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An amazing breakthrough in clean, energy efficient hot water! - Low cost to operate
- Environmentally friendly & low noise
- No solar equipment on the roof
- Fabulous Government rebates available
- Extracts solar heat from air, day & night
- Ideal for low cost off-peak power tariffs
- Quality, long life, stainless steel water tank
- 10 year tank warranty in domestic use
- Light & easy to transport, handle & install
- Does not dump water in the heat
- Split system for flexible installation options
- Domestic and Commercial models
- Tough polymer casing is rust proof & damage resistant
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The Solarstream is exeptionally energy efficient. Families that use more than 300 litres a day (four or more people) will save hundreds of dollars every year compared to conventional gas or electric hot water. And this is an environment freindly design reducing more green house gases than conventional gas or electric solar. Tests performed on a winter's evening in Melbourne with air temperature of 14 degrees centigrade at the beginning of the test and 11.4 deg C at the end of test, showed that Solarstream heated 340 litres of water from scratch in 3 hours and 10 minutes with a Coefficient of Performance (COP) of 3.3. (This is a factor of efficiency greater than a conventional electric water water, which has a COP of around .85). How does it work: The Siddons Solarstream is a Heat Pump Water Heater. The copper condenser coil is the heat exchanger. It is wrapped under compression around the outside of a marine grade, stainless steel tank, integrating it with the water tank in a design that provides a very large conductive area, making it very efficient. This design also keeps the refrigerant completely seperated from the hot water. In operation, the heat recovery unit of the Solarstream captures solar heat from ambient air and fan forces it through a fin coil, similar to the reverse cycle of an air conditioner. The warm refrigerant is then super heated by compression, pumped through the condenser coil and transferred to the water tank via a very effective, patented design giving amazing performance. There are no welds or joins in this design between the copper coil and the stainless steel tank so that these different metals are free to expand and contract differently. This robust design together with the use of the best materials available will ensure long operational life from your Solarstream. If you use the cheap night rate, you will save even more and you will also save the environment because night time electricity, if not used, is otherwise wasted. |
