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Re: [T3] Solar battery chargers/maintainers?


> >Anyone using a solar panel to maintain a battery?  Or to even charge a
> >battery?

The diode is needed to stop the battery running the solar cells the wrong way
round at night!

I've one a bit like the one on E-Bay, but it didn't seem to make a lot of
difference to my laid-up camper battery - not sure why, though light levels do
affect the output a lot.  My solar powered garden path lights are giving a glow
for only about one hour of night now - in the summer they were going for 2 or 3
hours.

Dave.
UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club
http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/
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