First Year Performance for $1K Solar Water Heating System

The first full year of performance for the $1K Solar Water Heating system is in the books.  The graph below shows Solar Fraction by month.

All the details, and detailed plots that show collector, tank top, tank bottom, and ambient temperature are here...



So, this is the end of the promised one year of logging -- I now get my loggers back for other projects!

I've also a added a page that describes how I estimate Solar Fraction,
and considers some sources of error, and describes how my method
differs from the SRCC ratings of solar water heating systems.

Gary