MY SOLAR FURNACE self standing solar AIR HEATER

I made this solar air heater last year, thought some of you might be interested in seeing it, took three months, but works great, if any questions email me at carverswoodshop@yahoo.com

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Education

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• solar woodcarving
• solar air heater
• air heater

[redsquirrelftw]

How well does this work in winter, when you need the heat? I've been toying with the idea of doing something like this, would maybe help take the edge off on those -50 days (which tend to have sun)

[carverswoodshop]

@redsquirrelftw it does great but of course you will need another source of heat,, today it was a high of only 27 it was 68 in my home for most of the day with the sun,, but as the sun lowers it has to be heated,, i have propane furnace, and baseboard heat in the home,, i added the propane furnace when i bought the house,, base board heat was the only source of heat

[kricotas]

my question is if you have a picture from the begining to the end of the construction of this beautiful solar heater...:)

i wanna make something like that...

thanks

[carverswoodshop]

@kricotas i did over 20 videos when i was building it and lost all of it when my laptop died , i was so disappointed , nothing i could to to recover it,, so the answer is no, that was also all the photos of the process

[junkyardnut]

This is exactly what I always had in mind. That trasnparent corruglated plastic film is very economical to scale up. I want to suggest that you can add some reflecting materials at the base to bounce up more sunlight into it. You can glue aluminium foil on plywood or OSB boards . I dont understand why some people use beer cans inside it.. I dont see the logic in it.. make no difference with cans !

[carverswoodshop]

@junkyardnut yes there is a lot you can do to improve,, there is always room for improvement

[littlechefxxx]

 very impressive

[carverswoodshop]

update, 11-20-11 today it was 37 degrees in the morning ,, in the house it was 61 with some heating from gas furance overnight,, today it went up the 74 degrees, and at 7 pm it was 67 degrees,, so the heavier fan is a big plus,, the heat coming out of the solar today was near 125 all day,, so its working great with the heavier fan without cooling it down,, i only wish i put this heavier fan on earlier,, :) 

[SunnyMoon2010]

How did you come up with the size of the structure ? 24x8 is huge.. Would you share your calculation ? thx

[Paul02111960]

Good on ya. Good informative video...

[151Tomcat]

I did not understand you, what was the problem with the high temp paint you used the first time?

Thanks

[junkyardnut]

I use mirrors because I can manipulate mirrors to any level of concentration.. I like about 6X concentrated sunlight hiiting at me because it feels like fire!! without any need to chop and clean up the fireplace or stove everyday.. Easy does it!!  Yours is just circulated heated air that is similar to central air systems through ductworks.. which is nice but not as warm and toasty as mirrors that you can concentrate in one room. I hit 150F in one room, sweating bullets!!!!! check it out

[junkyardnut]

I use mirrors because I can manipulate mirrors to any level of concentration.. I like about 6X concentrated sunlight hiiting at me because it feels like fire!! without any need to chop and clean up the fireplace or stove everyday.. Easy does it!! Yours is just circulated heated air that is similar to central air systems through ductworks.. which is nice but not as warm and toasty as mirrors that you can concentrate in one room. I hit 150F in one room, sweating bullets!!!!! check it out

[junkyardnut]

@goose79335 oh you are a HVAC tech... you know what HVAC guys should do ?? Add remote controlled trap doors to every duct line leading to every floor register. You know there is a main duct wtih duct branches spreading out.. The trap doors should be in the main duct .. So you dont have to heat all rooms but selected rooms or occupied rooms. Most rooms are unused so why heat them?

[snoopy9949]

You could heat a city with your frame.

[kricotas]

@carverswoodshop

can you drowing how to designing and process??

my concern is how tick is the inside hot air..

sorry my english im spanish hoo well....

i hope you could made a new one and shoot a nice video

thanks for the video!