy evening swims from early spring through late fall in luxurious warm water.
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SunSaver sets the industry standard for in-ground pool solar heating systems.
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Revolution introduces revolutionary dimple-tube technology that increases the heating efficiency of the solar collector. |
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SunSaver ST provides rugged durability, flexibility, and resistance to even hurricane strength winds. |
Solar Pool Heater Evolution
During the early 1970s, the solar industry switched to polypropylene plastic solar collectors for swimming pool heating. The reasons included:
The copper fluid passageways in solar collectors used for home water heating had a tendency to react chemically with the chlorine in swimming pools under certain conditions, producing copper chloride, a black granular substance that stained pool finishes.
Pool heating requires a very large solar collector surface area (typically 50 to 80 percent of the swimming pool surface) and plastic is more economical than copper.
Even though plastic does not conduct heat as well as copper, it has very acceptable performance at the flow rates and temperature requirements (76–90°F) associated with swimming pool heating.
Polypropylene solar collector manufacturing today is a mature industry with over 30 years of field experience. That said, different manufacturers have taken different approaches to solar collector design. The major branches of the solar pool heating collector family tree are described below:
Connected round tubes
The next development substituted round tubes for the rectangular channels. This reduced the buckling problem because a round tube is stronger than a rectangular channel. However, some manufacturers took advantage of the stronger shape to thin out the wall thickness of the round tubes. This increased heat transfer efficiency.
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