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:
Obviously the sunny day comments haven’t been outside in a northern state wearing sungl$#%&!@*es to see while unburying their car in sub-zero temps.
Your drill was running backwards that’s why you couldn’t drill the first hole.
So you showed us how to build a box. ?? How are the cans etc. configured?
This sounds awesome!!!
Awesome when you are testing it when it is 80 degrees outside. When it is zero outside, I don’t think the air is going to be 140, maybe 45 or 50.
I test out alot of these “DYI” projects to greater or lesser results. I can however say with this one ..well I currently have one approx same dimensions (cans) as the one pictured here attached to my laying (chickens) house and have seen it hit temps inside the “furnace” of in excess of 150 degrees F
I actually originally used gorrila glue to seal my gl$#%&!@* cover but had to replace with high temp caulking when the glue turned to sludge from the heat
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How much heat do you suppose it would generate on a 20F degree day?
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