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[@stephenbaer2273]

Some Basics... 1. The Photovoltaic (Solar) Panel, will deliver the Voltage, even in "half-sun", but not the full current. 1.1. So your Pump will run, but it won't have enough force to cycle sufficient amounts of water (according to your setup [ resistance, etc.]) 2. The Efficiency of Heat Transfer from the inner tube surface to the energy carrying medium (Water) is higher, the faster the medium travels. 2.2. Of course the larger the delta on energy (difference in temperature) the higher the efficiency as under 2. 3. Have a look at your Pump Data. Depending on the built and style of the rotor, there are different heights for pulling (sucking in the water) and pushing (pumping out the water). So you might be able to tweak the flow ratio by positioning the pump at a height, that improves flow, which helps with efficiency as mentioned in 2. again. 4. Don't put a metal sheet onto the coiled tubing, you'd only sacrifice surface area for capturing energy from the sun. 4.1. No! metal doesn't "get hotter", (so there's no gain to expect), it just feels hotter to the touch than Plastics, due to it's ability to transfer energy quicker, 5. If you're not a 100% sure about the Pump (remember it's not a specific pool pump!) and the powerline being sturdy and resistant enough for Kids, Dogs, Toys, and maybe chlorine or any other Chems in the Water, don't submerge it in the Pool! Keep your family and yourself safe and check three times if everything is utterly safe! Please! Would be a shame about Mere and the Kids, … yeah, about you too, … a bit… ;-P If you find spelling or grammar errors, you are allowed to keep them! Regards from a german electrical engineer, and have a good one. S.

[@ajwiisonwiison1591]

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[@kingalee]

Cut the plexiglass to fit inside the frame and hold the hose down

[@OffTheRanch]

Lee King that’s actually a really good idea

[@knothead5217]

Or cut the side walls down to maybe an 1/8 or 1/4 " wider than the diameter of the hose and still put the glass on top.

[@davidthomas5482]

Then you can nail in some spacers along the edges on the inside and put another piece of plexiglass on top.

[@battleboy0595]

But cut it down because it will collect rain

[@MrAnd3rsson]

You need to build one that's about 10 times as big if you wanna heat that big pool, lol xD

[@wujujuju]

He doesn't want a hot tub, just 3-5 degrees warmer

[@joshk5959]

@@wujujuju you must not know how much It takes to make a pool that size 3-5 degrees warmer lol

[@jonguyton1]

@@wujujuju That set up will not even raise that size pool 1 degree much less 3-5. A pool that size probably has 20,000 gallons of water. It takes 8.33 BTUs to raise one gallon of water 1 degree. That means you would have to have 166,000 BTUs to heat it 1 degree.

[@idgaf5252]

MrAndersson is totally right

[@iswearurcancer3501]

This comment is right he won't accomplish anything with this but maybe it'll make one side of the pool warm😂😂

[@adamkatz94]

I think your going to need a few more BTUs to heat that pool.

[@JohnDoe-dj3xh]

I mean depends on how fast he wants it heated

[@timjoseman1643]

this would be a great collaboration for smarter everyday

[@logankolby13]

SmarterEveryDay and/or Mark Rober. With both, could have awesome will it stop a bullet videos.

[@lohhjjlohicv6829]

We need a Bronco update!!!!!

[@richardgabrik4694]

We really do

[@BaltaM4ster]

we do

[@mattslosman6814]

And THICC shirts

[@hunterc9520]

For real

[@davidferrer65]

He said its coming soon on IG

[@michaelmazzoni6331]

Good Idea Matt. But you would need 10+ of these water heater boxes, a Larger pump to run all the solar heaters in series.

[@janprochazka5161]

PVC hose is good insulator, so the heat won't get to the water easily. But it is cheaper than say copper tube, if that is the point. Solar panel makes DC voltage, so it should be connected inside the pump instead of AC/DC convertor or get a DC/AC convertor to a normal plug.

[@Tx88Boy]

Hey Matt. Cut the plexiglass to the inside Diameter to the box so that way it compresses the coils down on the bottom. Love the videos.

[@sagenyberg8189]

Mdematteo88 it’s area not diamater

[@jamesunderwood386]

Hey Matt You should use 2 inch black hose coil it like you did but run through the pool filter.

[@JB-fk3bt]

You're gonna need a hell of a lot more hose and black boxes to heat that pool mate.

