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Dec 13

One for the water fairies and wood elves. [ http://www.chinavasion.com/iwwh ]. This floating light should definitely bring a dash of night-time magic to peoples gardens and as the solar powered accent lighting from Chinavasion is solar powered it shouldn’t make your power bill magically grow larger either.

Who would like this: People who want something to light up their garden at night. People looking for decorative solar lights to make their pond pool or fountain look spectacular.

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Who doesn’t like a beautiful garden, especially one with a pool pond or water feature? And the garden shouldn’t lose its sparkle just because the sun has gone to bed for the night. But who wants to pay the electricity bills? Thankfully there are solar powered outdoor lights and solar floating lights now to cover that eventuality.

After all, who wouldn’t want to inject a little bit of fairyland magic into their gardens at night?

Wholesale electronics manufacturer Chinavasion has come up with some very low-priced floating pool lights that would definitely go a treat in the garden.

The 3 Color Changing Solar Garden Light is a waterproof plastic orb that contains a solar panel and color changing LED. Once these outdoor solar lights have drawn enough sun and are switched on they cycle through three colors without giving off their shape.

Depending on where these solar powered lights are hung they could accentuate the movement and position of a body of water as solar pool lights or solar pond lights the movement of the pond or hang in the air and shine like a UFO as decorative solar lights thanks to their defractor lens for even lighting.

So this could make them quite handy as party lights, depending on the type of party that you’re throwing.

The floating LED lights have a built in hook which lets them be used as a floating pool light or solar light with ease and because there’s no wiring this solar powered light could be the easiest thing youve ever put in the garden.

Check out the specs for this floating pool light at [ http://www.chinavasion.com/iwwh ] or see what other outdoor solar lights and floating lanterns Chinavasion has at [ http://www.chinavasion.com/index.php/cName/solar-products/ ]

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Dec 13

Last year I installed a solar pool heater that I made myself. I just T’d the 2inch pipe coming out from the pump and the T side was 1 inch. Thus, the T slips off some of the circulating water and runs it through a set of 1/2 inch black tubing. There are two headers at each end and then the water comes out onto the slide and back into the pool.

The pool temp on this day started out at 68 degrees in the morning. Granted it was a nice sunny day and the outside temp was about 74. The pool water was up to 73 degrees during the shooting of this video and the water coming out of the solar heater was almost 79 degress. It had been 80 degress coming out most of the day even though the air temperature was 74 for most of the day. This was a relatively cheap way to achieve solar heating for your pool. Now each pool is different so I am not sure of your set up but this was a pretty easy way to set up the solar heater. I might add additional tubing and another header at each end this year in order to increase the pool temp even more. NOTHING LIKE FREE ENERGY FROM THE SUN TO HEAT THE POOL!!! The pump still runs off of the grid and isn’t solar. Maybe someday I will upgrade the pump to solar.

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Dec 13

Solar power pool heating can be home-made at low cost for those with low budget that cant pay the 1000 dollars, her’s a solution for aprox 300 dollars cost.
You need :

copper tubes
T-joints
flame torch
tin wire
“U” shaped extruded frame
rivet gun & rivets or use silicone to fix frame
galvanised steel sheet (paint black)
grey foam sheet insulator roll
spray paint can
5mm glass
silicon sealer

all working a 1m x 2m solar panel will give at least 60 degrees at water tap pressure….this is because the tubes are in parallel and the speed at which the water runs thru the tubes is lower than entry and exit, transferring maximum amounts of heat from the black painted tubes.

good luck!

questions to alex
solidfactory@terra.es

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Dec 13

This video show how a Fresnel Lens can be used to generate heat in water for a pool. It also illustrates the inability to heat water only. and the need for a dark target. The heat sink used in this video falls short of being a true dark object but the green color looked cool.

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