How I Built My Solar Dehydrator

fixedbydoc (63) in homesteading • 7 years ago

I built a solar dehydrator that uses the sun to dehydrate food from our garden and will even make all kinds of jerky on sunny days. It has a small computer fan powered by a small 12vdc solar panel that is used to circulate the air to effect dehydration. I used a fine no-see-um netting to block bugs etc... from entering the vent holes.

Here is the video of it being made:

Here is a video of it being used in our rear field garden:

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7 years ago by fixedbydoc (63)

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cecicastor (60) · 7 years ago

Awesome job! Just what we need to build for our homestead. It would be excellent for dehydrating all our excess fruit.

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fixedbydoc (63) · 7 years ago

it works really great. next summer i will try to show it working on another batch of veggies and some meat.

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imraindrops (26) · 7 years ago

This is AWESOME!!!

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fixedbydoc (63) · 7 years ago

thanks. glad you like it :)

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fixedbydoc (63) · 7 years ago

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