rin67630
Solar Enthusiast
The idea may sound crazy, but I think, it is very serious: Using solar panels to occasionally heat a home / tinkering barn.
It is known, that solar cells are basically LEDs. These LEDs emit light in the infrared spectrum when provided with enough forward current.
Infrared radiants are efficent to give a warmth feeling in cold rooms used only occasionally.
I believe solar panels should emit more Infrared than just heating resistors at the same energy, since a good portion of the infrared emission is electronically generated and not inefficiently from black matter radiation.
It is already possible to de-snow panels by feeding current into the panels, so heating with panels is already done.
Now solar panels are so damn cheap that a 400W panel is actually cheaper than an infrared heater of the same size.
What about using them as home heaters?
Let us start the discussion...
It is known, that solar cells are basically LEDs. These LEDs emit light in the infrared spectrum when provided with enough forward current.
Infrared radiants are efficent to give a warmth feeling in cold rooms used only occasionally.
I believe solar panels should emit more Infrared than just heating resistors at the same energy, since a good portion of the infrared emission is electronically generated and not inefficiently from black matter radiation.
It is already possible to de-snow panels by feeding current into the panels, so heating with panels is already done.
Now solar panels are so damn cheap that a 400W panel is actually cheaper than an infrared heater of the same size.
What about using them as home heaters?
Let us start the discussion...