How I build my solar heater part one (14)
In this video I show you how I am building my solar heater. I know there are different and better ways to do it, but these are the materials I could get chea…
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Geweldig filmpje! Inderdaad leuk om te doen, kost geen drol en ook nog eens goed bezig.
Rene Kleisman
July 22, 2013 at 9:41 am
I made holes in each can and then took a copper pipe and stuck it through each can. I am able to pump water through the copper pipe so I can heat water. At least that was the plan, but this experimental setup is not efficient enough for the weatherconditions in the Netherlands. It is easier and more efficient to use metal sheet but soda cans work, although it takes a lot of labour to make it work with soda cans 🙂 didn’t cut the first bottle at the top, and a small hole in the last bottle.
insAneTunA
July 22, 2013 at 10:01 am
The 1 dislike was an accident.. Must have been. This video is fantastic!! how do you keep the cans off the bottles?
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July 22, 2013 at 10:36 am
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slanderousndgs
July 22, 2013 at 11:22 am
real Cool I’m gonna try it when back in Africa, these hotels throw out lots of cans and bottles….Respect!
amintafall
July 22, 2013 at 11:49 am
Hi hortop1, the bottles don’t touch the cans. I live in Holland so I don’t know if the bottles hold up in a country where it is warm all the time. But then you can think about a box and a glass window. With my first experiments I had it up to 161 F or 71 Celsius without any problem.
insAneTunA
July 22, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Do the plastic bottles ever touch the cans, and melt ?
hortop1
July 22, 2013 at 12:46 pm
Thank you Rich 🙂
insAneTunA
July 22, 2013 at 1:08 pm
very cool i like your video neat looking rich
RICH ALLEN
July 22, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Thank you for your kind words Paul. If the bottles don’t work or shrink by the heat I can always make something more durable later. But I’m just as curious to see the end results as you are 🙂 I’ll just keep on trucking. Very recently Stanford University developed new solar cells that collect sunlight but also the heat from the sun at the same time. Those new solar cells can compete with natural resources like oil. I hope you will have a great day Paul.
Greets, iT
insAneTunA
July 22, 2013 at 2:02 pm
Cool video insAneTunA. Nice idea to use mostly recycled materials. it will be cool to see how it all works once you are finished. Keep up the good work.
Paul
rcFoamFighters
July 22, 2013 at 2:11 pm
Thanks 🙂 I’ve planned to connect them in parallel, and i will see what the result is going to be. I’m going to use gravity and the siphon action to pump the water around. So far the bottles seem to hold up, they can handle 155F in full contact with water. But as I explain in the video all the heat wants to go inside towards the copper pipe. Metal is a better heat conductor then the air that is surrounding the soda cans. The only way to find out if it holds up is to try it 🙂
insAneTunA
July 22, 2013 at 3:06 pm
I like where you are going with this. Inexpensive and easy to assemble.
Are you connecting these in series, so each heating element feeds into the one next to it? This would allow the temperature to increase as the water travels through each heating element. The only problem would be whether the plastic bottles would hold up to the heat.
You could also use copper tubing from the valve, back down through the cans and coiled back up and out to the next heating element.
HHO4ALL
July 22, 2013 at 3:35 pm
Ja precies, en een vaatwasser en een wasmachine kan er ook prima warm water van pakken mits je apparatuur geschikt is om direct warm water te accepteren. En makkelijke over unity is naar mijn bescheiden mening alleen mogelijk met een externe energie bron die voortkomt uit aardwarmte, wind, de zon, getijde, of een andere energie bron op kwantum niveau. Energie kan immers niet uit het niets gecreëerd worden, het verandert slechts van vorm. Met kleine stapjes kan je ver komen.
Groet, iT
insAneTunA
July 22, 2013 at 4:26 pm
I don’t think that would be very efficient. A galvanic element is already very inefficient. With this design the estimated max temperature will be around 160F Many people forget that this water is excellent for the dishwasher or your wash machine. It is far better to use the heat directly. Although Stanford university recently developed a solar cell that can collect the sun’s heat and sunlight at the same time. Those panels will be able to compete with natural resources like oil
insAneTunA
July 22, 2013 at 5:26 pm
Ik heb er nog eens over nagedacht, en omdat ik niet in “makkelijke” overunity geloof, tot de conclusie gekomen dat je dan simpelweg minder output volume hebt, en mogelijk meer verlies door <100% isolatie. Maar als je slechts een beetje water nodig hebt om te koken, is het wel zo makkelijk.
Mooi werk wat je doet.
Cloxxki
July 22, 2013 at 5:41 pm
Great vid, and great comments, “Yes”, “Ok” 😛 , cant wait to see more
could this be used with an galvanisch element, to produce electricity ?
JohnnBlade
July 22, 2013 at 5:45 pm
Ha, jazeker, gewoon stug doorgaan is het motto 🙂 Ik heb een leuk circuit gevonden waarmee een LED aan en uit gaat als het donker en licht wordt. Bij elkaar 4 onderdelen en een batterij, en dat is inclusief de LED die aan en uit moet gaan. Dus bij elkaar 1 LED, dan 1 fotodiode, 1 transistor en 1 weerstand. De video van het circuit staat als 1 van de laatste en dus nieuwste video’s tussen mijn favoriete video’s op mijn youtube kanaal.
Groetjes, iT
insAneTunA
July 22, 2013 at 6:28 pm
Dat zou best wel eens zo kunnen zijn, en ik denk zeker dat het tegen de tijd dat ik zover ben de moeite waard is om te testen. Goed idee, en dank voor je input 🙂
Groetjes, iT
insAneTunA
July 22, 2013 at 7:11 pm
Thanks Rawbush. I think that you are right about the valves. It would be awesome to have it automated, so that the water flow is regulated by the amount of sunshine, I’m already getting familiar with a possible circuit. But so far I’m still putting bottles together. Soon I will have new videos, still need to do some editing, my hard drive is not so large, and the uploading goes very slow, but it’s looking great. Peace, iT
insAneTunA
July 22, 2013 at 7:22 pm
Great video iT, thanks for putting this together. The only suggestion I have is regulating valves at outputs, this would be used to slow the water down allowing more time for the heat transfer. Great job. Peace Rawbush
Rawbush
July 22, 2013 at 7:56 pm
IK heb weleens gehoord dat er winst te behalen is in verwarmingsapparatuur door een deel van de uitlaat terug te voeden naar de input, zodat de aanvangstemperatuur hoger is, en de output dus ook hoger zou kunnen zijn. Of het echt zo is, heb ik nooit getest, maar misschien maakt het een goed experiment voor je?
Cloxxki
July 22, 2013 at 8:10 pm
ook nog goed bezig! Groet Jeronimo!
wwwjeroenbosnu
July 22, 2013 at 8:50 pm