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SOLAR COLLECTOR sa WATER HEATER -- SOLAR-POWERED xx SOLAR ENERGY xx SOLAR HEATING How to cut your heat bills with add-on, wall-mounted solar panels on the side of your house. How to build a flat plate solar collector that can be hooked up to an existing forced air furnace to supplement heating output. Frame is built from plywood and lined with styrofoam insulation. Aluminum absorber plate is covered with two layers of "Sun-Life" solar collector material. Triangular home-built solar heater built against the wall of a house. Site-built solar collectors. Liquid-flow roof panels double as the roof covering. Est. cost: $13 per sq.ft. Shows how to build collector, plumb the system and install skylights in the collector array. Chart shows the absorbance values of commonly used materials and colors in passive solar collectors. Hybrid trombe wall additions. Passive solar collector provides winter heat and year-round ventilation without masonry storage walls. Tip: How to frame openings and install large areas of insulated glass (fixed windows) for use as passive solar collectors. Warnings on using fluorescent tubes in building solar collectors. Self-taught retrofitting of a 100-year old farmhouse with a solar collector. A do-it-yourself solar heating system. Tips on working with flexible collector material called "SolaRoll". Solar energy flat plate technology. Includes plans for a demonstration collector 24" square. Building and testing solar panels. A look at the Sunstream Model 50A solar collector which you build from a kit. Kit includes 2 collectors, a storage tank with heat exchanger, circulating pump, and other devices. The collectors mount on the roof and can supplement an existing heating system in a room addition or greenhouse. Kit price: $995. How to install a solar window heater that can heat a room. The ISIS Solar Heater, Model 3482, includes a collector panel and an electric blower. A look at how one family in Georgia uses solar energy to partially heat a house and greenhouse. Booklet of plans and instructions for fabrication, installation and use of Roy Dycus' Multi-Purpose Solar Roof Panels can be ordered. How to build a fluorescent tube solar collector. Mother's Heat Grabber, a little solar furnace that fits into a south facing window and circulates warm air into a room whenever the sun shines. Est cost: $38. Build the solar furnace frame for the Curnutt solar furnace. Est. cost: $330. Warm your swine with sunshine. Description of constructing a solar collector on the roof of a barn to provide heat for a farrowing house. Plans for a corrugated solar collector that is capable of generating up to 19,000 BTU's. Est. cost: $105. A look at SolaRoll, a way to build liquid-heating solar collectors that won't freeze. How to construct a tin can solar collector. Do-it-yourself collector comparison. Part 1. Description of 7 different solar collectors which can be built from kits and a comparison of their performance. Do-it-yourself collector comparison. Part 2. Comparison results. Build your own thermosiphoning collector system from copper tubes, thin aluminum sheets, wood and plastic glazing. Do-it-yourself solar space heater. Small unit hangs out any suitable window, uses a small electric fan and provides solar heat for one room. Build from foil-faced insulation board, plastic glazing, and miscellaneous hardware. Est. cost: $75 A solar-heater for a church uses black-painted, cut-in-half aluminum cans in the collector. Building and installing your own solar panels. The collector is made from aluminum storm window frames. How to build an integrated thermosiphon air panel as a solar collector for metal buildings. Tips on building a homemade "factory" solar collector, pieced together from mail-order solar products, to heat water. Est. cost: $200. A mini-manual on modifications and improvements for a mobile home. Includes directions on how to build a solar collector, install a wood stove, add a greenhouse and retrofit the roof with conventional wood frame-and-sheathing cap. A low-cost way to add solar heat to a mobile home or metal outbuilding. Uses an integrated thermosiphon air panel mounted on a metal-sided wall that faces within 25 degrees of south. Est. cost: $100. Two solar collectors built on the outside walls of old houses. The Stark collector covers the entire south wall of a two-story house. The Phelps system can fit on almost any wall space. Includes guidelines for sizing collectors. The see-through solar wall. A look at the design and construction of a "ClearView" hot air solar collector designed into the south wall of a house. Sun tower. A large skylight serves as a solar "window" for an indoor solar collector whose hot air is then pumped throughout the house using conventional metal ducts. Build a 64-square-foot North solar collector. Built from wood, corrugated aluminum and fiberglass glazing. Use to produce heated air. Est. cost: $250. Superior ways to soak up sun. Results of testing high-tech solar absorber coatings. Foolproof collector mounts. Five ways to attach a solar panel to your roof. A double-duty solar air heater. Wooden chimney, built to hide a metal woodstove flue, is used to mount two powerful solar air collectors. How to build a solar collector panel and install it in a homebuilt hot water system. Est. cost: $300. Solar panels for preheating water in the north. A solar panel for hot air heating. Build a solar collector that saves money and looks good. 21 sq.ft. thermosiphoning air panel measures 35"x80". Est. cost: $200. Build a solar controller. Electronic temperature comparator for solar energy systems or attic fans. Turns on pumps when the air or fluid in a solar collector is at a sufficiently high temperature to justify transfer to a storage medium. Est. cost: $35. Build a sun-tracking circuit that will cause small solar panels to follow the sun during the daylight hours. A passive solar collector anyone can build. Lean-to style collector is built against a house. Cool air enters through basement window. Warm air exits through first-floor window. Simple frame is set on concrete block footers. 