[@travkel33]

Really enjoy watching construction ranch. Thumbs up for meredith.

[@hoofington7866]

Slow flow for what your doing is perfect!! As big as your pool is you should consider making 3 more of those. Cant help on the power issue.

[@bmw540i]

Blane Imhoff solar panels?? But it depends if the motor is ac or dc? And whether the pump needs a min voltage to run or whether it will just trickle with low volts/amps.

[@hoofington7866]

@@bmw540i I know solar panels is what he needs and also a battery for intermittent clouds It also needs some sort of photo sensor to turn the pump on and off and I cant speak for that subject and I have never personally involved myself in that project.....as far as those heaters 3 more all on separate pumps would make a difference as long as the flow is slow you will definitely feel the difference in temp!

[@crittergitteroutdoors9584]

Get you an electric fence solar panel. It has battery back up

[@christiangraham4579]

Critter Gitter Outdoors with a timer on it like those for powering lights to grow your indoor “vegetables”.

[@crackerjack03]

Boats... body armor... why not water heaters? The answer is FLEX SEAL!

[@trowabarton4796]

With Flex Seal you can turn a Car into a Submarine xD

[@scoutmaster33]

Flex seal is a thermal insulator....

[@ajwiisonwiison1591]

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[@Curt49]

Step 1: Get solar panel to power pump Step 2: Throw away previous design Step 3: Buy heater and power it with solar panel from step 1 :) just kiddin

[@MitaKgEg]

Why are you kidding? His design couldn't make a kiddy pool lukewarm 😂

[@megandick7201]

The pool would be really warm

[@jasonforester4572]

Dude. Stick all the hose down with FLEXSEAL. How did you not think of that? 😜

[@Acrion177]

That's what I was thinking haha

[@damiansamuell5907]

Flexseal is rubber rubber doesn’t absorb heat well

[@bobm5377]

Wow! Great Idea!!!

[@bobm5377]

@@damiansamuell5907 WHAT? Have you ever turned on the water hose in a sunny day? It will burn your panties off!!

[@MissLilyputt]

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[@joshuahamm7404]

Don't think we didn't notice the edit after you said you had a bunch of hose ! I saw that smirk. Lol!!

[@NightStalkerDNS]

Hahaha. Yes, saw that as well.

[@mattslosman6814]

Same

[@oreomonkey]

I had to go back and see that

[@joshuahamm7404]

That was definitely a Dr Matt K moment 😂

[@SuperUncleRyan]

...then he said he had wood for his hose.

[@moe.s9851]

Matt your solar heater might heat a kitty pool😂 Love your videos man👍

[@c0mf0rtablel1ar]

Kiddie*

[@shanedoherty8139]

@@c0mf0rtablel1ar grammar nazi

[@aquariumaddict]

@@shanedoherty8139 there's a big difference between a cat and a child.

[@maxst2]

Why can't the kittens have a pool jerks!

[@edsmith150]

@@aquariumaddict no no there's not although the cat might listen to you more than the kid

[@ryanb5142]

Your system should raise temp .0001 degrees

[@ajwiisonwiison1591]

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[@Matt-ob8gj]

To get your philips head put push in the black piece (or pull out) thats holding it in and the bit will fall out. It is meant for the longer heads with the inset.

[@jackpetrak1821]

Just put the plexi glass up against the coils and tack it down

[@Nomnomnomcooki3s]

Went to say this and found yours. RIP

[@futureonjk]

The coils is plastic they will melt. Plus he needs to use copper it stays coiled up and it's paintable. It'll withstand the heat and heats up faster. People used 1in pipes and bend them like pipes on the back of the refrigerator then paint black or tar coat.

[@jaydunbar7538]

@@futureonjk that depends on the plastic, if it's hot water rated it will be fine. High temp cpvc would have been my choice for cost and ease to work with.

[@futureonjk]

@@jaydunbar7538 You need a conductive material not a dielectric material. Black is an energy pulling color so it'll heat up copper. That's why I suggest black 3.0 paint. Dielectric material can be applied outside of the heater box. Dielectric acts like an insulator to keep the heat in. Since it repels energy.

[@pashahart8698]

You could cut the glass to fix in the box to sandwich the tube in

[@treles]

Variation of this principle, cut the side walls down (or replace) to the height of the tubing

[@pashahart8698]

Yes groves in three wall with the forth cut down to allow the glass to slide over it would have been better from the start. Maybe on construction ranch Matt should work shop the idea before the build.

