>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

I bought a "Green Charger", with an Australian brand name (made in
China, of course). The first one didn't charge the battery , so I had
an electronics technician test it at work. It didn't put out enough
juice to charge a dead cockroach. Nor did the replacement, so I got a
refund & complained to the "manufacturer"... who did reply and asked
that I arrange for the seller to hold one of those I'd tried, to be
picked up and checked out. I did so and have heard nothing further.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut