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MTD frame Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 566 seconds The new MTD frame is made from steel stud slots. As much as I like to work with wood steel stud slots have the advantage of having a built in support flange that holds the insulation as well as the Trickle Down Mat. Steel stud slots are galvanized so they do not rust. They are light, easy to work with and inexpensive... ideal for DIY solar collector projects. |
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MTD Finish Trim Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 573 seconds MTD collector performance is important, but the appearance of a solar application is also a concern because it has high visibality for both you and your neighbors. The finish trim can make it |
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CrossSupport.wmv Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 599 seconds Horizontal cross supports are used to support the glazing material inside conventional solar collectors. Cross supports may also be used to support the inner Mylar film inside Modified Trickle Down Collectors. |
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MTD Trickle Down Mat Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 603 seconds The Trickle Down Mat is the heart and soul of the Modified Trickle Down collector. The frame is important as is the Trickle Down Distributor and the Gutter, but without a TDM to disperse and carry the water this type of collector would be impossible. Ther are many ways to build a TDM. This is one method. With an MTD kit a TDM takes 10 minuits to assemble, |
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MTD Insulation Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 390 seconds Most flat plate collectors use a polyisocyanurate material to lessen heat loss from the bottom of the collector. MTD collectors also use this tuff insulation for the back of the collector. Remember, a person tooling down your road at 70 MPH will not see the back of your collector. It's what's up front that counts. |
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MTD Solar Collector kit Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 600 seconds At last a solar collector kit that's more than easy to ship and easy to assemble and easy to install... It's an educational kit that facilitates MTD assembly and also provides the hands on experience needed to assemble future kits from commonly available materials. |
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An Iincvenient Sun Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 444 seconds The Sun is offen thought of as an inconvient truth. On a hot summer day when sunlight is abundant many people complain that it's too much,,, AND in the winter when there is never enough sun people complain that sunlight is not a convient energy supply... The real truth is that sunlight is our most valuable energy resource. Unfortunately how we don't always make good use of what we have. |
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MTD Gutter Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 596 seconds The Modified Trickle Down solar collector has three major components: They are the Trickle Down Distributer, the Trickle Down Mat and the Trickle Down Gutter. This video is how to make a 10' long gutter from a 2" PVC pipe. The gutter not only makes MTD a viable posibility but it also facilitates the connection to the storage tank. |
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Differential Controller Adjustment Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 527 seconds Adjusting a differential controller to find the right balance between energy harvest and energy consumption can sometimes be a little tricky so aftear years of research I finally developed a controller thats easy to assemble, easy to install and easy to adjust |
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Differential Controller Assembly Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 597 seconds Learn how a differential controller can be built with some commonly available materials. There are many ways to harvest the sun's heat and there are also many ways to monitor collector and storage temperatures, but "doing more with less" is always the best alternative.. |
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Piggyback Relay for Differential Controller Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 592 seconds A remote relay may be controlled with a differential controller to regulate a pump to collect solar heated water. This allows the user to place the controller in the living quarters far away from the pump and the heat storage tank, The piggyback relay simplifies the power and sensor connections in a stable and safe environment. |
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Differential Controller + bar graph indicator. Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 436 seconds This is a basic differential controller that allows the user to adjust the differential and also have some idea of the temperatures inside both the solar collector and storage tank. |
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Heiliger's Differential Controller Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 424 seconds This video is about bench test for Richard Heiliger's remarkable differential controller that's uset to collect solar heat and store that heat. It may be used to control either an AC pump or a DC pump. richard only made 24 of them and 2 have already been sold and the advertising has just barely started. get one fast while they last. |
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Fossil Freedom Tubes.wmv Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 527 seconds Evacuated tubes are becomming very popular so I thought it would be good to check them out and perhaps do a little R and D... Nick Nickerson from Virginia was nice enough to indulge my fantacy and with a little help from Patric Ward and Steve Bogas.the tubes were obtained and transported from Virginia to Long Island. |
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PV Controller Introduction Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 600 seconds The PV Controller is a differential controller specially designed to work in harmony with PV panels. Most Differential controllers require a battery back up system to stabalize the voltage swings of a PV power supply in dim light, but this controller hangs in there during the full range of voltage transitions. |
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Controller with Differential Indicaror Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 570 seconds In addition to the normal function of extracting head from solar collectors, this little controller has the ability to indicate the temperature differance between probes by increasing the lumonisity of a green lamp. |
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Solar Heat Controller Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 448 seconds This is a multifunction programable solar heat controller that may be used as a differential controller or as a heat loop controller. This video demonstatrates the way the controller may be programmed to extract heat from a heat storage vault without exceeding the programed limits of the heat storage chamber or the household heating requirements |
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Controllers and Indicators Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 585 seconds I'm not realying trying to control the Sun. i just want people to make better use of the sun's energy. Differential controllers automate the process of heat collection and heat storage. I'd just like everyone to get their fair share od sunshine. |
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Controller_Probes.wmv Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 598 seconds Collectors collect solar hea.t Storage vaults store solar heat and differential controllers controle the flow of solar heated water from collector to storage and probes control the controller. There are many kinds of controllers available. This video is about a controller than may be use with an AC ror DC pump and may also be used to aproximate the temperature in collector or storage vault. |
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Three Temperature Probes Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 568 seconds Three Temperature Probes was designed to illustrate how the most common temperature probes may be made from temperature sensors and other materials. The video also illustrates how the thermocouple, thermistor and calibrated sensor may be tested. |
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The Value of Sunlight Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 600 seconds http://www.jc-solarh omes.com We often take for granted the things in life that are most precious such as water and sunlight. The transition from an oil based economy to a solar energy based economy will only become a reality if we make it so. |
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Walk on Sunshine Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 355 seconds Fran Diamond and the Hits is a Long Island based Wedding band that brings a little sunshine into an otherwise dreary time of year. This video was made at a Halloween Party in the Savana club. Admission was FREE if you had a costume. Check out my wild and crazy wife in the Steve Nicks costume dancing on the barroom band platform. as long as she kept off the drinking bar I was happy. |
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Differential Controller Kit Posted by: jcanivan
Video duration: 366 seconds A diferential controller may be assembled from a simple kit. It works by sensing a diference in temperature between collector and storage. The differential on and differential off temperature may be adjusted. |
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