[@scottbishop7899]

I would use a black metal wire mesh/screen/grill to hold the tubing down flat and stay in a coil, may help make it look more semi professionally made lol

[@sinistergates6630]

Me and my brother made a heater for our pool in an almost identical fashion 1 we used excessively long screws through the sides to hold down the tubing. 2 we used the pool jets to run the water no pump needed. Works great!

[@bearshs]

I made mine all from garage sale finds. Area was 2 and half sheets of plywood. Copper pipe soldered to copper scrap sheets. Painted black. Acrylic covers on the three boxes. Used a shallow well pump, with a sensor that kicked pump on when it was 90 degrees inside box. Cooler in Oregon. Above ground pool mostly shaded by buildings. Worked until kids were in high school.

[@philb5593]

Magnet. Use a strong magnet to pull out that bit. Or you maybe can grab it with a needle-nose pliers

[@bronzetoothbrush6825]

I have a name If that doesn't work take a screw that best fits in there , put a small amount of adhesive in the hole of the screw ( the eye ? , I don't think I know that term ) and jam it in quickly and let it dry to harden . Try to normally pull it out by the chuck and it should come out attached to the screw . I did this trick when an earphone jack broke in my I pad and I couldn't get it out even with tweezers . I took the ink of a ballpoint pen , made sure it would fit over the piece stuck , took a bit of nail glue ( superglue ) and did this method .

[@MatCatSoft]

Matt, 0.6A @ 120V is 72 watts, so you will need a solar panel that can produce not only 72 watts, but you also need to account for the losses including the inverter, so I would say you want at least 150 watt panel with 100 watt inverter.

[@johnnicatra570]

Mere always looks good.Congrats to your kids.Save save save for college my man.

[@aquariumaddict]

she looks awesome!

[@DilsterLex]

You reminded me of a design I create when I was in prep school. Year 8. It was a solar heater coiled black pvc pipe suspended in a metal reflective chasse with a glass top to create a greenhouse effect. Best part is you can connect multiple ones together.

[@eduardosalazar2952]

Congrats with your kids 🙏🏻 I admire you a lot with your family

[@Delta_airsoft24]

You should sell spent shell casings from the demo ranch videos!

[@allthingsmotorized1885]

Definitely

[@alexiscoronado6911]

Thank you Matt for signing my package of shirts that I ordered !!! Keep up the good work bro 😉🤠🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@dustincox9742]

With the size of the pool you will need one of those every 10ft

[@rr1129]

Engineer here, I would double plexi glass the enclosure so it’s clear on bottom and top, and surround it by mirrors (concave as to direct the sunlight towards the bottom of the glass) in order to “cook” it from the bottom as well as receive sunlight from the top. As for the water pump, you want a 12V DC amazon pump since 12V works directly hooked up to a 12V solar panel and can vary in amperage which just changes the speed of the pump vs 120v (house mains) that needs a power inverter to run and needs 120V at all times (isn’t variable so less useful most of the time). If you have any questions I can gladly help you DM me, I can even send you some goodies to get you nicely started in an automated way ;)

[@Paintfilly1]

Matt, cut that plexi-glass to fit down on the inside of your box, laying on top of the black coils. Then drill a couple of holes at opposite sides each and run a wood or metal dowel through the holes on one side to the other side to keep the glass tight to the coils. Good luck Matt!

[@fliegenmann2562]

You should maybe leave a space between the pipes and get direct sunlight on them. But its such a cool project dude! Thumps up. 😬👍 And I think a 12V pump works better with solar energy. You would loose power to raise the voltage to 110V...

[@noahluppe]

Especially you would need to make ac out of the DC from the panel

[@thetorchchannel357]

Yay !!! It's a Pinfire gun !! I can't wait to see how the gas pump fares against it !!

[@R2Friend]

Never been this early for a video 😂 keep it up Matt love you bro. Say hi to Mere and the little ones for me!!

[@billm7166]

Matt my family did a solar panel like that back in the 80's. We put it on our tin roof covered 1 side of the roof. The pool pump was what fed the solar panel. We put a cutoff dial in line to turn the panel off. We brought our inground pool from 78° to 92°

[@Hatch61]

Ryobi is great, I have he whole set, including the gardening tools and power inverter. They never let me down. And Mere’s hair looks beautiful, God bless you Mere,, there is so much I could tell you, but I promised Matt I wouldn’t. Be well guys.

