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Last updated October 20th, 2008 (picture number 6 big dish about 85 cm)

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Here are some explanations to build a solar dish for a home to have hot water for free
1 - Find a solar dish of 1m of diameter ideally 1m equals 1000 watt (mine is 60 cm second hand)
2 - Get broken mirrors and have them cut by a professionnal in pieces of 4cm by 4cm
3 - Then paste them with double adhesive tape to fit parabolic shape
4 - For the rotation system, get an old used hard drive whith a large diameter (about 4cm), make a hole
in a piece of wood , and put it in the rotation system
5- For the horizontal rotation (East - West), I connected an electronic timer (20 programs) to a TM1 Plus, The dish turns slowly with a 12 volts motor.
cost 50$ !. I have to install an electronic timer to put it back in East at the end of the day and test outside.....
Here is a very cleverhorizontal rotation system that uses the position in degree to rotate the dish (example: at 9:45 it has to be 158 degree from East) , the all system is made from a parabolic TV system
For the vertical rotation variable accordingly to the seasons I want yo buy a LED system on redrok
6 - Finally, to collect the hot water I got an aquarium that I am going to isolate
and I am going to connect this hot water to the cold water entry of my electrical hot water heater
for that I will use some Thermostatic Valves ....... to be continued ....