How the system works

• Our solar panels convert light into energy
• Works on cloudy days and in the cold
• Compatible with your existing boiler
• Installs into all roof types
• For homes, pools and commercial uses
• Generates up to 70% of your water heating

Thermal solar is the use of light to generate energy in the form of heat. This light starts with the sun which constantly emits energy by radiation in the form of light. Light can travel through the vacuum of space, but only limited amounts of heat can. Each year we get about 4380 hours of light and only some of this light is in the form of direct sunshine. Solar thermal panels are designed to work not only in direct sunshine but also in the light levels experienced on a very cloudy day.

The black surface inside the glazed solar panel is "selectively coated" with a special material made from aluminium oxide. It is called selective coating because the surface is coated in a way that some parts receive marginally more coating than others creating a surface which under a microscope looks like ranges of mountains. This enables many surfaces to be presented to the light.

The reason for the special selective coating is that when light strikes matter in the atmosphere it causes the molecules to vibrate. That vibration causes friction which results in heat. The selective coating specially designed and used in our panels enables the molecules to vibrate and create heat in all types of light conditions, including below freezing weather conditions.

Once the heat is captured by the solar panels on the absorber plate it conducts into the pipe work running through the panels. This piping is filled with an edible safe glycol to prevent freezing.

The sensors in the panels and in the hot water cylinder feed information about the state of the system to a digital controller, which is connected to a special pumping station. When the digital controller recognises that there is energy available in the panels and energy is needed in the cylinder, it switches on the pump, pushing the hot glycol in the panels around the heat circuit and into the cylinder, making the solar coil in the cylinder very hot. The solar coil conducts its heat to the water stored in the cylinder. When the cylinder reaches a pre set temperature level the controller switches off the pump and the system returns to rest.

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