I wish I had your energy! My health is not very good, so I often have ideas that I would like to build and can not. I've found so many of the ideas I would like to try in your channel! Thank you so much. It's very nice to see them in the real world instead of just in my head. I'm about to move into a new home where I will have enough land to install a ground based solar panel system. I am thinking of getting some cheap thin plywood and covering it in adhesive mirror film (95% reflectivity and only about $1usd per square meter) and adding these in front of the solar panels during the winter to increase output. I don't think I will add them during hotter months since the extra heat will shorten the lifespan of the panels. But a 100 watt panel during our winter is only going to put out around 30 watts, so bumping it up to maybe 50 watts while it's cold outside shouldnt be an issue and will help me build a system that is not as big and very oversized during the summer when we get more power and need less. The angle of the sun during Nov, Dec and Jan is 27/20/27 degrees. So I am thinking that I will build a platform at 23.5 degrees, which would make it almost a 90 degree angle from the solar panels and get them almost twice as much irrandience. The mirror film lasts about 3 or 4 years under our conditions, so very cost effective way to effectively make the system almost twice as big during winter. Hopefully I can get my brother to help me install all this. :)
Very good video Sergiy. I suggest placing the solar heating blanket horizontal with a clear glass cover and then mount the mirror vertically ... slanted forward at the top so that all reflected light covers the entire blanket all day. Any snow that falls will be quickly melted by the suns reflected solar heat. Keep up the good work.
Thermal solar often suffers from too little energy in the winter, and too much in the summer. Hence, optimizing both the angle of the panels, as well as the angle of any reflecting surfaces, should be done for when the sun is lowest. There should be no need to adjust the panels or reflectors after this. Unless you have a substantial heat storage capacity, you most often WANT the panels to give LESS in the summer: The production is much higher, with more sunny days AND more daylight, and that combined with little or not heating requirement ... the mirrors adjusted for winter solar azimuth angles will reduce the chance of overheating in the summer.
Is it possible to use a isolation matt It would be round with a cut to the middle so you can fold it together and get a right angle and because of Overlayed matt you can use it in winter.
I wish I had your energy! My health is not very good, so I often have ideas that I would like to build and can not. I've found so many of the ideas I would like to try in your channel! Thank you so much. It's very nice to see them in the real world instead of just in my head.
I'm about to move into a new home where I will have enough land to install a ground based solar panel system. I am thinking of getting some cheap thin plywood and covering it in adhesive mirror film (95% reflectivity and only about $1usd per square meter) and adding these in front of the solar panels during the winter to increase output. I don't think I will add them during hotter months since the extra heat will shorten the lifespan of the panels. But a 100 watt panel during our winter is only going to put out around 30 watts, so bumping it up to maybe 50 watts while it's cold outside shouldnt be an issue and will help me build a system that is not as big and very oversized during the summer when we get more power and need less.
The angle of the sun during Nov, Dec and Jan is 27/20/27 degrees. So I am thinking that I will build a platform at 23.5 degrees, which would make it almost a 90 degree angle from the solar panels and get them almost twice as much irrandience.
The mirror film lasts about 3 or 4 years under our conditions, so very cost effective way to effectively make the system almost twice as big during winter.
Hopefully I can get my brother to help me install all this. :)
nice job I just added a reflector to my solar heater, and it works well and will be making a second one soon.
Very good video Sergiy. I suggest placing the solar heating blanket horizontal with a clear glass cover and then mount the mirror vertically ... slanted forward at the top so that all reflected light covers the entire blanket all day. Any snow that falls will be quickly melted by the suns reflected solar heat. Keep up the good work.
Thermal solar often suffers from too little energy in the winter, and too much in the summer. Hence, optimizing both the angle of the panels, as well as the angle of any reflecting surfaces, should be done for when the sun is lowest. There should be no need to adjust the panels or reflectors after this. Unless you have a substantial heat storage capacity, you most often WANT the panels to give LESS in the summer: The production is much higher, with more sunny days AND more daylight, and that combined with little or not heating requirement ... the mirrors adjusted for winter solar azimuth angles will reduce the chance of overheating in the summer.
You are the best
Can you show your green house, That Dome built next to heater.
Interesting.
Good job..👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Is it possible to use a isolation matt
It would be round with a cut to the middle so you can fold it together and get a right angle and because of Overlayed matt you can use it in winter.
or an infrared panel in front of it
Стекло надо поставить авто клиенка не прозрачная и на себя берет много температуры
Це може бути вам корисним.