[Shop-talk] Solar car battery chargers

[Battmain]

I have two of the Harbor Freight 5 watt solar units. They work. Only issue I 
have with them is the heat.
They get moderately hot. Normally I use something non-combustible to keep them 
off the dash.
I also have the battery minder charger/desulphator. They all work. The solar 
chargers are a little
more convenient when you want to go the vehicle, get in, do what you want. With 
the battery minder,
you need to roll up the extension cord too unless you don't mind leaving it 
sitting in the driveway.

The desulphator worked to recover a few weak batteries I had, but they have been 
regulated to
secondary use as they all went back to being too weak to start the vehicle as a 
primary battery

Brian
battmain at yahoo.com


----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com>
To: Shop Talk List <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
Sent: Mon, October 11, 2010 9:31:41 AM
Subject: [Shop-talk] Solar car battery chargers

Because the truck is moving out of the shop, so I can have the room it's taking 
up, and because i know some of you are not just EEs, but actually apply it as 
well.

I'd like to use a solar trickle charger on my F250 (diesel) to maintain the 
batteries over long period of un-use.  I was about to buy the $30 trickle 
charger off Amazon 
(http://www.amazon.com/Wagan-2017-Solar-Battery-Charger/dp/B000VHT9GS), but I 
wonder if the truck having two batteries means anything (like if I should get a 
bigger charger).  Then it occurred to me that $30 might not buy a lot of 
charger, so I thought I'd throw it out to the list.  Anybody keeping something 
with more than one battery topped up with a solar charger?

Thanks,

Scott
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