Soda pop beer can Solar Powered heater furnace panel - Part 3

This is part 3, please watch parts 1 & 2 to see how I built this. The testing continues. I have seen alot of you mounting your solar heaters on a flat wall, so I did the same thing. If you angle your box towards the sun you can increase your temp dramatically. The concern I have now is if I tilt the box I could damage my intake and exhaust tubes.

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• solar
• heater
• furnace
• cansolair
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• wyatt
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• thermal
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• tap

[zsnowshredder]

"CD Technology Solar Attic fan " just google it

[RFWUSA]

this is badass. congratulations and thanks for sharing. wish you were my neighbor to learn how to do this. i'll add to my shed...

[zsnowshredder]

@RFWUSA Just look for part 1 & 2 on my youtube channel and it will show you how to build it.

[madjamfree]

I'm going to make one but using thermo glass (double glaze). do you think that would work?

[zsnowshredder]

@madjamfree I think some people have tried that and it has worked pretty good. Try it and if it blow 200 cfm at 130 150 degrees...it will be working perfect

[djsqueeze2001]

the evo 8 parked in the garage made the video 10x cooler....

[zsnowshredder]

@djsqueeze2001 Good eye, I love my EVO 8

[JohnSmith18989]

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[frog6418]

The concept is sound, but I can't help but notice a common problem in the design, and that is the air intake and output are backwards, To heat a room the fastest way possible is to have the air intake on the top and the heat duct at the bottom, Hot air rises and therefore heats the whole room as it rises, by putting the hot air duct at the top you just have hot air at the roof line and cool air at the floor, by switching the ducts you will have a nice and even temp throughout the room.

[Bootsbaby]

@aspiringbodhisattva the vents would still be circulating through the furnace, so it wouldn't matter how you switched up the flow. Cover it with a blanket/board and just don't run the fan?

[Bootsbaby]

Unfortunately, in a place like western Washington....the sun likes to hide in the clouds. And even if it did come out to play, there's a good chance the S. Side of your house is shaded by trees.... =( Otherwise, I'd totally try this out.

[mag7mm1]

How many watts is your solar panel?

[peterjol]

Ideally it needs mounting on some sort of 'clock' mechanism that will turn it throughout the day to constantly face the sun although I guess that would make it a hell of a lot more complicated.

[hendrixnut]

Hey, just subscribed! Where did you get your attic fan?



[aspiringbodhisattva]

Gorgeous set up. Question! How are you shutting a system like this down for the summertime? Seems an easy way to turn a house into an oven when it's 80-100 outside. And with the angle, which you mentioned shifting (ideally to line up with the winter incidence angle, I'm guessing): might that allow for switching the house in and outtake ducts, hot from top of heater down a duct to the floor, cold pulling the air from the ceiling down the bottom of the panel?

[RaveSlave]

a sun tracker is quite easy to make, there's loads of video's here/ open source

[jackpontiac52]

As far as angling the unit goes. Would it not be better to have more rows of popcans, with fewer stacked. That way, when you angle it, it does not stick out as far from the shop.

Fan: An axial fan blowing into a duct is not as efficient as a fan sucking air out of a duct. This is because of the swirling of the air caused by rotation of the fan. Then again, this swirling might be good for air distribution inside the unit.

Anyway, this method looks like the way to go! Low Cost. Recycling,GOOD!