Designing With the Solar System

DeSoto Solar
Working with Nature, the Solar System, and the Environment

These web pages are provided to help you better understand how our products work with nature to do their jobs. None of the information provided here is particularly complicated, but these basic concepts are key to grasping how devices with no moving parts can work intelligently. Enjoy!

Solar Energy
- The energy we're after
  A look at the energy provided by the sun and how that relates to our design philosophy.
- Automatic seasonal heating control
  A look at how we use the solar system itself as a thermostat to turn our panels on in the winter and off in the summer.
- Monthly US solar energy maps from NREL
  See how weather affects vertical panel solar energy collection in the USA. At the bottom of the page is a link to a Windows/DOS program you can use with these maps to estimate heat production for vertical panels.
- Passive solar heating panel types
  How passive panels can be designed to deliver heat more efficiently. With drawings.

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DeSoto SolarWorking with Nature, the Solar System, and the Environment

DeSoto Solar
Working with Nature, the Solar System, and the Environment