[@lab____2003]

Your kids may not be kids anymore, but I think everyone knows you still are 😁

[@YH-ri9gq]

😂😂😂😂

[@AdobeCRT]

I think they made solar powered pumps for fountains already, just one use of those.

[@xxgreatnatexx]

Just look on Amazon for solar powered fountain pumps. I use one on a fountain out here in California. Works great no need to adapt anything n super cheap. Usually $35-$40 for a decent one.

[@trevor5379]

Yeah.... I've looked into solar before, the big hiccup is needing an inverter and whatnot.

[@xxgreatnatexx]

I got one no inverter needed since it's a small load requirement and many have em built in

[@trevor5379]

@@xxgreatnatexx if you get one designed for solar you're good. But I was trying to adapt existing stuff to solar. You need an inverter and batteries.

[@baj619]

@@trevor5379 the fountain pump will draw so little. solar draws dc power so for like a house hold ya you will need to invert it to ac power

[@baj619]

for something of this size and what he wants this is the best option

[@yutushi6914]

Drill a small hole through the bit and put a piece of metal safety wire (like the kind you tie off bolts on a race car) and feed that through and tie it to something and pull.

[@usn83001]

Great seeing the awards, cool little project with the solor. . . Mere, stunning. You Sir are a family man to be emulated. Cheers.

[@StuffswithEric]

You can also make this work by gravity feed which would not require a pump or electricity. Use can use a valve at pool level to regulate the flow.

[@letsnotmakethispersonal6021]

Negative ghost rider

[@wibbledee]

pull back the collet on that driver, then pull the bit back with pliers. I've had the same issue.

[@michaelboyle9889]

That's never going to heat your pool but meres hair awesome 💈

[@logmover123]

Matt, you want to prioritize surface area with this heater. We have something similar but it is much, much bigger and it's barely able to warm the area of the water return. As for making sure they don't move, zip ties or maybe some hot glue. If you want to power your pump with solar power you need to get a panel that's big enough and is able to output however much that pump needs. So a 12v pump would need a 12v capable panel.

[@coldsteelscouts]

Should buy 1/2" poly irrigation tubing. I just built a heater last week. Dripdepot has great prices on tubing. You can get 1000ft for like $110 and I got free shipping. Lowes and home depot charge like 90 bucks for 100 feet. I put a T fitting off my main pool pump outlet line and installed a ball valve to control flow. I also coiled the tubing on a pvc "x" with a four way connection in the middle. Built an 8'x8' box with corrugated plastic roofing to hold the heat in. I believe my total build cost was $200. Probably used 700 zip ties to connect to pvc and to tie to other tubes.

[@evolutionglitch4739]

Matt, you got a micro gun that actually fires! Sweet!

[@democratsuck]

3:40 Anyone else notice the giant stack of rifle cases in front of the Goblin?!

[@jmhm17]

Yeah he has a huge collection of them he moved them all a few months ago when he cleaned out the garage..

[@andrewm8734]

Haha

[@Heimdal.]

You need to buy another type of pump that drives on direct current (DC) because the solar panels outputs DC, not AC which your pump drives on.

[@violentvet3494]

Turn the wooden box into a mould with the plastic on the bottom. Then lay out your piping how you wish it to stay with the two hose ends secured out of your mould. Fill your hose mold with FLEX SEAL and place a backing board to the frame .

[@the_collective_hayden]

My parents did something like this for or pool back at home in Arizona. They had these black sheets that had little cylidrical channels. It was like 3 feet wide by 8 feet long. They had two sheets hung up on a wooden frame. They connected it all pannels to 3 inch PVC pipe ran underground to the pool pump so it worked whenever the pump was on. It had a valve connected to the panneling so you could turn it off when you didn't want it. We did all the build and install ourselves so it wasn't too pricey. And it worked very well.

[@NiteshKumar-tn8xt]

You're gonna need: A solar panel of at least 100 Watts, 12 volt. They're everywhere. A Battery. For this application, you'll be good with any car battery. An inverter. A charge controller.

[@davidkrutsinger5414]

cheap panels at harbor fright

[@NiteshKumar-tn8xt]

@@davidkrutsinger5414 100 watt, 12v is the 9mm of solar panels. Dirt cheap and available everywhere.

