Solar pv panels produce electricity from the sun.
Connect solar panel to immersion heater.
Its intelligent sensing technology prevents the export of surplus power to the grid for negligible returns and uses it for local consumption meaning you.
Immersion heaters powered by solar pv.
Hi experts i am planing to buy a 250 500 watt solar pv panel and connect it directly to my 2kw immersion heater attached to hot water cylinder without any.
However you may not be aware that there is a gadget which enables you to keep this surplus energy use it to power your immersion heater reduce your electricity bills even further and still.
Modulation based solar pv surplus energy manager that monitors in house usage and pv power production to divert almost all the available surplus power to the immersion heater to heat water.
I believe this should work in principal and should raise temperature of water by 10 15 degrees in one day.
Pure dc to heating element.
Using immersion heater for water tanks will ensure that after the water is heated by either by solar or the regular power source it can be stored in insulated storage tanks for later use.
Solar pv panels will often produce more energy than you can use in a day and without a solar battery your surplus will be sent to the national grid.
I am planing to buy a 250 500 watt solar pv panel and connect it directly to my 2kw immersion heater attached to hot water cylinder without any convertor inverter in between.