DIY: Solar Powered Water Heater in 3 Steps

In this first Ecowanderer DIY instructable you will learn, step-by-step, how to make a simple solar water heater from simple household items.

Feel free to pause the video whenever you need time to read, or, check the instructions directly at:

Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Solar-Powered-Water-Heater-3-Steps/

Ecowanderer: http://ecowanderer.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/diy-solar-powered-water-heater/

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Song: Just One Of Those Things - Lee Morgan

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• solar
• water
• heater
• barrel
• sun
• pvc
• pipe
• parabola
• diy
• eco
• green
• ecological
• clean

[nottooclosepleeze]

Does this mean you can only heat up a pipes worth of water at one time. I can't imagine that the water can heat as quick as it can flow through the pvc..(can it????)

[ecowandererblog]

@nottooclosepleeze: Theoretically, the water will heat as quick as it can flow through the pvc, so the whole mechanism allows to heat all the water it can take (aprox. 20 L). However, ever since this heater was finished (18th december), there has not been a sunny day for me to be able to try it out.

[yaryar1976]

hard to stay with that music.like ur idea tho.

[apples13able]

use copper instead of PVC and have i loop back into tank with heat exchanger lower than tank so water can naturally circulate, put T in cirulate line, add a valve to T. I would have cut hole on side near bottom so it is easier to mount on any bar stool or whatever. Paint tank black, or better yet, use a black tank and put that in the sun as well. Double as a radiator. Some ideas... I think it's possible to weld up that plastic somehow? I forgot how but I think i read that somewhere...

[wingmanalive]

40 years ago my grandfather rigged a way to heat the water in his pool by simply using the pool's filter to pump water through copper pipes laid out on the deck's black shingled roof, then back into the pool. Raised the pool's temp by 10 degrees and was free, just had to install a little stronger pump. Do you know how much ppl spend on heating their pools???

[blurglide]

Half a cylinder is not a parabola.

[crsbt]

music was awful

[justaman6972]

nice try, but it isn't gonna work bro, you'd be a bit better off using large coils of black pvc on top of your roof with a gravity feed for flow to the spigot. Good idea tho.

[MegaLuckydog1]

shove the music ok?

[Peterwhitlock]

he builds a AIR room heater and called it a water heater...sheeesh!

all this crap he made does is heat the room by air that he could do the same with laying down of black material on the floor... also notice this fool has no furniture in the room ether.

wasted a barrel for nothing and made a really crappy reflector too.

just about anyone can do better and not waste a 20 buck barrel in the job.

in fact no barrel at6 all is needed

and NO water will not heat up in the PVC IT would LEAK

JUNK!

[jbm4551]

had to watch it on mute :(

[HayenMill]

@EricSpringHillFL : Nobody is forcing any "ear splitting sewage" on you. If it still rings in your head even after you muted it, consider putting some other music of your preference playing while the video runs.