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• Re: solar charger
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:00:34 -0600
  ...The small solar chargers are intended to only trickle charge a > battery. > Wow, I can do all that with a 2 inch x 4...
• solar charger
  Historical mailing list - marc rose
  Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:32:21 -0800
  Looking for input on a good brand and model of solar battery charger. I know there are alot of different styles. I just have...
• Re: Battery Charger
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 9 Jan 2001 22:57:28 -0500
  ...Battery Charger Has anyone used a Guest Automatic Float Charger on their battery for the winter?
• Solar charger NOT to buy
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:00:58 -0800
  Andrew, I have to say that the three vw chargers I got off ebay have all been good(about 20 dollars with shipping). The...
• Re: Battery Charger Sizing (Amperage) Woe and Warning (?)
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Thu, 1 Aug 2013 20:41:51 -0400
  That charger is far too small fr anything much larger than a lawnmower battery. I'd recommend a 20-30A Iota charger. Karl On...
• Re: Battery Charger ?
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:12:02 -0700
  ...when a battery is dead or actually needs a charge... (I am being sarcastic there) the chargers won't do it. You clip em...
• Re: Is battery isolator better than a relay?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 07:53:37 -0800
  ...This means that the alternator will be told to keep that one correctly charged but the other one can be under charged or dangerously...
• Blog Post: Rear USB Charger Install
  Historical mailing list - Abel Longoria
  Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:15:24 -0500
  Blog post on a Dual USB charger I added to the rear of the van. This install and location works great if you're...
• Re: How Long Running to Charge the Battery After Starting?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Sun, 9 Mar 2008 19:05:29 -0400
  It has been my experience that an alternator can not fully charge a battery after it has been significantly discharged . Generally it requires an...
• Re: Little problem with trickle charger
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:39:32 -0800
  Hey I'm a Youngster ! Battery charges just aren't meant to stay connected to 'the chargee' when not charging. I suppose I leave...
• Re: GoWesty Aux Battery
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:30:52 -0500
  ...The 1,000 is available with a 30 or 50 amp charger. Both the 2,000 watt or 50 amp charger should only be...
• Re: generators/inverters for camping
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:51:17 -0500
  ...Trailer invertor/battery charger shows our trailer batteries getting a good charge through the built-in invertor charger when it (the trailer) is plugged...
• Re: Battery Sages
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:25:10 -0700
  ...Charge the batt again and > leave it overnight..it holds the charge of 12.9 just fine, but when I load > it with the...
• Vitrifrigo: two corrections to my earlier post
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sun, 2 Oct 2011 18:36:51 -0700
  ...BTW, for those who have asked, this is my onboard charger: < http://www.powerstream.com/DC-input-chargers.htm > and click on "PST-BC1212...
• Re: Fw: Fully-charged battery for alternator install?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 5 May 2010 09:50:29 -0700
  Its probably better for the new brushes if it doesn't have to charge really hard right off the bat but its not the...
• Help with sealed lead batteries
  Historical mailing list - Harry Hoffman
  Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:05:04 -0500
  ...Should I disconnect everything and charge one by one or can I charge in series? Anyone have any experience with this? They were hooked...
• Re: travel to libby montana
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:15:53 -0600
  ...Maybe a short slice of heater tape would be easiest > charge on the battery? If so, what kind of charger > works best and can...
• Re: [f]Niners and Chargers! Whew!!!
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:36:45 -0800 (PST)
  Pete Sellers writes: > > My vote is for the Chargers. YEAH! At last someone else on this list with the intelligence to recognize such a...
• Re: Help with sealed lead batteries
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:36:44 -0600
  You can charge them with a 2 Amp trickle charger. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.stir-plate.com www.towercooler.com www.kegkits.com www...
• Re: Battery Recharging Question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:13:58 -0500
  Having the charger set for 6 volts will never ever charge a 12 volt battery. If at the 12 volt setting, the amp meter...
• Battery chargers
  Historical mailing list - Troy
  Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:15:35 -0900
  ...This is one I was looking at http://www.batterystuff.com/battery-chargers/brands/chargetek/CT-500-1.html, but maybe there's a...
