Mirasol Integrated System Design Update

Barbara from Los Cerrillos, NM contacted us in January with a request to purchase 4 Evacuated Tube Collectors to assist with heating her 2000 square foot, radiant heated home and her indoor swimming pool. She is using propane to heat both her home and the swimming pool and her heating costs are huge! Barbara had some of her own ideas on how to make only 4 solar collectors work for her--she is an experienced construction contractor herself and very savvy. Luis went over her plans with her and found that in order to achieve her goals of 60% efficiency with solar, she would need to add more collectors and a huge, custom-made water storage tank. Integrated systems--providing energy for more than one purpose with the same system--is very tricky. She would have to double the budget she had planned for the project.

Luis was up for the challenge and decided he would design the system for her to do what she needed with the budget she had planned. He spent days of his own time consulting with solar engineers and manufacturers of solar products to come up with the perfectly designed, integrated, pressurized 50 gallon storage tank drain-back solar thermal system. New products & new discoveries in solar engineering have made this kind of system possible. It takes a gifted mechanical designer who is willing to learn new things, like Luis, to design a system with this kind of complexity and build it for half the money than our competitors charge for the standard glycol systems.

In Barbara's new solar system, Luis installed a customized Mirasol Energy Controller. The controller is also a Mirasol proprietary design that will reduce the cost of installing a solar system.

Mirasol Solar Energy Systems goal is to find ways for solar to be affordable for everyone. If you would like to install solar in your home, give us a call. A custom-designed solar system by Mirasol Solar Energy Systems is affordable!

We will post photos of Barbara's system at a later date.