Solar Heater or Solar Furnace for home heating

This video shows some details of the results of my home made solar home heater I built from ideas i got from the web and other youtubers.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• solar
• Furnace
• heater

[EarthElla]

How much black tubing did you use and could you give a description of how you did this? THANK you.

[ssiaudio]

@EarthElla In the other comments, I have said this before but I will save you some reading.  The tubes are 10' x 3" dryer vent that you can get at most hardware stores. I painted it with high heat flat black paint.

[fishnetproductions]

I have watched many videos on solar heating = and = I am completely baffled as to WHY everyone vents / exhaust up instead of down....It seems to me that it would be MORE efficient to vent DOWN as hot air rises.....WHY hasn't anyone tried this.....

[eldrama2]

"the trees are all screwed up" LOL! Is that man code for "pretty?"

[ssiaudio]

@fixt100 The CFM of a PC fan is not enough. I am going up to 120 CFM by using 2 fans.

I will have a video of the new design when I finish it. Subscribe to keep in touch.

[fixt100]

@ssiaudio use a computer fan (12v) and a solar car charger(25$ or so) so the fan is on when the sun is out then it would be a self powering system?

[ssiaudio]

@fixt100 I imagine that would do the job if you can figure out how to make it work and look good. I haven't tried that.

[EarthElla]

How long did it take to make this? It looks a lot easier than the pop can solar heating system. This give me hope of actually doing it and benefitting. Thank you for the post.

[fixt100]

@ssiaudio can you hook it up to a spring loaded switch for the fan and a door of some kind so it opens and turns on during sunlight or past a certain temp?

[ssiaudio]

@TheBerserker50 I have seen that company and the product. I bet it does "blow this one away". He has spend 10-15 years developing it and he sells the for 2500 bucks. It better beat my garage hack version that cost me $600.00. They make a great product but that was not what I was going for. I was just building it for fun and I got a good working unit out of it and have made some money off of the video and saved money from the free heat. Thanks for the comment.

[TheBerserker50]

Canadian company Cansolair makes an incredibly efficient soalr panel that 'looks' like this one ... but it literally blows this one away ... I am not a sales person or distributor for Cansolair.

[Loganthered1]

@jennifer171986 These arent on every house because they only work during the daytime. An effect you can get with some large properly placed windows and no extra holes in your walls. Another thing is no sun no heat. You will still need a way to heat your home on cloudy days and at night.