Copper Pipe Pool Heater

Materials one old but useful fire pit or grill 60 foot coil of 3 8 copper tubing 10 feet 1 2 water hose plastic 1 2 female water hose adapter recommended and zip tie 6 feet black foam pipe insulator 1 2 hose clamp comes with female hose adapter above 4 wire copper pipe hangers 1000.

Copper pipe pool heater.

For home plumbing copper pipe has several advantages. Copper pipe for pools built in the 50 s and 60 s copper pipe was used as the standard before pvc pipe came into use. Sun ray pool panels are made of a number of roll formed copper aluminum fin tubes spaced 4 apart or less. It is copper from this source or from corrosion of copper heater cores or piping that is capable of causing blue green or even dark colored staining or discoloration.

Naturally occurring copper is occasionally found in well water. If you have metal plumbing lines on your pool you can bet that you will end up replacing those pipes at some point. Building the collector box. Copper pipe is more earthquake resistant than pvc or cpvc and has a melting point 5x higher than cpvc so it won t burn in a fire like plastic pipe.

Either coil the copper pipe or lay the pvc pipe back and forth on the plywood. Start with the actual collector. For parts that contain copper like metal piping in older pools and copper heat exhangers in pool heaters small amounts of copper from these surfaces will be released into the pool water. The absorbing fin sections are mechanically bonded 360 around a od seamless copper flow tubing and crimped on its horizontal axes for maximum heat transfer.

Copper problems can be controlled with proper chemical treatment and techniques. Copper flashing backing plate. Mount them to the board using either adhesive or pipe mounts. A solar assisted pool heater is very easy to construct and use.

So the size of the collector box was dictated by the glass size 76 x 46. Manifold and backing plate. There are only a few important parts. Black pvc pipe works but copper pipe painted black works even better.

Metal plumbing copper or galvanized steel plumbing systems should not be used for swimming pools and hot tubs however there are still some copper plumbed pools in operation.