Solar-Powered Battery Trickle Charger

[Bodell]

Maplin's got this on offer.

Think i will pop down there tomorrow and pick one up.

Thought i would share it with all.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=98358

[Ian S]

Save your money.

I paid £24 a few year ago for one.

Inside the car on the back shelf 4pm on a sunny afternoon the output was about 20mA, barely enough to operate the flashing LED.

Unless it was actually direct onto the sun during the middle part of the day, just rubbish.

The camping folks with the big vans have ones about 16 times the area to top up their axillary van batteries.

[Grunge]

They are good but like ian says, unless you are keeping your car in a garage for a while where u can have it on the roof or something its not worth having, but then again a tena aint to grumble at!

[Billy-G]

As Ian says, they are utterly ****. Unless it's high summer, the output is almost nil.

Don't even waste your £10.

[Mart]

It'll probably take all the output power to run that blue flashing LED :D

[Ian S]

..folks with the big vans have ones about 16 times the area..

...on the roofs of their vans facing the sun.

Maybe it was 24 times larger.

[markey b]

i bought one... it actually seemed to drain my batt rather than charge

[Billy-G]

i bought one... it actually seemed to drain my batt rather than charge

If it was a cheapy cheapy with no blocking diode, thats exactly what it was doing!