Pool DIY Solar Heater - Improving with Insulation Foam - 1402
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- I really love my small little tiny pool,, but I am not that kind of a viking,, I want warm-ish water to get in it. Therefore I have been trying to build a solar water heater, and I am continuing to improving on it. In this video I am isolating the back of it. This is to avoid cold air blowing through it, cooling the pipes down. and to catch a bit more of the solar heat..
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You need a t-shirt: "Awesome" on the front and perhaps "ugly side" on the back 😉
Or "Awesome" on the front and "Awkward" on the back :-)
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Man you are close! 27 ° C is perfect!
Full greenhouse is essential. since tubing has circular cross section you could just lay clear sheet on top with limited conductive heat loss , but even better to give little more air gap. seal the sides up good and silicone in the back foam - whole thing air tight as possible.
re: pump i say bite the bullet and buy another small solar panel (at a fair price this time!) and couple it with the existing small panel.
Thanx,, another solar panel is on the way 🤨
@@MyPlayHouse 👍 👍look fwd to next update- i've been following the plunge pool + heater since the start!
Place it in the box with the glass window. It will work.
I was hoping plastic,, not as heavy 😳
@@MyPlayHouse The main problem is the wind, and it is not only what we see, but normal convention. Air goes from button to the top and cools your construction in "natural way" You need isolation from environment, put it in the box :)
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U bet U.
The foam, you should of inserted them the other way, you have the reflective / smooth side facing the sun, you would be better having the rough and none reflective side facing the sun.
I think the other side would be able to collect water/dirt,, etc
If (when) the foam starts breaking down in the sun, you can probably protect it quite well with just a bit of black spray paint.
Probably,, most of it is covered by the black hose though, but for sure it’s gonna get brittle in the sun.
50W, more like 8W if you're lucky. I fell for the same scam (but had a suspicion about it's claims of efficiency before I hit check out.)
It is somewhere between 10 and 20w :-/ very disappointing.
@@MyPlayHouse I bought an 80W and it hit ~10W. Originally bought a 50W and it only hit 6-7W. Both I claimed back, thankfully I had bright sunny cloudless weather to send in the evidence for the claim.
I bought a new 50w panel,, that one might just be right.
Fully enclose the solar heater, with the internal being coloured either black reflective. The sides need to be slightly taller so to create an air gap above/in-front of the the pipe loop the front which faces the sun needs to be a transparent polycarbonate cover. This will make a mini greenhouse with the solar heat loop inside this will greatly improve the heat output.
😂 made the comment before i got to the part of the video, where you say the same thing.
Even better with a window that has 1way IR filter which most in the nordics have had, unless nowdays windows start having full IR blocking to keep the summer heat out.
Thank you,, yes there is room for improvement.
First!....HeHEHE! Have a great day!
You are awesome 👏 sorry I am on my phone 📱
ye that solar pannel looks more like 20 watts
Not sure if it’s even that 🤨
You could make a circuit using a 555 and LDR.
You would only want it to turn on when the LDR gets enough light.
The 555 would control the pump, so that it's not pushing all the water through and stops to give it some time to heat up.
You should also enclose it which would heat the air up inside making the performance better.
I thought of doing one where the water coil is in the frame of a solar panel as they get hot, so doing two jobs. And it's all framed for you as a single unit, panel pumps and heating at the same time.
Interestingly, would having solar to electrical heating work better?
Humm,, or just a timer, that turns on the pump for 30 seconds and off for 30 seconds. That would probably also solve all my problems, if I could store the power that the solar panel produces, while the pump is not running. To make it start up again.
@@MyPlayHouse but how would you run the timer?
The LDR detects the light, using a resistor you can use that to set the level it will switch.
You should find that a few caps will do the job. Hunt down some binned microwaves and pull it out. Or just some off of old power supplies..
10:36 the pump the right way around would help hehe
nvm: by the magic of editing its suddenly fixed
Edit: but i was always thinking something similar when i were still living with my parents, could i use the pool for the watercooling of my pc? but the pips should be realy long
Yes I did find my mistake,, I did also film fixing my mistake calling myself an idiot etc. But left it out, as I could just move on to it working.. But points for you! that was well spotted!! :-)
I noticed that also! That little pump has a hard time pushing water up that high, maybe lower the rig.
@@darrenvail8726 its only a problem if the water dont comes down again, like that its a closed loop, so no problem once that water gets around