[@hawkeye1939]

that solar heater is perfect... to walm your bath a tiny bit :)

[@meelo4597]

Scot Graham right

[@Lilith-Rose]

Firstly glue the hose to the board, secondly you can get specific solar powered fountain/pond pumps, just look for them on amazon or ebay

[@BowmanHawk]

Im not sure how glue would react with that type of plastic, but most manufacturers will void warrenty if you expose it to something like an adhesive. The clips he was using are ideal. Just more

[@Lilith-Rose]

@@BowmanHawk I doubt he's worried about the warranty on cheap flexible hosing, and that's why you test glue before using it, there are different kinds of glues, personally I'd use spray adhesive or no more nails which are pretty inert to hold it in place glue/adhesive is a cheaper easier option

[@BowmanHawk]

@@Lilith-Rose j clips are rediculously inexpensive. simple to use. ive been attaching plastic piping to surfaces for most of my life. but yah...whatever, have ater with that glue.

[@TheAngryEagle]

To keep your coiled hose tidy, attach the plexiglass to the box first (leave the bottom off of the box). Place the box plexiglass-down on your work surface and coil the hose. Once your hose is how you like it (you might need to leave it in sunlight to soften the hose and make it easier to coil), place the plywood backing directly on the hose and screw it into place. You'll end up with the coiled hose flush against the plexiglass without the need for any zipties or other stuff.

[@codyoakes4]

you may be able to wire a relay switch to replace the normal on/off switch on your pump and wire the a solar panel to activate it so it will only be on when the solar panel is giving current. you would still have to have the pump plugged in this way though. hope this helps. cant wait to see how it turns out.

[@07Countryboi]

Rayobi is great been using it in house renos n have not had a problem!

[@loganstutz3703]

Come on bro.... you own a flame thrower..... do it right!

[@WhatTrigger]

Didn't that get destroyed on the Christmas or new years video?

[@ajwiisonwiison1591]

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[@USN_Ret-]

WTH you need a heated pool in south Texas?

[@kbeast1994]

I agree we don't need this except for in like December.

[@johngiambrone6276]

Matt you can use maybe some rocks below the hoses to radiate more heat up! Even if it’s cloudy should retain heat in rocks more then wood .

[@69CamaroSS]

Coil the hose like you had it (tightly) and secure your plexiglass *DIRECTLY* on top of it.....touching it (rather than spaced a few inches above it)!! This will hold the hose securely in place as well as making for a smaller volume of air inside the box = higher internal heat! 👍😉

[@hobcarleton2269]

You could put a mirror on the bottom and and one way mirror on the top which would trap the sunlight making the box hotter.

[@eshay6132]

HCarleton16 a mirror is the worst for that tat will deflect the sunlight instead of trapping it

[@jessetimmerman3548]

When he said “I got a bunch of hose” We know Matt, we know😂

[@WNYHooligans]

You should plumb it in line with your filter. It will move more volume and wont have a sketchy 12v pump hanging over the side.

[@WhiteLBZ]

It still won't heat that 25,000 plus gallon pool up unfortunately. I just showed my boss who has solar panels and sells heaters everyday. There's no way it's Going to pump heat into that pool might drop it by 2 degrees if that but not anymore and you can't control how much heat your getting even if it did work :(

[@douglaselliott8298]

Coil the tube as desired in the box, place the plexiglass on top of the plastic tube, secure the plexiglass at all four corners from accidentally falling out of the box. The plexiglass keeps the tubing from falling out/unraveling and the four corner fasteners(of your choice/construction) keep the plexiglass in place.

[@dedalliance1]

