Leaderboard

Hi, Just to put a 'downer' on the solar chargers, if you do a few calculations using Ohms law. At 12v and 1.5watts the output of that panel gives you 0.125amps which is 125milliamps. (Assuming 12v output from the panel, I'd expect it to be a little higher but even at 14v it's still 0.14amps) So, residual draw from the ECU and BCM would have to be less than 125milliamps for this solar charger to do anything other than just supply the ECU/BCM, therefore I'd recommend against the solar chargers and go for topping up with a proper battery charger (To be honest, the cheapest of the cheap are just as good. I *hate* that modern chargers are now 'smart' and will decide if they're going to top up your battery or not depending on it's voltage and some simple calculations on current/draw, but that's a separate rant!). So just get a cheapo mains battery charger from a supermarket or similar and plug it in now and again. That said, I do recommend the buttonmod resistor for the battery, it's not a difficult mod and there are lots of howto's floating around for it so have a read up too :-)