• Can I trickle charge an Optima and a regular battery together using jumper cables?
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:00:57 -0400
  ...I am putting my syncro up for the winter and I already have a trickle charger on my Optima for camping that is hooked...
• Air Conditioner Leak
  Historical mailing list - Wade Yorke
  Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:57:23 -0300
  ...No one can find any leaks but I have lost the charge three times. Is it possible for the hoses to leak 134R (because...
• Fw: Battery report
  Historical mailing list - Troy
  Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:37:16 -0900
  ...I had a trickle charger on it for quite a while, but it doesn't seem to want to hold a charge. I suspect...
• Re: Flooded Cell Deep Cycle Battery De-sulphation. Risky?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:58:23 -0700
  All bets are off when the charger is charging under extra load. Some current goes to the load, some to the battery. Charge % reading...
• Re: Trickle Charger Hookup
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:36:30 -0600
  Entity JD Foster spoke thus: > This weekend I picked up a little trickle charger that I'd like to > permanently install and hardwire so...
• Re: Surepower 1315 and charging issues
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 5 May 2009 19:13:42 -0700
  ...So I went down to the > garage to grab my battery charger and volt meter. The charger was > connected directly to the aux battery...
• Re: Charger recommendations for camper?
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:21:08 -0500
  hi jim there is a real neat charger that cycles your battery. takes it up to charge then desulfides or something when charged. will...
• Re: Is a Battery Charger to run 12V systems from 120V OK?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:01:04 -0400
  Robert; It sounds like it was working for you, as long as you do not over charge the batteries. Some chargers will prevent this...
• Aux Battery Charging
  Historical mailing list - David Vickery
  Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:07:26 -0700
  ...other is at say 75%,�does�the fully charged prevent the other one from getting charged? I wouldn't have thought so but I...
• Re: Camper question
  Historical mailing list - Alain Thibault
  Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:18:40 -0800
  ...I have a marine charger that charges both batteries when shore power is plugged in :o) > > toodle pip, > -- > Dug Smith | Terry Pratchett: It's...
• Re: Battery Sages
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:41:24 -0700
  hi, where are you buying you low cost 'maintainer' battery charges. built-in on board is neat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Kanas" <kanas@QADAS...
• Battery Sages..Not 100% Vanagon specific, but applicable..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:18:48 -0700
  I have an almost new battery that was installed then sat unused for a few months with a low charge. Upon trying to start...
• Re: 110v battery charger for house battery - suggestions for 88 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:19:26 -0700
  ...Onboard Charger I've been using one of these for over two years now: http://www.progressivedyn.com/power_converters.html I first had...
• Battery Charger
  Historical mailing list - Pamela Browning
  Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:56:18 -0500
  Has anyone used a Guest Automatic Float Charger on their battery for the winter?
• Re: GoWesty Aux Battery
  Historical mailing list - Miguel Pacheco
  Fri, 29 Nov 2013 06:08:48 -0700
  ...The battery charger can be connected to the house > > battery and also charge the chassis battery when connected to "shore" > > power. The really good...
• Is this a good deal??
  Historical mailing list - chris jackson
  Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:22:55 -0700
  VW Solar Battery Charger. Works on any car. - $25 Date: 2005-04-15, 12:34PM PDT This is a OEM Volkswagen factory solar battery...
• Battery Sages
  Historical mailing list - Jon Kanas
  Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:02:43 -0500
  ...Charge the batt again and > leave it overnight..it holds the charge of 12.9 just fine, but when I load > it with the...
• Re: SURE POWER 1315
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Vickers
  Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:03:38 -0800
  ...Sounds like the PD charger is the way to go. Loren---did you put the charger under your rear seat as well? Did you...
• Re: Westy battery charger
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:31:19 -0500
  Barry I always have used on each battery a NAPA trickle charger. They are connected directly to each individual battery during the winter months...
• Re: Solar Charge Controllers?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
  Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:45:54 -0600
  ...Solar Charge Controllers? > Hello All: > > Was looking for suggestions on solar charge > controller/monitors that are compact for use in a > Vanagon.
