Hi Deej,
Been away too long .... but having gone through our site you now now know why ..... lot's of renovations on our home this year. Just starting to catch our breath.
Hi Stins,
Nice to 'meet' :-) you.
Unfortunately, the sunniest day we have had in the past 2 weeks was the day we installed it. However, it does not take long for the sun to come out before it starts to generate heat. I was actually surprised how much heat as I don't understand terms like BTU and what it actually means.
However, so far so good. We have a unique (I think) situation where we want it to heat the basement bedroom when our college bound daughter is home, yet when she is not home we want it to help heat the rest of the basement. So, as the articles we are writing about our experiences will discuss and illustrate (with pictures) we used insullated flexible duct line to have the heated air directed to two separate vents.
I'm still surprised more people don't know about these devices. There are several mgtrs out there; we chose ours because the product is CSA approved, included by the Canadian Federal Government in it's ecoENERGY Retrofit program for industrial / institutional / commercial buildings (i.e. owners of those buildings will receive grant money to help offset the cost), the model we purchased and installed uses recycled 'beverage' cans as the primary component (talk about eco-friendly) and generates lots of heat without needing a second unit.
I am also thinking (supposition on my part) that when there is snow on the ground, just like a snow skier needs sunglasses to help reduce the sun's UV rays bouncing off of the snow, the unit will also be heated by lot's of indirect sunlight bouncing off of the snow. We'll see.
Dan
