How to Power a Space Heater ONLY Using Solar Panels
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- How to Power a Space Heater ONLY Using Solar Panels. We purchased four used 400 watt solar panels for $50 each for a total of $200. The voltage potential is around 160 volts DC, but with a space heater connected to it at full blast, the voltage drops to around 120 volts DC. The heater becomes very hot, radiating heat into the house. The outdoor temperature can be way below freezing, but as long as the sun is out, the solar panels generate electricity which powers the space heater and heats up the interior of the house for four hours. Now if the solar panels were installed on a solar tracking system, the same setup can generate six hours of heat for a total of 9000 watts, a 50% increase. That will save at least six hours of your heating bill per day for your home.
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We purchased four used 400 watt solar panels for $50 each for a total of $200. The voltage potential is around 160 volts DC, but with a space heater connected to it at full blast, the voltage drops to around 120 volts DC. The heater becomes very hot, radiating heat into the house. The outdoor temperature can be way below freezing, but as long as the sun is out, the solar panels generate electricity which powers the space heater and heats up the interior of the house for four hours. Now if the solar panels were installed on a solar tracking system, the same setup can generate six hours of heat for a total of 9000 watts, a 50% increase. That will save at least six hours of your heating bill per day for your home.
How do you connect the fan to panels?
400 watt panels for 50 a piece is straight luck
@@solfreshsolcleanDid You Even Look I Can Find Tons Of Used Solar Panels With Basically The Same Efficiency As New
Big Companies Sell The Old Ones For Measly Percentage Gains And Tax Reductions
$50 For 400 Watt Panels Are Everywhere
I never knew you could run an oil filled heater on DC. This is brilliant. Thank you for this info. I will definitely put this knowledge to use.
If you already have a high efficiency minisplit heat pump, adding an inverter and a few inexpensive golf cart batteries can provide over 4 times the Btus of heat for every watt consumed compared to electrical resistance heating. It can provide virtually free cooling in the summer too.
Awesome 😁👍Where did you find used panels?
Buy them off used listings! After big projects they have a lot left over most of the time I got mine for 100$ each and they are 315watts each
Maybe use them to heat sand so it will last while the sun is down.
add salt to the sand for heat retention....add copper or aluminum sheet to sit in top of it
??? How are you plugging in A.C. heaters with 2 prong male plug ends into solar panels they most likely have positive and negative MC4 connections????
haha fantastic.. heres one I had not seen done yet for you... radient heater could either be floor heating or mabey a motorrcycle radiator powered with parts from a from coffee pot.. just need to figure out a novel way to source a pump and of couse some soloor panels :) just being silly
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They have a mini split that works direct connect solar. I think it was 1200 watt. UA-cam it.
I know that it might be a strange request, but would you be interested in looking over an idea that I have, as it might be now soon that I can actually get round to doing it.
As youtube doesn't like links, I have a video on youtube called
Solar to electricity 24/7 in Your back garden
Looking forward to learning your opinion 🙂
Daniel r u alive?
During the winter is when you need heat. And...The sun is low in the sky during the winter so you don't get direct sunlight. That means the solar panels will only produce about one-third of what they're rated at during the winter. However, if you live in the southern part of the country, solar panels produce better during the winter but still not full rated capacity. Used panels rarely if ever produce full rated capacity. Either way, you're still going to need many more panels than what you are suggesting in the video. Which makes this idea much more expensive and far less attractive.
Yep, if all you need is heat, placing a table covered in aluminum foil under a south facing window, so it reflects more light into your room will give you added light and heat naturally from the sun for a low-tech/low-cost approach to solar heating. Adding Reflectix to the inside of northern facing windows will help you retain that heat too, by reflecting infra-red heat back into the home. I use Reflectix inside the windshield of my motorhome and it works great in both summer and winter, requiring less heating and cooling to keep it comfy inside.
@@SuperSushidog no cold enough climate if you need cooling!!!
@@philmenard3042 I'm retired FT in a motorhome. Before retiring I lived in New Orleans, but that gets a little cold for my blood in the winter, so I'm wintering over near Brownsville TX, right on the MX border. It cooled off to the mid 80's today from the low 90's yesterday - just like I like it. I haven't run my furnace all winter. The AC, that's another story. 🥶
Outdoorzee In fact, to obtain an optimal current of the panels it is necessary to install them more, but this thing is known..
Good ideas but we haven’t had enough sun this winter to run anything. I have 4 solar arrays set up and can’t even run my 15 cubit ft freezer this winter.
You should look into magnetic neutralization there getting 2 1/2 times out put verses input ..it's a wheel with large neos on the top edges disks then near the center about two inches from the center a set of much smaller neos that line up with the rim neos .the rims are generator ..motor neos and the center ones are the neutralization ones on the two outer plates are the coils for the rim and adjustable small neos for the center neos you adjust for max out put .it removes the lock up and more .
I would utilize the heat generated on the back of the solar cells and redirect it to the place that is needed to heat. This heat build up from the conversion depletes the solar cells efficiency over time and the cooler the cells the better the life and conversion co efficiency. No need to use huge amounts of wasted power rather be more efficient where it needs it.