Battery-Driven Tanis

On Jan 31, 6:41 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
Sounds like a perfect application for one of those annoying little
Honda generators that we always seem to get stuck next to when
camping...?

Annoying and expensive! The Honda's go for around $600 and the
Coleman's about $450. There's a DuroPower line that runs just north of
$100 but that price makes me take a step back.

Marco

Annoying and expensive! The Honda's go for around $600 and the
Coleman's about $450.

True, but you'd have something that would be truly useful in other
applications all year long. (Like a power outage?) Not sure what
else you could do with a solar-powered Tanis heater contraption...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Winter means thick overcast, how well will your solar panels
work in the cold with dark overcast and short days?


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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| Annoying and expensive! The Honda's go for around $600
and the
| Coleman's about $450.
|
| True, but you'd have something that would be truly useful
in other
| applications all year long. (Like a power outage?) Not
sure what
| else you could do with a solar-powered Tanis heater
contraption...
|
| ;-)
| --
| Jay Honeck
| Iowa City, IA
| Pathfinder N56993
| www.AlexisParkInn.com
| "Your Aviation Destination"
|

Winter means thick overcast, how well will your solar panels
work in the cold with dark overcast and short days?

I don't know. However, winter isn't always a thick overcast,
especially at this time of year.

When it gets really, really cold, we are often under a big bubble of
Canadian high pressure. The sky turns cobalt blue, the winds die
down, and the temperature plummets. Today was an absolutely perfect
day to fly, if you don't mind the cold.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination

True, the Canadian High brings clear sky, but the days are
still short. A low charged lead-acid battery can freeze.

As you said, a generator has uses year round, power after
the T-storm, maybe a portable welder.

It might be wonderful weather on Friday, but if Monday to
Thursday was blizzard, and the solar panel is under a foot
of snow and the sun hasn't shown for a week, will the
battery heat the engine? Then will the solar panels charge
the battery before it freezes and have it ready for the next
flight?


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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| Winter means thick overcast, how well will your solar
panels
| work in the cold with dark overcast and short days?
|
| I don't know. However, winter isn't always a thick
overcast,
| especially at this time of year.
|
| When it gets really, really cold, we are often under a big
bubble of
| Canadian high pressure. The sky turns cobalt blue, the
winds die
| down, and the temperature plummets. Today was an
absolutely perfect
| day to fly, if you don't mind the cold.
| --
| Jay Honeck
| Iowa City, IA
| Pathfinder N56993
| www.AlexisParkInn.com
| "Your Aviation Destination
|

And just another thought, how far away is the power grid?
Running 120 VAC or even 120/240 to a hanger means you can
work year round, have an air compressor, other power tools
and heat and fans.

My choice would be run a powerline, you can do a lot of that
yourself and get the power company to do the final
connection. Check the codes where you are.

Use a portable generator.

Start aircraft and fly to Texas, stay on the Gulf.



"Jim Macklin" wrote
in message ...
| True, the Canadian High brings clear sky, but the days are
| still short. A low charged lead-acid battery can freeze.
|
| As you said, a generator has uses year round, power after
| the T-storm, maybe a portable welder.
|
| It might be wonderful weather on Friday, but if Monday to
| Thursday was blizzard, and the solar panel is under a foot
| of snow and the sun hasn't shown for a week, will the
| battery heat the engine? Then will the solar panels
charge
| the battery before it freezes and have it ready for the
next
| flight?
|
|
| "Jay Honeck" wrote in message
|
oups.com...
|| Winter means thick overcast, how well will your solar
| panels
|| work in the cold with dark overcast and short days?
||
|| I don't know. However, winter isn't always a thick
| overcast,
|| especially at this time of year.
||
|| When it gets really, really cold, we are often under a
big
| bubble of
|| Canadian high pressure. The sky turns cobalt blue, the
| winds die
|| down, and the temperature plummets. Today was an
| absolutely perfect
|| day to fly, if you don't mind the cold.
|| --
|| Jay Honeck
|| Iowa City, IA
|| Pathfinder N56993
|| www.AlexisParkInn.com
|| "Your Aviation Destination
||
|
|

Jim Macklin wrote:
Start aircraft and fly to Texas, stay on the Gulf.

As long as he promises to go back and keep any of those liberal northern
ideas to himself... We don't need anymore Damn Yankees down here...

"Marco Leon" wrote in message
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On Jan 31, 6:41 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
Sounds like a perfect application for one of those annoying little
Honda generators that we always seem to get stuck next to when
camping...?

Annoying and expensive! The Honda's go for around $600 and the
Coleman's about $450. There's a DuroPower line that runs just north of
$100 but that price makes me take a step back.

Get creative. A weed eater motor driving a car alternator that had one of
it's three diodes go out, and had to replaced comes to mind. Combine that
with an inverter, and you have your needs met, for only junk parts.

That is on my list of "round to-it" projects, for one rainy day. g
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote

Get creative. A weed eater motor driving a car alternator that had one of
it's three diodes go out, and had to replaced comes to mind. Combine that
with an inverter, and you have your needs met, for only junk parts.

Something else I just remembered. I think instructions are out there to
change the output of an alternator to 120 volts DC. The heater does not
care if it is getting AC or DC. You would not even need an inverter, then.
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message
...

Get creative. A weed eater motor driving a car alternator that had one of
it's three diodes go out, and had to replaced comes to mind. Combine that
with an inverter, and you have your needs met, for only junk parts.

Amazon has a generator for $89. Sounds like what you just descibed. Shipping
is $42, so I passed.