is this something I could use to charge a portable car battery? I would like to use it when remotely camping as I need to run a CPAP machine all night
305020
Yes, I use this to charge my motorcycle, it's a bit bulky but would be perfect for your application.
305021
Yes, It's really good at charging vehicle batteries. I've used it several times on my Ram when going remote for long terms.
1132044
Yes you can. As stated in my other responses, I used mine for all situations, from cell charger to running power strips to power my house. A separate battery charger is ideal, bc then the charger is mobile, not stuck with the vehicle. I would recommend the Die Hard Branded one from a local auto parts store, roughly $50, it will do AGM(deep cycle batteries), trickle charge and conventional batteries.
2077626
Hi, I'm sure you can but, it has to be plugged into a 120Volt supply when charging the batteries. When the boat is on a trailer parked somewhere it would work great.
1443902
This is essentially a battery pack that you can charge with a normal wall plug, car charger of solar pannel.Suggest you have a look at the manufacturer website for all the options and ones they have.I use this pack, but without solar pannel. Keeps the phones etc charged and light for couple days of camping.
191728
I used a car battery on it's own with out using the one in my vehicle when I was camping but the fan seems to draw very little from the battery, after my trip I hooked my smart charger to the battery and it didn't seem to really need much charging and I was running the fan every night for 3 nights.
1988782
I believe it would work just fine and it comes with voltage regulator. An inexpensive battery charger would work also if you keep the car near an electrical outlet.
75765
I actually used it to charge a dead battery. So if I understand the question, you can use it to maintain the battery or charge a dead one (it does take some time...12-24 hrs)
639721
No it is not a portable charger it's a car charger Bob check out www.FreeWireless.biz and learn how to ditch your bill
894445
I use this solar charger. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004FOEUI0Its cheap and very efficient and great when I need this battery for camping and stuff.
443573
No. However, if your asking this to enable to take the bed camping, you could use a power converter to use your car battery to convert from 12 volt dc to 120 ac. You just plug it into the converter. Very easy to do.
281232
hey Icepuck, did this work? Could you do same with a battery charger I am wondering? Im trying to run 12v lights off a generator and trying to find a solution... FF here too and rigging out a response trailer..
1557389
Yes. Our setup is consists of the charging panel, an RV battery, and a cigarette-outlet style inverter. With that, we had enough electricity to power our little pick-up camper AND charge cell phones and my laptop on a 3-day camping trip. Without the battery, though, I think you'd pretty much have a trickle charge that would take FOREVER to power up a laptop.
817235
I have only used this to run an air-compressor off of a battery charger. I don't know how it would work actually charging a car battery. Theoretically it could work but I don't think the wires are heavy enough. Have a fire extinguisher close at hand.
170132
The 450 watt inverter will easily handle the CPAP, which average about 40 watts. The battery should last the night, if nothing else is drawing off of it. The question is, how will you charge it the next day? Will you have a source of 120VAC? If, while camping, you run a generator during the day, that would do it. Shut down the generator at night, so people can sleep, and use this little guy to power the CPAP. That would be ideal!
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I have this unit for charging my HD Road King while on the road. If there is an available electric plug, it's great to be able to top off the battery overnight, especially if at a campground. One day, I forgot to turn off the lights, and the battery went dead. It took a solid 3 days to charge the battery due to the low output of this unit (my normal Battery Tender would have done it in a day).
4312
It's not very powerful. It's more for emergency battery charging when nothing but solar is available. I wouldn't use it as a primary source.
1576604
Hi there. For camping. and sleeping on the back of my pickup truck. Im using a 100 watt solar pannel connected to a 125 mah battery with a 1000 watt power inverter. I also use a 200 watt heater( smallest I could find) so I wont drain the battery so quick. in other words this one can be use as well in a setu up like mine or if you want to use it in your car battery you would need to connect the 1000 watt amp DIRECTLY from the car battery. DONOT connect it of cigaret outlet. it will blow the fuse since those dont allow to go up to 1000 watts. any questions just ask :)