• Re: Battery chargers again for small AA, AAA, etc.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 9 Jul 2013 00:36:05 -0400
  Many of these small chargers use "switching" power supplies which can generate noise both audible and electrically. I recently purchase a USB charger cord...
• solar charge controller any suggestions
  Historical mailing list - Edward V Barger
  Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:45:02 -0800
  HI finally getting settled in our new Goleta Santa Barbara digs and finding out that the solar charge controller I had installed on the...
• Re: Sure Power 1315 question
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:19:19 -0800
  I'll second Dennis's comment of the Progressive Dynamics charger. I just returned from a week long trip, 'plugged in' six of seven...
• Re: Camper question
  Historical mailing list - Dug Smith
  Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:17:06 -0800
  ...I have a marine charger that charges both batteries when shore power is plugged in :o) toodle pip, -- Dug Smith | Terry Pratchett: It's...
• Re: stranded... '84 won't start (after exhuast work??)
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:44:26 EDT
  ...A gell cell battery will read 12.8 volts when fully charged. >> . . . true, once the surface charge has been depleted. George
• Re: Solar charger NOT to buy
  Historical mailing list - Jack
  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:31:11 -0800
  ...RE: "Green" solar battery charger > > Below are my message to the Australian distributor, > their reply... > and at the bottom, my response. > > The charge LED...
• travel to libby montana
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:52:25 -0700
  ...Has anyone used a trickle charger to keep a charge on the battery? If so, what kind of charger works best and can I...
• Re: Deep cycle battery replacement for Eurovan 92
  Historical mailing list - Phil Blais
  Sun, 12 Apr 1998 19:02:46 -0700
  ...The battery would charge (at least the computer > was saying it was fully charged) but it couldn't keep its charge for > more than...
• Re: Flooded Cell Deep Cycle Battery De-sulphation. Risky?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:28:14 -0700
  ...Charger meter dropped to 75% charge. This led me to think that maybe my battery wasn't really charging to the 100% as indicated...
• Re: Another @#$% deep cycle battery question!!
  Historical mailing list - S Sittservl
  Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:03:08 EDT
  ...Yasment) > > OK here it goes..... > > 1) Can you charge and discharge a deep cycle battery at the same time? > Ex. Have a solar panel...
• Re: cold start strategies
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:58:16 -0500 (EST)
  I used to have a trickle charger (2 amps, I think) mounted in the interior of my van. I opened a small sliding window...
• Re: Trickle chargers was: Group 41 As house battery,
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Sat, 8 Feb 2020 16:43:04 -0800
  ...trickle charger. > > > > Now looking for a charger that can stay out of sight in my bus and > either fast charge or trickle charge depending...
• Re: Battery Recharging Question
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:51:37 EST
  ...does it need to charge to be fully charged? > > It has a amp gauge on the front of the charger, right now it is...
• Re: Charge battery but can't access it
  Historical mailing list - Vanagaudi
  Sat, 15 Jul 2023 17:31:45 +0200
  If you have a car cigarette lighter equipped and a small 8A charger it's OK to connect the charger to that cigarette lighter...
• Core charge for Vanagon Transmission?
  Historical mailing list - Beth Young
  Sat, 8 Mar 1997 06:27:10 -0800 (PST)
  ...As we were settling up he causually mentioned that I could pay the core charge when I actually come back to get it. It...
• Re: Small smart charger with equalize mode?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:44:05 -0700
  On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Rocket J Squirrel < camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote: > The Progressive Dynamics Charge Wizard is affordably...
• Re: Auxiliary battery trickle charger
  Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
  Sat, 22 Dec 2001 13:08:02 -0600
  ...Auxiliary battery trickle charger Some weeks ago someone on this list talked about a small trickle charger they bought at a FLAPS and hooked...
• Re: Westy battery charger
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:59:04 -0500
  Tim How did you wire the main battery to the onboard charger? I have one NAPA 1.5 charger under the sink also. It...
• Re: more heating ideas
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Mon, 2 Oct 1995 09:43:33 CST6CDT
  an idea- take a battery and a 110v inverter and a 12v battery charger. hook the inverter up to run the charger to charge...