The TVR let me down yesterday (had to happen sooner or later). If I don't use the car for a week it won't start due to the battery being drained. I bought a solar trickle charger ages ago for the SD1, but never got round to using it so hooked this up to the TVR, it's only a crappy cheap one (maybe
1W) but thought it was worth a try. Went to take the car out yesterday to fill up with petrol and again, battery was dead. So jump started it with my power pack and took it out for a drive to charge it. Filled up with petrol, and again it wouldn't start, damn. Luckily I took the power pack with me so fumbled around getting it connected (battery is in the passenger footwell) and just got the car started again, but driving off the forecourt it stalled and refused to start again, even with the power pack connected. So almost 2.5 hours later a breakdown truck turns up and jumps me and off I go for another blat to charge it. Very annoying.Ideally it needs to be connected up to a battery conditioner (this is what the previous owner did), but my garage/driveway has no power and is about 30 metres from the house so it's not particularly easy to get it out there. Eventually I'd like to get it hooked up to the house, but for now that's not happening.
So clearly the little 1W solar charger isn't man enough for the job. But there's quite a few others on the market which churn out a bit more power and might be better equipped to deal with the Chim's drain. For example, I'm looking at something like this:
Has enyone else had experience of using these as trickle chargers?