Not entirely FTA, but has anyone made a solar cooker from a satellite dish before? My daughter is making one for a school science project and I was wondering if anyone has done it before and what the results were if they did. I gave her one of my small 18'' X 22'' Direct TV dishes to use for it and it's looking good, so far.
She took off the LNB arm and turned the mount around on the dish so the piece where the arm mounted to doesn't stick out beyond the edge of the dish anymore and the dish sits lower. Tonight she painted all the pieces flat black and tomorrow she's going to cover the dish part itself with reflective foil tape and then put it all back together. She has an old camera tripod to hold a small cooking pot and the dish mount has skew adjustments, so along with the adjustments on the pole itself and the elevation adjustments, it can move just about any direction needed. tomorrow I'm taking her to Lowes to get some wing nuts so a wrench isn't needed to adjust it.
We watched some videos online of some and I was shocked at how well some of them seemed to work! Her teacher had outlined the project as a cardboard box with foil on it and inside, but my daughter asked her if she could do one with a dish instead and the teacher said ok. Has anyone here ever tried this before?
She took off the LNB arm and turned the mount around on the dish so the piece where the arm mounted to doesn't stick out beyond the edge of the dish anymore and the dish sits lower. Tonight she painted all the pieces flat black and tomorrow she's going to cover the dish part itself with reflective foil tape and then put it all back together. She has an old camera tripod to hold a small cooking pot and the dish mount has skew adjustments, so along with the adjustments on the pole itself and the elevation adjustments, it can move just about any direction needed. tomorrow I'm taking her to Lowes to get some wing nuts so a wrench isn't needed to adjust it.
We watched some videos online of some and I was shocked at how well some of them seemed to work! Her teacher had outlined the project as a cardboard box with foil on it and inside, but my daughter asked her if she could do one with a dish instead and the teacher said ok. Has anyone here ever tried this before?