Solar Electric Air Heater! (100W 12V) - 100W Solar Panel runs it! - PV space heating!! Ez DIY
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00:00so before we hook it up take note of how this thing is made. it's actually two things. it
00:21comes with a fan screwed on the back so it's the fan and on the front the heating element. so it'll
00:25have the two sets of wires. these are for the heating element which I'll put to the 100 watt
00:29panel and these are the thinner wires that just go to the fan so we'll use a smaller panel for
00:34that. if you want you can just put them all to the same panel but just for clarity to kind of
00:38detail it out I'm using two panels. check those temps out. up to 362. it's a hundred watt 12
00:52volter so you can put it straight to a solar panel. it's got a little fan attached on the
00:57back and it just cranks out the heat. now let's put the fan back on and see what we got. so again
01:07the fan hook up right there to the five water and the heater part to the hundred water
01:27all right we're up to 101. that's after a couple minutes. here's a shot of it just
01:41after like five minutes. now we're up to 116.5 46.8 Celsius
01:53that's after maybe 10 minutes
01:57you can feel that from two and three feet away. so perfect for a desk fan
02:11don't be fooled by its small size. this thing really puts out a lot of heat. it's pushing
02:19close to 400 now. there's 370. 373. I have a feeling I might go to 400 even 500 if I just
02:30leave the fan off but I don't want to burn it out so cranking away. jumps around quite a bit but
02:42that is super super hot. that is so hot it is unbelievable how hot that is. this thing works
02:55unbelievably good. I'm super happy with this. it was only 10 bucks on Amazon. you might notice it
03:07sometimes sounds like hurricane force winds. that's just because I'm using a lavalier mic
03:11and the mic on right on the front of the camera. when it's really loud I'm using the mic on the
03:17front of the camera so it's like having your ear right up to it. but this is what it sounds
03:21like normally just about like this to your ear. so we got the solar panel connection and the input
03:31wires. those three are for the heater and the thin one in the back is for the fan. that's just
03:37a one or two watt fan. the heater takes the 98 99 watts. okay here's how I'm gonna be using it.
03:47right at the desk down to the solar panel wire and out the door. here's a quick tensile test.
03:59all right so just to wrap it up let's take some final temp measurements. so we started
04:07this about 7 a.m. it's just after 10 now so three hours. staying pretty consistent. it
04:12should be 110 or so Fahrenheit. yep still right about there. 43 Celsius give or take.
04:22so that's working great.
04:33one last thing I got to mention. don't use two panels for this. hook both sets to one panel.
04:39the reason for that is that the heating element and the fan believe it or not communicate with
04:43each other. I had read that but didn't believe it but now that I'm using one panel I can tell
04:46the temps are totally consistent now and the fan will go up and down depending on the temperature
04:51of the heating element. in other words it'll run a little slower if the element is a little
04:56bit cooler and faster if it's hotter. so you get generally the same output temps all the time. with
05:03the two panels it was like as you recall anywhere from the 90s up to like 150 and even 170 I think
05:08when it was running. so this is perfect and by the way 110 that's like low furnace temps so that's
05:15perfect for being like two two and a half feet away. feels just right.