Get professional help for your solar thermal panel repair
So if you have an issue with a solar thermal panel, who do you call? An electrician, or a plumber? Neither.
You need a specialist solar panel installer and repairer, which is where we come in. Our engineers have worked on a wide range of solar panels produced by a lot of different manufacturers, so you can rest assured that they will find the most economical solution to your solar panel problems, whatever they are.
What are solar thermal panels?
The purpose of solar thermal panels is to provide cheap hot water for your household. The other type of solar panels, solar PV (photovoltaic), is designed to generate cheap electricity for use in your home or business, or to sell to the national electricity grid for cash. Both rely on the sun’s rays to produce the power necessary for their function.
This means that the failure or drop in performance of solar thermal panels may have a greater and more immediate effect on your quality of life than if a solar PV panel developers a fault or gets broken. Solar thermal is between 70%-80% effective at converting solar energy to hear; solar PV on the other hand is only around 15%-22% efficient. It is cheaper to install than solar PV, and takes up less roof space.
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What can go wrong with solar thermal panels?
The risks of damage to solar thermal panels are the same as those for solar PV panels, but because a solar thermal system requires plumbing as well as electricity supplies there are more ancillary and moving parts components that are always prone to fault or failure.
On the plus side, you are more likely quickly to notice the warning signs of a malfunction of solar thermal than solar PV panels, and take action to remedy them.
Typical problems include:
- Malfunctioning or noisy pumps
- Re-gassing
- Pressure fluctuations
- Water leaks
- Control centre malfunction
- Anti-freeze not topped-up
- Air locks
- Atmospheric corrosion
- Coil problems
Prevention is better than cure
Better safe than sorry
Since the panels have no moving parts and also appear to be out of harm’s way, you may have left their performance to chance, rather than detailed inspection and review. Our advice to customers is that a solar thermal system needs to be surveyed every year, at which time its power-generation performance is calibrated, and every electrical and plumbing appliance inspected and tested, down to the smallest fuse.
Solar panels - repair or replace?
Many of the oldest and truest sayings apply to solar panel systems, including “out of sight, out of mind”, because that are on a roof section that you may not see very often.
Our method
- Panel/ Tube replacement
- Fault diagnosis
- Controller replacement
- Pump station replacement
If you have any queries or problems concerning your solar panel installation, please use our contact form, or check our solar panel FAQs page, where you might find the answer.
To book a SOLAR REPAIR PERFORMANCE AUDIT today
CALL 0330 124 2941