The warm summer months never last forever. Soon it’s time to look for a way to bring a little extra warmth into the home and this simple solar heater is a great project to do just that. It’s made of metal cans, steel or aluminum, and can produce a surprisingly strong and consistent airflow upwards of 140F.
Even on a heavy snow day you’re looking at somewhere around 75-85F.
Best of all, this simple project requires just a few common parts and many of them can simply be re-purposed from your regular recycling. Watch the project come together in the fully-detailed video on the NEXT PAGE:
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It uses a power source and its going to be worthless at night, and he did a heat measurement out side in the sunlight
Marcine Ellen Reeck: another idea ….but this is not useless at night in the summer as it can have a reverse flow of air –cool in -hot out simple thermo-dynamics
This will not work unless you skip the 6 little holes on bottom and install a second hoe that will serve as a return. Without a return the cold air it pulls in from outside will not let this work properly. Also the hoses going to the room you want to heat need to be insulated.
When I get enuf cans collected up, I’m going to build me one of these.. Anything to cut back on my gas bill…
anyone try this?
I did and it works. Used it to warm up my chicken coop
my brother heats his garage with one like this
friends have tried this and had no luck.
Terrible instructions.. Skipped over too much., never mentioned glass til the end & where do u place this thing? In a window? Smh