“The collectors for heating will be homemade with copper cores, modules direct drive power to pumps (and extra pumps). Those will provide much of the hot water and heating here (well over 300 sun days). “
Serious hardware. I TRUE FREEPER!!!
Thanks. If anyone else is interested, see the following. The system can be modified, scaled up or whatever, and the aviation engineer who developed it has also built other systems. Thanks to him for offering the designs.
$2K Solar Space + Water Heating — One Simple DIY System
http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/SpaceHeating/DHWplusSpace/Main.htm