8 passive solar add-on collectors that will help heat your home. Rooftop mounted, motor-driven focusing collectors follow the sun to provide low-cost heat and hot water for a New Hampshire home. Closed system uses a mixture of water and antifreeze. Heat is then used to warm an exchanger. Average savings have been 200 kwh per month. During summer, the unit heats swimming pool water to 82-degrees. The reflectors are made from aluminum flashing. Adventures in alternative energy. Using sun power for space heating. A Maryland homeowner builds his own solar collectors and uses 14 of them to heat a 30 gallon closed system which is used to preheat a 550 gallon hot-water heating system. Est. cost: $3,000. A look at the efficiency of trickle-down style solar collectors. Includes partial plans for a $4 per sq.ft. trickle-down collector. A single-panel solar collector fits through an existing window. The heat is collected and warm air is exhausted inside the house, while cooler air is circulated through the collector to be warmed. Uses no fans or liquid, just warm air convection. A solar energy collector that can be made for $0.85 per sq.ft. A look at the air-type collector developed by John Loth. Uses Foamglas slabs with V-grooves for the collector's heat-transfer surface. Concentrating solar collectors you can build. A design for a collector tube that is backed by two mirrors to concentrate the solar energy on the tube. A description of a drain-down solar water-heating system that was homebuilt and incorporates a concentrating collector of acrylic tubing that encases copper tubing. Est. cost: $330. Corrugated-plate window collector directly heats the air for one room. The collector measures 4x16-ft. Small fans circulate the air through the collector. It is a simple wooden box, insulated with polystyrene and using discarded aluminum printing plates to collect the sun's heat. Inexpensive plastic film is used instead of glass. Est. cost: $75. Glass tube solar collector. Used fluorescent tubes form an outer collector. Aluminum foil glued to one side of the tube helps focus the sun's heat on an inner glass tube which is filled with an antifreeze mixture. Output from a 40-sq-ft. collector is 44,000 BTU's per day. Est. cost: $$1.30 per sq.ft. A bay window incorporates a solar heat absorber made from decorative perforated aluminum sheets painted black. The unit is used to heat basement air from 50-degrees up to 80-degrees. Protective covers, lined with aluminum foil, cover the windows during the night and help reflect additional sunlight through the windows during the day. A comparison of the effectiveness of commercial solar collector paints. A look at constructing and installing a low-cost, roll-on solar collector made from synthetic rubber extrusions. Four sheets of fiberglass reinforced plastic panels are used to form a solar collector to heat air. Homebuilt concentrating solar collector puts out 120-degree water. Uses a simple bi-metal control to keep collector aimed at the sun. Collector is driven by a power-window motor. Est. cost: $513. Owner-built solar wall. Turn a south exterior wall into a solar collector by covering it with glass, right up to the eave. Simple wall collector consists of a 2x4 outer frame, 3/4" strips and plastic sheeting. Keeps a garage workshop at 60-degrees or higher. Small blower circulates heated air thru the collector. Winning designs in the FRP (fiberglass reinforced plastic) design contest. Includes cabana, solar collector, patio roof, greenhouses, privacy fence, pool cover and truck-bed canopy. Ground-level solar collector features an outer frame made from cement and reinforced with expanded metal mesh. How to get the right slant (angle) for your solar panels. Helpful math tables allow you to build the solar panel supports before you go up on the roof. How to build air-type solar collector panels from etched foam. Est. cost: $1.50 per sq.ft. Low-cost solar-powered air heating system uses aluminum downspouting to heat the air and flexible dryer hose to deliver heated air into the house. Build a mortar-veneered solar collector. Copper tubing in a bed of cement heats water for less cost than using copper plates. Movable solar collector uses a large glass patio door as it's glazing. The absorber plate is ordinary perforated-aluminum soffit panel material. Est. cost: $100. Build this solar tracking system. An electronic servo system swivels a solar collector panel so it follows the sun across the sky. Tips on designing a system to automatically track the sun with a solar collector. A wire-mesh solar collector (thermosiphon-type) heats an inside wall filled with rocks. How to build a 2x6-ft. solar collector assembly and install it on your roof. Also gives information on installing off-the-shelf solar collectors. How to construct a flat-plate liquid-cooled solar collector. Build a liquid-cooled, flat-plate solar collector. Four of these units will supply most of the hot water requirements for the average family. A tin-can solar collector you can build that can be used to heat both air and water. Air-cooled solar collector fastens to the south wall of a house. Built from fiberglass sheeting, corrugated metal, and wood. Produces a 50-degree rise in the temperature of air blown through the collector. "Filon" plastic panel contest winners. (1) Solar collector on porch roof helps heat basement. (2) Outdoor diffusion panels reduce air-conditioner loads from west-facing windows. | |||||||||
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