I have a #coldframe made of perspex and wood which due to its location gets a lot of sun in the morning, I've added some temperature sensors and it can get temps of over 40C at times, this is only for 30-60mins and then it gets a bit of shade and cools down.

I'd like to try and take advantage of this burst of heat but spread it during the day - so Mastodon friends - would adding some thermal mass help, perhaps a plastic bottle of water painted black?

What's nice is that I have sensors so should be able to monitor effectiveness!

#diy
#maker
#gardening
#greenhouse

just to add context, here is the temperature graph from the last 7 days, the green line is the internal temp on the esp32 while yellow is a SHT30 temp in a white case (so more accurate).

@smallsolar if I’m reading this correctly (not my area), water or iron are great at holding heat? Followed by earth

[edit] NB the notations are in French in the link, so a comma in a number means units and decimals, not thousands

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacit%C3%A9_thermique_volumique

Capacité thermique volumique — Wikipédia