Product Description

Yet another reason to love the sun: it'll keep your car's battery charged. Just plug this helpful 1.8-watt solar charger into your vehicle's 12V lighter socket and position the panel to pick up the most daylight possible. Or use the included alligator clips to connect it directly to the battery. Either way, you won't get caught off guard without the juice to start your car. Blue LED light shows it's working. Works on cloudy days too. Imported. 1.25Hx6.5Wx18L".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61 in Automotive
• Brand: Sunforce
• Model: 50012
• Released on: 2005-11-25
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.25" h x 6.00" w x 19.00" l,

Features

• 1.8-watt solar charger plugs into your vehicle's 12-volt lighter socket
• Works with automobile, all terrain vehicle (ATV), personal water craft (PWC), and boat batteries
• Made of durable ABS plastic and amorphous solar cells
• Includes alligator clips for direct connection to a battery
• Measures 6.5 x 1.25 x 18 inches (WxHxD)

Customer Reviews

cord contacts easily detached
I read reviews about this solar panel, and they talked about the weak soldering of the cord to the solar panel. In the face of the other reviews that praised its benefit, I decided to take my chances.

This panel works fine, but if you don't handle with care, it'll stop functioning all at once, like mine.

The bad thing about it is that it must be hidden from sunlight when the engine is ignited, otherwise, they'll be really hot. May be they don't have a protection circuit.... I Think this should be taken care of in the design.

Hit/Miss
I used this thing on two auto's through the lighter circuit with two diametrically opposed results. On the older model GM it seemed to work(at least it did not discharge the battery), on the newer model Subaru it completely discharged the battery which took me 3 days of daylight hours to recharge using a standard 2 amp charger. I also received a unit in which the glass was cracked in 3 places inside the package. In all fairness I did not order it through Amazon and the cracks don't effect the functioning of the unit;purely cosmetic damage. My advice is be careful with this thing. Even though it supposedly has discharge/overcharge protection built in, that's not the entire story. If your lighter circuit will not accept current it may trigger a discharge through another circuit probably to protect the electrical system from overloading and sparking(pure educated guess). I therefore have found this product to be of marginal use. It's cheap enough to not bother returning which is fine by the seller I'm sure.

Solar Battery Maintainer
I am very pleased & satisfied with my item/purchase. It was exactly what I've been looking for, and the shipping was very good..