Does anyone know if this be used to connect and charge a 12v car or leisure battery with a capacity of 50ah or more? Does it come with connectors?
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The Goal Zero line of solar panels all have special connectors. While they all play well, with each other, they aren't able to connect to generic batteries and devices without adapters. Fortunately, you can make your own, if you're handy. Or, you can order the adapters online. As far as charging batteries, they will "trickle charge" However, if you want to charge a 50ah (600 watts of power) battery with a Nomad 27 (27 watts), that would take over 22 hours (600 watts divided by 27 watts from the panel) of sunlight to fully charge a dead battery.
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Not exactly it does not have a charge controller. You will need one. It had a cigaret female plug. You can adapt to that. I use to charge batteries for my ham radio equipment. You might look at the deltran solar charger. They go buy battery tender.
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Good Day. Yes, you can connect this directly to your cars battery. thank YOU
1212180
This is really a small 12V battery in an easy-to-carry case. You charge it's battery first, then carry it to where-ever needed. When you connect it to another battery, I think of that almost like connecting 2 buckets of water together and watching the levels equalize between them. How much each ends up with depends on the sizes of each and although neither one will be totally empty, neither one ends up "full" from that. If you were to have this connected to another battery and plug in the charger, power will go to both batteries. Just realize that the "charger" probably only gives you 1/2 amp of power at 12V where it can take 12 hours just to charge the this little battery if drained, so connecting a car size battery could take 3-4 days to get charged from that. If you don't mind that time range it takes, it will work, otherwise to charge a car battery in under 12 hours will require a "car charger" labeled at least "5 amp" output or more.
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Yes, this battery can accept from 12V to 19V DC power for charging. If you have a solar panel with output voltage 12V ~ 19V, you can use it to recharge this battery. The charge port connector size is 5.5x2.1mm. Best regards.
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yes it can be used with a 12 volt car battery. I use a rechargeable wheel chair battery and it works great
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Instapark's website states that the 12 volt outlet can be used for charging 12 volt batteries. I haven't personally tried it so I cannot speak from experience.
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You would probably want to add this unit in PARALLEL to any other charging sources to maintain a 12VDC output, but adding current (Amps) to the charging circuit. Do NOT charge 12VDC batteries above 13.8 Volts! They can explode at higher voltages.This unit is made for portability (backpacking, bug-out kit). It can directly charge portable (HT) radios with a cigarette lighter socket (optional) and the lighter plug charger cord that came with the radio. This is for radios that allow charging installed batteries from an automotive 12VDC lighter socket.
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Car chargers are designed for 12 volt systems. This should work fine provided the connecting port for the device matches.
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Good question. I would ask the manufacturer I had a question of them once and they were fairly prompt in answering. With mine I only need to connect to the batteries on my pick up camper and charge away!
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This is used to charge a battery pack thru your cigarette lighter.DC to DC charging. Ex.600 amp jump starter pack. To charge that type of pack you need a 12 volt charger
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This outlet does not have a fuse of any kind, so it will provide as much current as the cord from your battery allows. Please note that this is not a USB connection.
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If you are asking "can I use this to power a battery charger" the answer depends on what the charger needs for power. There should be a label somewhere on the charger listing volts and amps. If the label lists 12VDC and no more than 1 Amp or 1000 ma then this power supply will work. If you are asking"will this work for my 12V battery charger" the answer is no. You need a power supply rated at 14.5V to charge a 12V lead acid battery.
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I don't know. I don't have a car battery connector and haven't tried, sorry. Maybe another person can answer it. I would think if you get the correct power cord you should be able to.
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I just threw a 12 volt car battery in the bed with the wing nut connectors. It should have a 50 amp inline. I have survived so far without it.
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This is really for charging 12v batteries. Not aboe to directly charge laptops, etc, becuse the output in 12V from the controller. We use this on our RV to charge 4 marine batteries with the 30AMP controller, and run inverters to run appliances. It would be overkill to use this with inverters just for basic recharging, but it CAN be done.
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Correct! you can hook up directly to a 12volt battery. It also(mine did)comes with a lighter plug as an extra option but i never use that...I just run it off of marine type batteries which i recharge when needed.
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You can have this connected to as big a battery (or bank of batteries) as you wish, just keep in mind that this can only handle the 7 amps going thru it (for charging or going to the "load" connection, but there's only one "battery" connection point).