The Good
- Heats rooms up to 1500 sq. ft.
- Easy to install and use
- No electrical wiring needed
- Compatible with most AC or DC fans
- Includes mounting temple and bracket
- Efficient
The Bad
- Works best when the sun is out
- No way of storing the heat
Detailed Review
The Your Solar Home SolarSheat 1500GS Passive Solar Air Collector was found to be a simple, inexpensive solution to supplement home heating costs. One thing to note is that this product is not a solar panel. Instead is a solar air collector which collects heated air and provides it to an existing vent system. The way this product works is due to air convention—warm air rises and cool air is pushed down. What this product does, is it harvests the warm air at the top and uses a fan to blow it into the heating duct, because the cool air is pushed to the bottom there is no need to worry about cool air entering the ducts. The key selling points to this product were that it was amazingly simple to install without any electrical wiring required and its efficiency. The product installs by two included mounts, and then connected to a duct system. We were also surprised by the high efficiency of the device which produced heat even on cloudy days.
There were not that many aspects that we didn’t like about the SolarSheat. The only thing we could think of was not specific to this product, but to passive solar air collectors overall. They work best when the sun it out, and have no way of storing the heat since there is no electric wiring involved.
Verdict
In the end, we found the SolarSheat to be an excellent product with no product-level cons. It is highly efficient, simple to use, and a perfect supplement for any home.