I'm no engineer but I'm slightly a genius. My first tip would be to put some black stone or tile, probably stone preferably on the bottom of the box (The inside) and set the hoses on top of that. What this should do is heat stone up while also heating your tubes, but if a cloud goes over the sun or whatever else, then the radiant heat being let off from the stone will continue to keep the hoses warm. Just like asphalt on a hot summer day, if you go outside maybe an hour or 2 after it's been dark and touch the asphalt it will still be plenty warm. Really any stone or concrete or if you could get asphalt that would be great, but as long as it's black to help absorb energy then it will do good. My 2nd tip would be to get what other people have said, a little water pump with a built in solar panel thing would be ideal so you know it'll work as advertised, I would check harborfrieght for something cheap just to see how it works and then upgrade later if you needed to. Now, you'll probably need a whole lot more surface area than that little box. I'm not an engineer like I mentioned before, so I'm not going to go into a whole bunch of numbers but that little pump maybe moves like 50 gallons an hour I would think at best, if you think your pool is probably around, 50 thousand gallons in it if I had to guess. So you'd have to let the pump run 1,000 hours straight to cycle the entire pool, which would be like a month and a half of continuous running. So I'm sure that's not enough to effectively heat the pool. So, you'll probably want a much bigger pump. Now here's my idea that would be really cool. So, you have a relatively large house, and also a very large barn. What you do is get a couple thousand feet of hose, and then late it in a very tight S pattern across the surface of your roof on the house or the barn, or even both. The asphalt shingles on your roof will heat up very hot in the sunlight, and so will the metal roof on the barn. This will make that water very hot, possibly close to scolding on a hot day. What you want to make sure you do though, is run the hose that's coming off of the pump to the peak of the house, and then run the hose down the roof from there, if you try to have a little pump push all the water up the roof I don't think it will work very well, this way it's actually going to be like a siphon because all of the suction of the water running down the roof will help draw water up to the peak. The hardest part of this is getting the hose to and from the pool in a nice looking fashion. It's like your chicken coop water system but way cooler and better. I think this will get you enough surface area to actually heat the pool up and the best part is other than the hose and pump it's pretty much free because you don't need a box to hold the hose and such. To sum it up for those people that don't like reading. Get a bunch of hose, run it across the roof of the house and or the barn, let the solar energy heat it up there and then cycle it back down into the pool which will give more than enough surface area of hose to actually heat the pool. Upvote this if you want to see it done.

[@aarontash]

As respectful as possible, Meredith is looking hot, good catch Matt

[@MrKalon52]

You’ll need a 12 volt pump if you use solar. Or a battery bank with converter

[@bryanjk]

Yeah you would need at least a battery and inverter inside of a weather tight enclosure for that pump. He's better off getting a DC water pump with just a panel. Amazon sells kits with a paired pump and panel.

[@Krebzonide]

You should collab the project with a science youtuber like mark rober.

[@heyletsplaythis]

Coil it up how you had it before you tipped it over. Cut plexiglass to fit inside the box, flush to the piping. Then put some bracing against the plexiglass. Like small wood trim above it.

[@legoclone7]

Hey Matt, You should cut the plexi to the size of the inside of the box and just place it right on top of the tubing and secure it from the top.

[@ethanporter2386]

Timeer to control when it comes on a battery to store the power and the panel to charge it

[@sportsfan9040]

Title made me think of "i'm a doctor-ish" from Demolition Ranch

[@americaproud9344]

Same lol

[@longboardluv2]

you're not an idiot Matt, but you're in Central Texas, in 3 weeks it's going to be so hot you won't need this at all :)

[@jerryjohnsonii4181]

Congratulations Annie !!!!!!!!!

[@gaylemamabutterfly]

We had an old handy man family member who made himself a solar heater. He got enough black hose to put around his above ground pool three times. Surprisingly it did work. Good luck with it.

[@susansollee1839]

Love your videos! Before you know it, you’ll be dropping them off for their gradnite as I’m doing tonite with my granddaughter. (Mixed Emotions)😂 Mere looks Great! Pretty lady. Your project--would plastic ties be safer? No chance of getting shocked? 👍🏻💪🤗💕

[@ianfarquharson3772]

Put a black tarp on look when not using it. Does same thing. TkEZ>UK

[@dodgyhodgie734]

Matt speak to your wife before doing silly stuff. She's an engineer you know? 🙄

[@rumhave9632]

Do tell Mere! 🤣

[@rhyswebb5957]

admittedly my first thought was something along the lines of "but you're married to an engineer"

[@TheLufkins]

@@rhyswebb5957 she'd probably look at what's he's done so far and just walk away shaking her head.

[@rhyswebb5957]

@@TheLufkins as someone with an engineering degree myself I probably would too

[@Kristenstoll34]

Lol i forgot maybe he did too

[@harryschringg5002]

It works but it takes a lot. We use 200' of 1 1/4" poly strung around the yard and a big submersible pump to heat up a 16' above ground pool and it takes a couple days but it doesn't get as hot here in Montana and it gets cooler at night.

[@inventor1995]

Make the wood frame shallower to just the thickness of the tubing and just use the plexiglass/polycarbonate sheet to sandwich the tubing. For the pump you can get a cheap solar charging controller, 300 watt power inverter, and a marine battery. Then mount the electronics in a Apache case from harbor freight.

