Solar powered Chicken water de-iceing
Added 2025-01-09 20:59:02 +0000 UTCHow well will this work? I'll update in a few days when I know.
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i thought the marbles were to distribute the heat from bulb out to bottle (to then go to water) to be better heat conductors than air, and adding weight so bottle will sink
Cull2ArcaHeresy
2025-01-20 10:12:31 +0000 UTCI was going to use sand but I decided that I'd like to be able to see that the light was still working.
CodyDon Reeder
2025-01-20 06:45:52 +0000 UTCSo far it seems to be doing fine. Just had a beautiful day with no clouds and it just managed to melt all the ice.
CodyDon Reeder
2025-01-20 06:44:24 +0000 UTCthen it will also need a electricidal battery. hes hoping it can be its own thermal battery with the marbles. (im thinking he may want to add some black sand to fill the gaps and add the mass.
Adric Menning
2025-01-20 06:42:56 +0000 UTCHow did it end up? Did it work?
Jeremy Sagnol
2025-01-15 11:36:16 +0000 UTCAlmost 100% of the energy is converted to heat. How long till the chickens destroy the wires?
Stephen B. Sullivan
2025-01-10 19:16:19 +0000 UTCreally surprising that small single bulb could make that much heat. very cool
Jay Wyman
2025-01-10 19:12:02 +0000 UTCI have one of those LEDs-in-a-tube type christmas lights, about a 1/2" tube... and I layed it across the side of my walkway over the snow and ice, to illuminate it. It carved a path straight through to the grass underneath in less than a day. It takes a very small amount of heat to keep water from freezing. But what would work even better than a solar panel, at 15% efficiency is... actual sunlight on a black bucket. If you consider the mild difference between solar intensity in the summer vs. winter, adding just one mirror to double the solar intensity on the object should be enough to keep it defrosted. To be visually effective, you could fill a different bucket next to it, and show how quickly it freezes over while the first one stays liquid, since, "a thing not happening" is a video about nothing (visually). Also, for whatever voltage that solar panel is, a simple one or two foot long piece of 18-24g stainless wire would accomplish the same thing without the fancy lightbulb. Stretched longer an on a car battery charger I've made hot-wire foam cutters, but, in this case the solar panels will be functionally just dead shorted and will only produce as much energy as they produce. You could tweak it by using thinner and longer wire, or a kettle element (and who cares if you give it 1/10 the voltage, it'll have 1/100th the power flow, or about 15 watts, about right. Lots of other ways to do this. I like how pretty it is.
MattsAwesomeStuff
2025-01-10 03:12:47 +0000 UTCthermostat + battery so it can kick on at night?
Cull2ArcaHeresy
2025-01-10 02:19:13 +0000 UTCAh yes black-bottle radiation
Liam Hodgson
2025-01-09 22:24:17 +0000 UTCdunno if it will have enough thermal mass to keep from freezing, but it will delay it and should melt it again..
Adric Menning
2025-01-09 21:29:10 +0000 UTC
