Dale Where can I get one of these solar trickle chargers,? And how do you keep them in the sun light and protected from the weather at the same time?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 6:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Dead battery We don't have trouble with batteries freezing up here and it gets well down to 40 below. You have to run a vehicle quite a while to charge up a battery, 20 minutes occasionally might keep a really good and fairly new battery topped up but for that purpose you might be as well to trickle it up with a solar charger they do something like 15 watts all day and you spare the engine starting and running unnecessarily when it is cold and the oil all settled at the bottom of the sump. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net> Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: robert moore To: Blind Handyman Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:15 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Dead battery OK I did not get back out in time to start my truck. I think it has been about 3 days now and tonight I went out to start it and there was not even enough power to run the radio. I can take out the battery and put it in the basement to thawe it out but I wonder if it is worth trying to thawe it out and charge it up or if having it freeze like that would warp the plates. I am not going to take it out tonight which of cource will only compound the problem. My next question would be is there any reason at this point to disconnect the battery and take it out. Is the case apt to split when it gets like 40 below. I wonder for safety sake if I would be wise to chock this one up as a loss. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
