Solar Panel Installation Training Course
Solar panel installation training course: 2 days : £200
If you are a competent DIYer and would like to install your own high quality Solar Panel home water heating system, then this hands-on Cambridgeshire based installation training course is the one for you.
You will work with another trainee under the supervision of your personal instructor and YOU WILL install a solar water heating system:
- Drain down and remove an existing hot water cylinder
- Correctly install a solar (twin coil) cylinder, avoiding common mistakes
- Assemble a solar panel frame (without attaching evacuated tubes)
- Fix solar panel frame to a roof (working on a scaffold)
- Drill necessary pipework holes through roof tiles
- Insert pipe work through the roof and make watertight
- Plumb up the complete system from solar panel to cylinder with all the necessary components (avoiding common mistakes):
- Circulation pump
- Non-return valve
- Automatic Air Vent
- Expansion vessel
- Filling system
- Pre-cooling vessel (if required)
- Install and set up a solar controller, including temperature sensors, etc.
- Fill and flush the system
- Attach the evacuated tubes to the solar panel frame (without breaking them)
- Commission and test you first working solar panel installation
This course is two days of hard work but as you have to do all of the installation work yourselves, you will leave with the ability to plumb in a domestic solar hot water system. In addition, you will:
- Glean invaluable advice about your own proposed system
- Be advised about more complex systems
- Be shown flatplate, direct flow and heatpipe collectors as each have different installation requirements