[@TacticalAmputee]

Literally just uploaded and you already have 4k views. I freaking love you bro you are my idol, and because of you I have gained the confidence to start my own channel ( under construction )

[@kotindustrie5584]

Uno momento... So much 9mm. I think he really bought the uzi

[@callan7468]

Kotindustrie Pretty sure he showed the spaz in the demoranch video after the auction

[@plutotheplanet5341]

Or rechambered the Spas :D

[@kotindustrie5584]

@@callan7468 i dont think so but im gonna check

[@dadvsdad1470]

You should do a collab with Houston Jones aka "Bodybuilder vs" maybe have Robert Oberst! Do some gun recoil/ strong man stuff!!!

[@TheCrossduden]

Hey Matt! I don't really have a lot of experience with solar panels, but i do work as an electrician in Norway. I think it would have been a good idea to make a box to hold a car battery and charge it up using a solar panel on top. To make this work you would have to also buy a 12V pump. (i dont think it's possible to get enough voltage out of a normal solar panel to make it work on an 120v pump. Then you would have to wire several solar panels in series.) This way you could also install a switch on the side of the box to run the pump when you wanted to, or photocell switch to make it run by itself when it is bright outside. As far as organising the tubes, i really liked the other suggestions here in the comments about using flexseal to glue them in the box. If you like this idea like the comment so Matt can see it. :) (sorry for any misspelling)

[@brandonhertel1033]

matt, you can keep it plugged in but what my family does for Christmas lights is use extension cords that run on timers, so you can set when the pump will turn on and when it will turn off without worry. hope this helps! love the videos!!

[@brandonhertel1033]

here's a link to one so you have an idea: www.walmart.com/ip/TORK-602B-Plug-In-Timer-Black-Outdoor-125V-Mchnicl/54798509?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=1122&adid=22222222227049990251&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=145305437039&wl4=pla-261008267485&wl5=1023583&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=101593696&wl11=online&wl12=54798509&wl13=&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_r3nBRDxARIsAJljleExEUrQ1duiNvGoXIR45DJ7EcD7uOFv94WO4QcaHiaQnEJnGjtRUGUaAqlUEALw_wcB

[@calvinbeck7392]

DRILL : Matt. It happens to mine all the time. Use some needle nose pliers. It will come right out

[@Bamaboy35653]

Calvin Beck good idea but I think he just wanted an excuse lol lol

[@TheLordNugget]

Shhhhh. Let him enjoy the new drill. Any excuse for new tools is a good excuse.

[@jacobst.angelo2591]

It would draw 72 watts of power so maybe pick up a 100 watt solar power kit

[@goatslayerwp]

I saw that snicker right after you said "bunch of hose".... lol

[@geopioneergsxr5357]

Cut the plexiglass to fit down INSIDE the box. After you coil all the hose up, just sandwich it in with the plexiglass! Easy peasy!

[@davegilders9779]

A section of rolled wire fence would do the trick of holding the tubing in without blocking much. It would also allow you some access to make repairs to the tubing.

[@gavins6937]

First time I’ve been this early 😂

[@justanothernoob6917]

me too\

[@debbiebowman7148]

How about just getting a solar pool cover? 🤷‍♀️

[@thefreedomwarrior]

Debbie Bowman Country boys would rather make things our selves. Yes. Sometimes it cost more than a ready made device but there is no satisfaction in that.

Bubble plast cover for pools are inexpensive and do magic to keep the heat.

[@xhinkoo]

Hook them together by just putting the pexy glass right up against it🤷‍♂️

[@crawl3ysnipe]

Matt, hook a battery to your solar panels and store your energy. Then hook a timer to your pump and it should work. You may need an inverter to change from battery to plug.

[@Zerzil1974]

My opinion. If about halfway down that box, cut a slot around the edge for the plexiglass. If you lave too much room, the hose will come out again and then be between the plexiglass and the top of the box - have it press it into place almost. This will also keep a warm air pocket close to the hose and help heat. I know someone who uses a system like this and it works fairly well. It's not going to heat your whole pool in an hour, but it will work. Free energy baby! As for the solar - get a battery, It will charge, then run the pump off of that, it will cover off the low periods and charge even on a cloudy day (not as well as direct sunlight but it will still charge). Panel -> battery -> pump.