UNIVERSAL MOUNTING SYSTEM

SwimEasy is one of the only solar pool heating systems designed to be compliant with home construction codes.

Traditional mounts fit snugly to the collector, allowing no flexibility for the collector to move as the material expands and contracts throughout the day. Collectors restricted by these mounts would bind at each anchor point causing additional and unnecessary stresses to the collector and roof penetrations, leading to increases in product failures.

How Does SwimEasy Solve This? The Universal Mounting System!

The roof mounts are specially engineered to be placed anywhere along the width of the header. This enables the mounts to be anchored directly into roof rafters, adding stability to the panel array.

Secondly, the base of each mount cradles the header, lifting it slightly off the roof. The top secures snugly into the mount base, allowing the panel to be installed easily. This two-piece, “free floating” design permits your panels to expand and contract without causing stress to the panel, the anchor points, or your roof. 

OVER-MOLDED HEADER

SwimEasy consists of a solid, one-piece panel with virtually no manufacturing variances.

SwimEasy uses today’s most advanced technology to create a single-piece, over-molded header. The header is the main conduit that carries your pool’s water to and from the absorber surface. Traditionally, headers are welded to the absorber. Welds tend to naturally weaken over time with the normal stress of expansion and contraction of day-to-day use.

During the manufacturing of SwimEasy panels, raw material is forced into a mold. This material is under intense pressure and high heat as it flows into the mold, directly over the absorber. The result is a solid, one-piece panel with virtually no manufacturing variances. There is more to SwimEasy’s molded header than durability. It is your pool water’s expressway, and traffic jams are not allowed!

Because the header is molded directly around the absorber tubes, there are no barriers, so water freely exits the header into each individual tube. Simple welding, or other manufacturing methods, can block the flow of water significantly at this point, which in turn reduces the amount of heat delivered to your pool. Flow restrictions also add back pressure to the pool’s entire filtration system and can reduce its overall life expectancy. Simply put – the more water that can flow through your heating system, the more heat that will be transferred to your pool.

FLEXIBLE ZIP JOINT SYSTEM

Innovative zip joints allow for vertical expansion and contraction, increasing durability and reducing degradation.

The illustration above details SwimEasy's flexible expansion joints, located every 6 inches across the absorber surface.

These flexible zip joints allow for vertical expansion and contraction; critical for applications where a tree or other shadow-causing element, like chimneys or roof lines, may partially shade the collectors as the sun’s angle changes. Flexible joints eliminate stresses caused by natural temperature variances between panel sections by allowing the panels to move along the joint freely.

Additionally, unlike traditional bonding methods – actual welding of the plastic that can pinch or puncture the absorber surface – there are no manufacturing variances with SwimEasy flexible joints!

HIGH PERFORMANCE ABSORBER

More heat absorption from the sun means more heat transferred to your pool.

When engineering the absorber, a tube-on-fin design was created for its combination of performance and durability. Loose-tube absorber designs produce the least effective heating surfaces, and flat plate and welded tube designs don’t allow for expansion and contraction, leading to premature failure.

Simply put, SwimEasy's tube-on-fin absorber design takes the best of previous designs and combines them, while omitting all their flaws.

The fin, or webbing between each tube, along with the tube itself, collects the sun’s heat and efficiently transfers the heat to your pool water. The fin also enables the collector to flex, expand, and contract without putting pressure on the water-carrying tubes, while allowing the roof to “breathe”.