I want to take a coolbox with me on weekend trips and hollidays.
It should be used for keeping insuline and some food/drinks cool during the hot days.
Besides that I'm thinking to use the place under the bike seat as an aux fuel cell.
The original battery has to move to the sidecar trunk. And because of the extra
gadgets a bigger car battery is a good thing I guess.
However the coolboxes/bags I've seen so far uses at least 36 to 48 Watts. The solar
panels are quite expensive and will give only 4 hours a day max
power in my area. If mounted on the top of the trailer the max capacity is about 120
Watt/24hour.
On the camp sites and or treffens there is no elctricity to take over the job from the
battery.
So may be I've to cool things with gel packs and freeze elements.
John Dreuning
The Netherlands
http://home.planet.nl/~dreuning
"Welch, Garrett R" wrote:
> John, the answer to you question is yes and no.
>
> If you continuously drain you battery to the point that it would require a full
>charge then yes, it would prematurely wear your alternator.
>
> But if you don not discharge your battery fully then it will be able to keep the
>battery at full charge.
>
> BUT I think the bigger question would be "Why do you need a larger battery?"
> For increased power requirements? if so how much?
>
> Batterygaurd sound great for the occasionally memory lapse. Combined with the solar
>charger sounds like a excellent way to keep a battery charged.
>
> Garrett Welch
> Everett, WA USA
