Tag: passive heating
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Summer pages
The heat’s starting to hit. We have plenty of tips to help get yourself and your garden through it.
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Solar window heater update
I’ve been fixing the window box heater. It’s been working OK over winter but not to its maximum. I’ll rebuild it over Summer and add a temperature control so that it only comes on when the air temperature in the box is over 20°C. I’ll use thick glass as the cover instead of thin perspex…
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Window box heater
Last year I started fiddling with passive heating and whipped up one of these window box heaters. I found several flaws with my design and have since learned how to improve the efficiency greatly. For this test, I just leaned it on the sill of the kitchen window (the most northerly facing window) in the…
