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Re: [Shop-talk] Solar car battery chargers

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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Solar car battery chargers
From: Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:07:57 -0400
  Hm.  In attempt to keep it simple, can I just buy two and plug one 
into the power port (a cigarette lighter) and one into the actual 
cigarette lighter spot?  Assuming, of course that I can manage to keep 
the cigarette lighter itself in an 'always on' state?

On 10/11/2010 1:02 PM, Randall wrote:
> Short answer: Yes, it will.  What you are fighting (mostly) is the battery's
> self-discharge rate.  So assuming the two batteries are identical, it will
> take twice as much current/power to keep both of them charged.
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