Wagan 2017 Solar Powered Battery Charger

• Keeps your car battery charged at top performance
• Zero maintenance
• Frame is waterproof, scratch resistant and UV resistant
• Quickly starts your engine, just set this on the dashboard to charge
• Charges even during cloudy weather

I use this charger on my 12 year-old VW that has developed a slow drain on the battery. The battery would die if I didn't run the car every day. The charger works, even in the winter in Maine. Some other reviewers damned the device because it didn't work for applications for which is wasn't intended. It's not a whole-house power generator. It's a trickle charger; for that purpose it works beautifully.

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Amazon should change the title of this product to a trickle charger. This solar panel will not charge a dead battery, not even close. This product will keep your battery "topped off" if you are going to leave it sitting for a long time.

This product would be good for someone leaving their car at the airport during a long vacation or a spare car that sits outside all day that is driven every once in a while.

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Was having trouble with my Ford F250 battery being dead after it was left sitting for a couple months. There is some slight computer draw or the like in the system that eventually runs it down. This is just whats needed to keep the battery topped off. The review is simply.... It works or did for a while! Well after a couple months it WASN'T working. Took it apart and found out a soldered wire had come apart. So I resoldered it and wallah it's been working since. So if your stops working take it apart...and see if everything is hooked up before you trash it. If you find nothing to fix ...get out the hammer and beat the crap out of it...!!

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A warning to those looking to purchase this. The odds are that simply plugging this into your cigarette lighter WILL NOT WORK. This is not so much a problem with this device, but rather what they do not tell you.

In order for this to work, you need to have a cigarette lighter that is still connected to the battery WHEN THE CAR IS OFF! If you only have a cigarette ligher that works when the car is running or if the key is in the auxiliary position, this device WILL NOT keep your batter maintained unless you leave the ignition in the auxiliary position which also means you are leaving your keys in the car and also potentially leaving on other power consuming components that come on when the ignition is in auxiliary mode. In my case, the dash clock stays on when in aux mode.

There is a solution. You need to bypass the cigarette lighter and go right to the battery. To do this, you can buy one of these: Roadpro 12V Battery Clip-On and Cigarette Lighter Adapter

This may actually be included in the bundled products you see to buy with this solar system. If you want to keep the solar panel inside the car, then you will likely need an extension cord to get the cigarette lighter into the cab of your car. Just keep all this in mind. For most folks, just buying the solar charger is NOT going to solve your problem.

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Seems well made and does supply some juice. Very little. A tiny trickle to keep a decent battery in a parked car from dying. Make sure it's pointed as directly at the sun at midday as possible.

It is in two parts, the panel and a voltage regulator. You could hook the panel directly to your battery and get a little more juice out of it since the regulator wastes some. But warning, a direct link might let it act as a drain at night, haven't tested it.