passive solar heater 001.ASF

This is my passive solar heater. This is located in my "sun room/coat room" located on the south side of my house in Maine. There is a door that cuts this room off from the house at night as it gets cold out there. Today is January 13th, 2010. Last nights temp was around zero with no wind. The sun room's temp. this morning was 32 degrees when I woke up. The temp was 70 degrees at 1pm when I made this video. That's a gain of 38 degrees in 7 hours. The addition of the solar heater has led my roses to start growing again like it is spring. I had to take cuttings off them and replant them.

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• Passive solar heater
• solar
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• greenhouse
• gardening
• winter
• energy

[bones76]

I am going to add another one soon. I don't like the wall mount ones that much. These I can just take down and store in the basement when spring comes.

[truemirror]

do you really need the fan since your panel is located indoors? and do you need a glass panel when you have it in the window?

[GoatHollow]

Good job 5*****, have you considered building a larger one to go on the rest of the house? maybe something that surface mounts on the wall, and doesn't block a window. I'm building one that is the size of patio doors.

[Yourbadnightmare]

Nice project , compact and functional. When you add a fan it stops being a passive solar heater and becomes a forced air solar heater and works a little better. A solar panel to power fan would be a nice green touch.

[jonesmatty]

Sweet setup! I could have used that for the last 2 weeks here in FL.