It's important to take care of your solar heating system. Below are freeze preventions steps:
- Turn off the solar heating system at controller (if a manual system turn 3-way valve into the solar off position)
- Turn off the pool pump
- Open solar drain valve (if you have a manual draining system)
- Remove endcap on solar panel and let system drain for a hour
- If you can not get on your roof wait 2 hours for the VRV to drain your panels
- Close isolation valves (ONLY AFTER SYSTEM IS DRAINED)
- The pool pump, filter, and pool sweeps can now be used while remaining isolated from the solar system.
Please note: Operating your solar system during freezing conditions IS NOT an approved freeze-protection method
PV and Goldline Controlled Solar Hot Water Systems Freeze protection Procedure:
- Goldline Controlled System: Unplug controller from the wall outlet
(or) PV Controlled System: Disconnect both wire nuts connecting wires together and pull the wires apart disconnecting power from the PV panel to the pump ( The wire nut connections are located by the pump)
- Close isolation valves on both feed and return lines
- Connect water hose on to the feed line drain valve and drain completely. Repeat process on the return lines drain valve until both lines are empty