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One of the most common questions about solar panels is; Does the height of my house have any bearing on the performance of the panels. The answer is not really because the pump pushes the water up to the roof and once up there it has to come down, and as it does, it creates a siphon effect that pulls water up to the roof so the pump does not work any harder than normal operation.

The more panels you have means the water will flow through them slower and will get warmer. A rule of thumb is that the square feet of the solar panels equals the surface area of the pool.
The solar panels that are mentioned below are used in a very northern city, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. If you have ever been to Vancouver you will probably have had some experience with rain. We have about 2 full months of sun in the summer interspersed with rain and that brings down the temperature of the pool water considerably. I also have large trees to the east of me and I don't get the sun on the panels till about 9 A.M. and the sun has been up since 5 A.M. My house roof slopes east and west. A lot of solar panel manufacturers say that the solar panels should be on the west side of the roof for maximum efficiency, that very well could be, but I swim when I get home from work, and like to swim in 82 to 84 degrees Fahrenheit, 26 - 28 degrees Celsius water. So the sun has been on the solar panels all day.
You can purchase a controller that actually controls the temperature of your pool. It has a sensor in the return plumbing that takes a temperature reading and another sensor in the line coming from the pool, if the temperature in the pool is lower then the set temperature, then the controller switches the valve to open and when the pool water reaches desired temperature the valve closes. Now I don't have one of those gadgets because the highest temperature my pool ever got was about 32 degrees Celsius, which by the way is great for night swimming. If I got 3 or 4 really hot days I just didn't turn it on in the morning or I left the solar blanket off over night then I lost about 5 degrees.
So if you want this kind of heat in your pool for free, because the sun is still not taxed. Than take a look below and order your Solar Panel Plans now, and enjoy your pool allot earlier and later in the season. Order yours now and enjoy the rest of the season.

Solar Panel Plans

For plans to make your own 4 foot by 8 foot solar panels for less than $25.00 please click here ( Solar Panel Plans ) and you can download them once the order is placed. These plans can be yours for a low price of $34.95(Cdn) Three of these solar panels can heat your pool by 10 degrees in a day so don't delay order your plans today and enjoy warmer pool water in just 2 days.
The solar panels are made with every day materials you can find in every city in the world, they can be put together by just about anybody with a little bit of do it yourself knowledge. The solar panels can be assembled in one day ready for use the very next day. I have been using these solar panels for three years and they are still heating my pool every day the sun comes out. These Plans are four pages long