Battery maintainer

[Pat Korach]

James

Harbor Freight has them on sale for $34.99 and they put out 5 watts.

Pat Korach
Kirkland, WA

james accordino wrote:

> Actually, although I'm nearly positive the Army paid
> TOO much, this thing is a 3" x 4" photovoltaic chip
> with a wire to the battery.  That's it.  Just epoxied
> to the fiberglass hood.  It's only a "barely" trickle
> charger.  I could probably measure it's output
> tomorrow if the sun comes out at all.
>
> Jim Accordino
>
> --- Richard Beels <dare2dream at compuserve.com> wrote:
> > You're confusing "charging" with "maintaining.  You
> > charge a dead battery,
> > you maintain a (mostly/partially) charged one.
> > Keeping a full battery on
> > the charger will boil it dry in no time flat; that
> > can lead to BOOMS! in
> > your garage.  More current isn't necessarily better.
> >
> >
> > At 12/04/2002 at 00:32, Shakespearean monkeys danced
> > on Tigran Varosyan's
> > keyboard and said:
> > >
> > >Yea I was going to add, on a small battery like a
> > motorcycle or a tractor
> > >I'm sure they work great. I am also sure that the
> > stuff the Army is using is
> > >nothing like what we buy at schucks, money is not
> > an issue there. I measured
> > >.7 amp @ 14.5v coming out of my $30 unit at full
> > sunlight. I don't know, I
> > >just expected a bit more like 1.5 amp or more...
> > For $30 I would rather get
> > >a plug-in maintainer that can charge the battery
> > overnight...
> > >
> > >Just me.
> > >
> > >Tyson
> > >
> >
> > >The $10 Harbor Freight unit has worked fine for
> > years on my lawn tractor
> > >battery (small 12v).
> > >
> > >At 12/03/2002 at 15:00, Shakespearean monkeys
> > danced on Benjamin Kwan's
> > >keyboard and said:
> > > >
> > > >Does anyone have any recommendations for a
> > battery maintainer?  My sister
> > > >is in Grad school and I rarely drive the car to
> > charge the battery back
> > > >up.  Since it's getting cold up here in the
> > NorthEast, I would like to get
> > > >a battery maintainer so that I can start it when
> > it's time to drive it.
>
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