Solar Powered Cabinet incubator

[Farmerboy247]

has anyone made a solar powered cabinet type incubator, if so what does it take? i have a spare cabinet type that i would like to make a self sufficient incubator

 

[GreenGoddess]

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My husband is trying to get me to do the same thing so I would be interested in hearing from someone that has... Hmm... Have you tried to do a google search?

Goddess

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Solar like sunlight to photovoltaic / electricity to heat? Or solar like sunlight / infrared heat directly?

For electric / PV: I've never put a multimeter or "kill-a-watt" device on an incubator to see how much power the different bits draw, so it would be interesting to have this info and then do the math to know how big your solar cells and battery (for heat / turning at night) you'd need.

 

[Farmerboy247]

solar to electric im thinking with the right solar pannels and enough battery storage and a good inverter it should work...im just wondering if its going to work on the bigger cabinet types

 

[GreenGoddess]

I just found this...

http://www.ehow.com/how_5711154_build-solar-chicken-egg-incubator.html

Goddess

 

[Farmerboy247]

ive done some math on power used and cost tor run a cabinet type for the 21-22 day cycle it would cost around $35~40, the solar equipment would cost much much more, this might work on a smaller table top model but for a cabinet type the start up cost would be a large sum

so if anybody has any other ideas let me know, thank you for your replys so far!

 

[tkalito]

instead of just using electricity from solar panel, why not use the heat of the sun. with solar water heaters or solar air heaters with water thermal storge or rocks starage for solar air heaters.