Solar Water Heater America is your one stop information page for everything you want and need to know about solar water heaters. Solar Water Heater America stands ready to answer your solar questions about heating hot water and to let you know what the most reasonable and affordable pricing is available for your solar water heater needs today.

For thousands of years people have been using one form or another of a nature’s solar water heaters to manufacture a warm bath, cook food or wash their clothes for little or not cost. Collecting solar energy from the sun to heat cold water is nothing new in today’s modern world, but solar water heaters have been commercially available since the 1800s, but it hasn’t been until 2000 that it was economically affordable and in this year of 2007 it is down right inexpensive. What is new and unique is how solar water heaters look and feel today. Almost all modern solar water heaters mount flush with a home's roof and resemble and look remarkably like modern home skylights. Solar water heaters are the best green energy available today and environmentally sound way to reduce energy bills.

Having the right solar panels generating the appropriate solar energy is the best way to meet part or all of a home's residential and domestic hot water needs. Depending upon where one lives and your Geographic location, the type of solar power electric system design and installation one selects, the appropriate and best available solar panel for your inspection as well as having the best appropriate sizing for your needs will determine how much energy can be provided for your residential and domestic solar hot water heating.

It should come as no shock for you today that solar water heaters come in a variety of solar configurations, set ups and designs. Each solar unit package will be different in their design, cost, performance, and the level of installation complexity. That said, most systems will also have back-up water heating in the form of gas or electric heating just in case of solar meltdown, solar shade, or a solar system malfunction. A solar water heating system generating solar hot water usually consists of a hot water storage tank, a solar collector unit, aka, solar panel configuration that absorbs solar energy, a back-up energy source of electricity or gas, and in some solar water heater processes there will be a pump and heater controls.

There are two main types of solar water heater systems that will generate solar hot water; there is the passive system and the forced water circulation system. Within each type of solar water heating system, there are several technical configurations for you to choose from. The passive water heater system consists of a water tank that is integrated into or located above your solar collector panel system. In an integrated solar collector panel storage (ICS) system, also called a batch solar water heater, the solar water is heated and stored inside the solar panel collector. These solar heating systems are suitable for warm climates only where there is no risk of freezing, like most of California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, specifically the cities of San Diego, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Albuquerque, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tarzana, Encino, Irvine, Lawndale, Torrance, Culver City and Thousand Oaks. In a solar heater passive system where the storage is separate from the solar panel collector, as water in the solar collector warms, water flows by natural convection through the solar panel collector to the solar storage tank. A forced solar circulation system requires a solar pump to move solar water from the solar storage tank to the solar panel collector. Most solar water heater systems in the United States are the forced circulation type.

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