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:
abnormalw says:
“no mention of how the cans are connected?”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/diy-metal-can-solar-heater/comment-page-7/#comment-837350
no mention of how the cans are connected?
Gerry O’Neal, we could do this
Couple problems to address. 1. What about the outside temp working against the box. 2. Insulating the hose going into the house. This is the temp in the summer, box won’t do so well in the cold of the winter; box (wood) will be frozen cooling the inside temp of the box.
What I wanted to see he didn’t show or explain and that is how he powered the little fan that he used. It looks like the ones that cool your computer, but how did he get power to it? I assume he plugs it into a standard 120V outlet.
They are 12 volt DC. You hook it up to an ac/dc converter. Some of them are two speed, also.
Hot glue gun them together
Gregory Thomas, I feel for you there. I lived in Pittsburgh for 38 years. It is the most depressing place ever. I live in Florida now and did not know how much different life is when you can see the Sun on a daily basis. One of those would work really well here in Northern Florida because we have low in the 40’s, sometimes 30’s and every once in a long while 20’s. But the sun shines all the time.
Anthony Hospedales River Cj Hospedales Jamey Fields
Chuck Halstead
Gary Cochran. Let’s build a few.