You may be able to - please ask us if your existing cylinder is suitable. We recommend Azzuro Solar Cylinders because these are specially designed to maximise the solar energy available to you, and so minimise the amount of top-up electricity required for your household.

Solar cylinders are specifically designed to ensure that as much energy as possible is captured from the sun, for a given system design. Solar cylinders are sized to hold more water than non-solar cylinders. Warm water in the cylinder naturally rises to the top of the cylinders. This is where it is drawn off when you turn the tap on. Cooler water tends to be at the lower part of the cylinder. For open loop systems, the water in the colder part of the cylinder, at and near the bottom, is drawn through the solar collectors to get warmed by the sun. We prefer this water to be as cool as practical when it circulates through the solar collectors, so that we capture as much of the sun's energy as possible. For closed loop systems, the heat exchange coil, which carries heated fluid back from the collectors, is located at the lower part of the cylinder, so that the sun warmed fluid can give up as much of its captured heat energy as possible, by giving it up to the coolest water in the cylinder. It is preferable for the electric element of solar cylinders to be located near the middle of the tank, so that when the element kicks in, only the water above the element is boosted to higher temperatures. In order to provide you with the same volume of stored hot water as a non-solar cylinder at any time, we work out the amount of water above the element which your family would need. This means that the tank we use needs to be larger than normal. For example, if you normally have a 180 litre tank at home for 4 people, we will recommend a solar cylinder of 300 litres capacity for you.

Most of our systems take a day or so to install, but some systems take longer depending on ease of access, and cylinder configurations.

PV Amourphous - Flexible panels

Azzuro Solar Water Heating

PV gridPak

PV microGrid

PV solarPak

PV Crystalline - small

PV Crystalline - large

PV Crystalline - marine

alphaLight

Solar LED path lights