I put one of those small dashboard chargers on my camper down at the 
Gulf before Ivan in september, and things were so messed up I didn't 
get back until thanksgiving. With no load on the battery it was 
completely dead. And I was using one with a diode to prevent 
discharging at night. You better check it out!

Jim

On Dec 16, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Dave Chameides wrote:

> Has anyone ever used one of those solar battery chargers on your 
> vanagon?
> I�m going to be having mine sitting for a while and it seemed like a 
> good
> idea but I wanted to check and see if anyone had any feedback on them.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
>