Pop Can Heater - Coop -Winter sun solar heater

[CKMore]

Have you heard of a Pop Can Heater. I am thinking of making one for my coop. It is solar heat that would heat up during the day. I have some old windows that I'm planning on using.
You can youtube how a Pop Can Heater works.

I've also seen where they make the solar heater out of metal pipe, metal gutters or metal screens. They also heat water using metal pipe water lines inside the solar heater. So you can youtube those ideas as well.

 

[CKMore]

Here is the screen model

 

[CKMore]

Hot water solar heater

 

[The Moonshiner]

I don't worry about heat in our coops and not sure exactly what your plan is but as for the can version that's a ton of work getting the cans drilled and connected etc. Id go more with a pipe version. A lot stronger and less work.
I know even a regular garden hose with water in it in the sun will get crazy hot.

 

[LadyBehir]

Well, it is 8* here now so I am trying to figure out a way to de-ice my girls' water. I do have one heated bowl but I'd like a solar powered way to run a de-icer passively. Trying to figure out how to on the cheap. Soda cans or black hose or some other way.

 

[Percheron chick]

Well, it is 8* here now so I am trying to figure out a way to de-ice my girls' water. I do have one heated bowl but I'd like a solar powered way to run a de-icer passively. Trying to figure out how to on the cheap. Soda cans or black hose or some other way.

If it's down to 8*, any water heating system will freeze once the sun goes down. All of those ideas would fail because they can't easily be drained.

 

[jthornton]

If it's down to 8*, any water heating system will freeze once the sun goes down. All of those ideas would fail because they can't easily be drained.

Solar water heating systems that use an antifreeze solution (propylene glycol or ethylene glycol) as a heat-transfer fluid have effective freeze protection as long as the proper antifreeze concentration is maintained.

JT

 

[Percheron chick]

These examples just run water.

 

[jthornton]

These examples just run water.

Water only solar heaters have to have an automatic drain when the temperature gets below 42°F and be fully drained. I doubt the soda/beer can heater is much more than a time sink. Solar heaters have circulation pumps and run under pressure. PuTube should have a way to rate dumb videos.

JT

 

[Fairview01]

Cinder block, light inside cinder block hole, light covered with a large can to protect from condensation, plug into a wall socket via extension cord. Set water fount on top of cinder block over the light.

Get fancy and insulate around the light with the blue insulation board and plug into a t-stat. Quick cheap and easy.