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that's a great and novel idea to use regular radiators as heat collectors, proprietary heat collectors can be very expensive (and fragile).
Do you have any findings on comparative efficiency between these and the proprietary types?
No, i have not got such comparison data,
because I have got only these type of collectors.
You must know, that the corrosion within steel collectors are bigger than copper collectors. I found corrosion slime in the water. To filter them, i inserted a filter into the pipeline.
After 5 years of operation, the radiators were leaked because point corrosions in multiple places around.
I replaced the radiators to brand new ones, and modified the system structure from drain back to pressurized full filled type. Moreover the water was replaced with propilene glycol with anti corrosion additives.
I had issues with the propilene glycol transfer fluid, because it is harder to pump, and the filter is causing bigger resistance than in case of water. The flow was weak, and the controller stopped after a while because the pump failed to cool down the collector withing the maximum allowed time. By removing the filter mesh from the filter housing, the problem was solved.
I hope it will be reliable from now.