Re: Battery Central Mall
Posted by Packard Don On 2021/12/15 14:30:46
Since the topic is now about charging and maintaining batteries, I thought I would share this. I hope it's not too out of place!
I designed and built some little devices that will maintain a 6v battery from a standard 12v solar panel. They are not for charging a weak battery but only for maintaining one at full charge although I don't know how they would work on gel batteries as I don't use them.
I did this because normally when I am not at my Oregon shop there is no power so I use a 100 watt solar panel on the roof to maintain all the batteries (some of them also keep the security system powered) but a charger for a 6v battery from a 12v panel didn't seem to exist! Of course, a smaller panel with wires out the door to the outside would do just as well. I built 5 of them and they seem to work but it will be a while before all the testing is done.
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I designed and built some little devices that will maintain a 6v battery from a standard 12v solar panel. They are not for charging a weak battery but only for maintaining one at full charge although I don't know how they would work on gel batteries as I don't use them.
I did this because normally when I am not at my Oregon shop there is no power so I use a 100 watt solar panel on the roof to maintain all the batteries (some of them also keep the security system powered) but a charger for a 6v battery from a 12v panel didn't seem to exist! Of course, a smaller panel with wires out the door to the outside would do just as well. I built 5 of them and they seem to work but it will be a while before all the testing is done.
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