Solar Charger for Diesel Gennie???

Dglfellah40

The Battery has died for starting a larrge Diesel Gennie.
Was just wondering if it is Viable to hook up a small Solar Charger to new Batter to act as trickle charger...Am not too good with at remembering to start the bloody thing on rainy days...

freddyuk

Easy to do with a small solar panel producing 18 volts and 5 amps with a solar controller suitably sized with some proper cable, connectors and fuses.

Stoner

there is a little trickle charger that costs about £12 from www.cpc.co.uk
ex conversion and delivery

I bought one for a lawnmower and it seemed to do the trick, I left the panel in the shed window, and it had clamps like a set of jump leads, very easy to use.

edit,

they seem to have increased in cost or are not stocked anymore

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=411+2005+206344&Ntk=gensearch&Ntt=trickle+charger&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial

I'm sure there are Irish options