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Solar Heater Board

American Solar’s Heater Board may represent the most fundamental advance in solar heating technology in the last 50 years, by reducing cost and making solar accessible to all home and building owners.

For many years, solar heating systems have cost about $50 installed per square foot and were only economical for small, year round water heating projects. Most of these old fashioned solar heating systems use water filled panels made of heavy, fragile glass, metal frames, and pressurized liquids in copper tubes. They require panels on the roof and new plumbing systems to heat hot water for several months per year. Most panels were too expensive to install to serve just the shorter season when the largest space heating needs occur.

Heater Boards were designed to solve those problems. Heater Boards are 100% polymer panels that heat air as the working solar fluid. They weigh only 15 pounds per panel and produce heated air at up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit above outside air temperatures. Yet they cost as little as $189 per panel,…, just $6 per square foot. They can be assembled WITH NO TOOLS REQUIRED from DO-IT-YOURSELF kits starting at $289 and are designed for low cost shipment via UPS or the Postal Service.

These fundamentally new panels use 100% polymer construction. This type of material that was not available when most solar collector manufacturers settled on the older collector technologies. As a result Heater Boards can produce solar heat for lower cost, but with proven performance.

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For homeowners, perhaps the most important advancement is that Heater Boards serve the largest energy load in the home, … the space heating load,... which requires 3 times more energy per year than water heating alone. Best of all, the heated air from Heater Boards can also be used to heat water with a very simple solar preheat tank. So your solar heating system can also be your solar water heating system, giving you more solar energy for less money.

So check out our Heater Board website at www.americansolardepot.com to see how you can use solar heat for your home or building.

For commercial, industrial, or agricultural energy users, Heater Boards can deliver lower cost heat than conventional heating sources, savings money and improving your bottom line. Contact American Solar to see how we can integrate Heater Boards in to your building or process to save energy and money. info@americansolar.com