I love your mind and your easy, open source ways! 💛

The optional detailing is mandatory. It looked especially cool with the orange/black speckle look at 02:06. Great project, as always, thank you for sharing, much appreciated 👍🏻

@desertsun02

8 ай бұрын

hi and thank you! thanks for letting me know your thoughts on the detailing. the abstract 'speckle look' is the final version. i thought it looked pretty cool that way too so i left it. i got that effect using a wooden toothpick of all things. no paint brush used.

@paulduggan2

8 ай бұрын

@@desertsun02 Wooden toothpick? Haha, an insider trade secret right there. I won’t tell anyone 🤫 😆 👍🏻

I get very little direct sun here in winter because of pine trees to my south. I had wanted to build some sort of direct solar panel powered DC heater for my camper or a sand battery type device to store the heat. I`ve noticed that my 600w bucket water heater heats up my bathroom in winter by the time the water is hot enough to bathe. My emergency heat plan for winter storms right now is an electric blanket and 200w Lasko mini space heater and my various solar batteries. I can`t depend on any other fuel source because I have no transportation and can`t afford fuel on SSI disability. I did check at the only store within miles and a 4 gallon tank of propane is 22 bucks. But right now I can`t afford a heater, hoses, filters, etc. And there`s very little natural firewood nearby...I counted two large oaks and three small ones in the area here that I can gather dead limbs from. I got the only gas generator I could afford three years ago and it burns five gallons of gas a day and that costs a lot extra for the 2-stroke oil...way more than propane. So I`ve never used it. If I can rewire my solar setup for my 300ah Ampere Time battery and get a whole lot more solar panels to soak up the 2 hours of direct sunlight I get I might have a chance to have power I can make use of. But the panels will have to be larger than the 100/200w 12v ones I use. Can`t put those in series here in winter because the sun hits a very small area. I bought my solar batteries thinking I would be on another lot with plenty of sun.

@paulsansonetti7410

8 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that Consider getting a Zippo hand warmer,25c of fuel gets you like 12 hours of 140 degree heat Cheap HW bottles are great Also Fortress clothing makes the best baselayers in the world If you Google the PALS system of clothing, you can make your own amazingly warm clothes /blankets /sleeping bags out of open cell polyurethane Best of luck Be safe and be well

@paulsansonetti7410

8 ай бұрын

Consider getting an electric kettle for 20$ to heat up water for hot water bottles as well

Seems as though you could do something similar with an Aluminum radiator filled with glycol and a 12 volt fan. Excellent description and build, thank you

Great Job with that Project. Please keep up the good work ! ! One potential area of improvement for many of your projects is to measure the sound with a meter and buy a fan that is quieter even if it costs more money.

@desertsun02

8 ай бұрын

hi there. just a quick note on the fans. the fans i use in my projects are all pretty quiet and just sound like regular fans. the fan in this project is no exception. *the reason they sometimes sound louder than they are is 100% due to my video camera. the camera has its dual recording microphones placed (or built-in) directly on the front of the camera (under the lens) and because of that the camera picks up the sound of the motor as if you're putting your ear up to it. in reality though, the fan just sounds like a regular small fan. it's got a 'smooth relaxing sound and sounds the same as the fans they use in small store-bought heaters. (if I'm more than 3 feet away from it i can't even tell if it's on or not).

I like the wood

Very good video and ideas, thanks for sharing, God bless !

@desertsun02

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! You too!

this actually works ! But its a very very small amount of heat...you can maybe warm your hands when on a desk...im working on something similar but bigger to heat a room

@desertsun02

7 ай бұрын

hi. yes, it works good. keeps me nice and warm while sitting at the computer desk. my next video is of a much larger (20 amp) heater. it's also 12v and runs off grid. that one is more of a room heater. video will be out in a couple of weeks.

@ynnaangel5824

7 ай бұрын

@desertsun02 i am subscribed ! Because of you i started this as well, i am doing a system over 550 w, with a 300w heating unit ! I will let you know how it goes...thanks for giving me a really nice hobby !

Any idea how this compares to heat pump efficiencies? I’m thinking of a portable version and how it would compare to a vehicle’s heater (tesla uses a heat pump, others do not). Your solution seems simpler but need to know how it compares from efficiency perspective.

Could i use a box fan and attach many heating elements to make it a heater for an indoor sauna room. Room is 4×4

You did a video of one of these 4 years ago with a pc cooling fan. Does this fan work better?

@desertsun02

6 ай бұрын

this particular fan is a 'higher end' fan. seems to match up almost perfectly with the element. you can use a standard computer case fan though.

@randall1959

6 ай бұрын

@@desertsun02 I ordered one of those heating elements off eBay that had a computer fan attached to it but it didn't put out very much air. I ordered the 40 mm fan hoping maybe it would put out more air

What size room would this heater warm up?

@desertsun02

8 ай бұрын

hi. it's more of a personal space heater vs. a full room heater. watch for my next video for a room heater. it's the biggest heater i've made. video will be out mid.november 🙂👍

@ynnaangel5824

8 ай бұрын

​@desertsun02 im building one too ! Im awaiting to see your room heater !

How many DC Amperes of coil?

@desertsun02

5 ай бұрын

hi. unit draws about 6 amps

Could you make toast with it? Not a lot of 12vdc toasters out there...

@desertsun02

3 ай бұрын

that would be an interesting experiment. it might not get hot enough to toast the bread.