Hot tubb'n stuff..
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:28 am
Hi All-
I'm putting together a community hot-tub for The Second Island- :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Currently I have a tub 5' X 30" and last night I completed the heat exchanger.
The goal is to use pure river water and allow it to flow out right out while in use...
The tub can be heated several ways, gas (expensive but fast), Solar (free but limited to day use)
To make the most versital and USEFUL tub I'm going to heat it with gas right way..
however-
My goal would be to get a community funded Solar Panel for hot water during the day, this will save lots of money pre-heating the tub for late afternoon sesses.
and a photo panel or windmill to charge the batteries, and or pump water.. (I have 3 deep cells)
The biggest power challange will be pumping water (up hill). The current design is an elevated (30") tub , with another 30" of water (5' vertical lift) with a gas fired heat exchanger- If I did this thing right it should flow without power, however it will require LOTS of GAS .. The pump with therefore be used to overflow the tub only. The other item that would be really HOT (pun intended) would be an inclined water solar panel.. This could be set up at any time.. and done in a loop design to auto flow by thermal incline as well. =D> =D> =D> =D>
So thats the latest from the crazy room-
Anyone who might want to contribute with materials, labor, money or BRIGHT IDEAS!, can P.M. me direct-
Some of you might be thinking WHY?
Why Not-
Limm'
I'm putting together a community hot-tub for The Second Island- :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Currently I have a tub 5' X 30" and last night I completed the heat exchanger.
The goal is to use pure river water and allow it to flow out right out while in use...
The tub can be heated several ways, gas (expensive but fast), Solar (free but limited to day use)
To make the most versital and USEFUL tub I'm going to heat it with gas right way..
however-
My goal would be to get a community funded Solar Panel for hot water during the day, this will save lots of money pre-heating the tub for late afternoon sesses.
and a photo panel or windmill to charge the batteries, and or pump water.. (I have 3 deep cells)
The biggest power challange will be pumping water (up hill). The current design is an elevated (30") tub , with another 30" of water (5' vertical lift) with a gas fired heat exchanger- If I did this thing right it should flow without power, however it will require LOTS of GAS .. The pump with therefore be used to overflow the tub only. The other item that would be really HOT (pun intended) would be an inclined water solar panel.. This could be set up at any time.. and done in a loop design to auto flow by thermal incline as well. =D> =D> =D> =D>
So thats the latest from the crazy room-
Anyone who might want to contribute with materials, labor, money or BRIGHT IDEAS!, can P.M. me direct-
Some of you might be thinking WHY?
Why Not-
Limm'