[RE-wrenches] Piping Reynolds Solar Hot Water Collectors

Brian Mehalic brian at solarenergy.org
Thu Jun 23 04:44:27 PDT 2011


I believe the absorber plate and piping is aluminum, so a galvanic isolation fitting - compression if you can find it - would allow you to transition to copper pipe. 

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On Jun 23, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Christopher Warfel <cwarfel at entech-engineering.com> wrote:

> I have come into possession of two, ~4 x12 Reynolds collectors and I need to pressure test them. It looks like the piping to and from the collectors was radiator hose. I have not been able to find any installation instructions on line for the way to pipe these and was wondering if anyone had a reference source. Thanks for any help. Chris
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