Solar Air Conditioning - An Unexpected Use of Solar Energy
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How You Can Cool Your Home With The Sun
When you generate electricity using solar panels, you learn how to conserve all the energy you can. Providing about 800 watts per hour our solar electric system can not power a compressor type air conditioner. We were limited to using fans to keep cool in the summer. When we lived in another area in California, we used an evaporative cooler to keep our home comfortable in the summer. It worked well and used 1/3 to 1/4 the energy of a forced air AC. Using an evaporative type cooler seemed a logical choice for us since we live in a dry climate. We Used An Existing Evaporative Cooler
We converted an existing evaporative cooler that we purchased locally to operate using power provided by a 12 volt DC solar electric panel. We added an automobile radiator fan and a 12 volt bilge pump to the cooler and power it directly with the panel. We mounted the panel on a home made tracker which extends the time that the cooler can operate. Solar Air Conditioning - Build Your Own Solar Cooler
Build A Solar Air Conditioner
We built a solar evaporative cooler to keep our home cool in the summer. You can use our plans and do the same.Watch our solar cooling video
Other Uses For Solar Energy - Passive Solar
We live in a passive solar home.
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- We live in an all solar home. We would like to show you what it is like living in a passive solar home.
- Solar Tracking
- We live in an all solar home. We made a small solar tracker for a solar panel that controls our solar evaporative cooler.
- Solar Heating - Use Solar Energy To Heat Water
- We heat our water with solar panels that are mounted on our roof.
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