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Posted By Kathy Mowery on July 22, 2011

The foreclosed home we bought two summers ago has solar panels on it for supplementing the hot water heater (I guess from all the pipes and the mysterious box in the closet). This is not to be confused with all the wires and funny little Radio Shack parts we found in another closet that appear to have something to do with cable. Anyway, I digress…

We’ve tried several times to figure the solar stuff out and have spent lots of time on the internet looking for stuff that looks like ours. There aren’t any model names or numbers on the equipment and the only sticker belongs to a company no longer in business.

I tried to post to an expert plumbing board only to find that I couldn’t because I needed a URL for my pictures. Finally got one of those and then found I couldn’t post because I’d posted less than 10 times on their board. Sigh…

So Erik is over there turning knobs and I’m tapping keys trying one more time to solve our little mystery…On the off chance that one anyone reading this is a solar hot water expert, here’s what we’ve got…

Category: The Carpenter's Wife
Tags: solar hot water heater