Solar trickle charger fail!
It's a 10W solar trickle charger. Found my dual battery down to 9.6V and can't operate my powered jack. Good I have my spare battery, for my kayak motor, that saved the day. My 100W Renogy so...
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ajriding wrote:
* A diode is a little thing that allows current to only go one direction. The direction will be from panel to battery, not the other way (batt to panel). It is about the size of a big grain of rice and has wires on either end. Usually gray color and always with a black stripe on one end.
Years ago we were camping in a huge group and a buddy set up a windmill to power his rig as a goof. It was huge and pretty dangerous, so we gave him plenty of room. He was fussing with it the whole time because it was drawing power from the batteries instead of feeding them. I didn't get involved with his problem, but it seemed to me like something was wired backwards.
We never let him live it down. :B
