Tracking Parabolic Concentrator Solar Hot Tub Heater v2
Solar powered water heater that provides all the heat for a hot tub. Parabolic trough concentrating collectors. Solar tracker for the concentrators uses Arduino controller. Solar PV and batteries…
12 Responses to Tracking Parabolic Concentrator Solar Hot Tub Heater v2
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Luis Rosado
March 15, 2015 at 4:26 am
The solar sensor is a bad idea, something can damage or obstruct light, is
better a mechanic sistem who turn a cicle every 24 hours.
AnimeHyperDimention
March 15, 2015 at 4:50 am
have you shared the code you wrote for the unit?
Randy Desnoyers
March 15, 2015 at 5:32 am
Hi Bruce can you tell me your email to contact you, please?
Victor Saucedo
March 15, 2015 at 6:18 am
How do You make the programa that rout your sistem, i would líke that You
help my whit the programa.
Desde Colombia.
JULIO RICARDO
March 15, 2015 at 6:39 am
Martin Lorton
March 15, 2015 at 7:21 am
Updated with new gizmos
Bruce Snyder
March 15, 2015 at 7:24 am
I don’t believe they give patents to robots.
Bruce Snyder
March 15, 2015 at 8:12 am
Very cool… You’re way too smart for your own good. I wonder it you just
used additional collecting tubes with maybe one flat mirror might collect
similar BTU’s but make the system far less complicated. Or even just a
large black hose absorbing area. It looks to me you have a very high
maintenance and temperamental system. Very cool and high tech, but overly
sophisticated.
the43k
March 15, 2015 at 9:03 am
Some Fun!!! When do you get your patent?
Phyllis Atkinson
March 15, 2015 at 9:04 am
That is very narrow minded of them!
Phyllis Atkinson
March 15, 2015 at 9:43 am
if you notice adjacent to the right is a passive flat collector that I
tested before making the concentrator type collectors. It works ok, and of
course you don’t have to move the collector to follow the sun. That’s good
because that sucka is heavy when filled with water, unlike the
concentrator. The big problems I had with the “lots of tubing” approach was
keeping it from filling up with crud and leaking, and also it acts like a
radiator when there’s no sun, sucking heat out.
Bruce Snyder
March 15, 2015 at 10:38 am