steelespike
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- Apr 26, 2002
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I've been going to post this for a long time.
i was having a little trouble with the aged garden tractor battery in my lawn tractor losing charge over storage in the summer when cutting the yard slows and over winter (north east). So figured try one of those 1/4 watt solor maintainer.
I think this is batteries 5th summer. In the summer it is shaded a lot by a tree but doesn't need much to stay alive.
It holds over the winter just fine starting fine with no boost or fiddling in the spring.
The panel is hung on a couple of screws propped toward the sun pretty much exposed to all weather.
I replaced the wire plugin end with a couple of small charger clips. I know its doing the job because I forgot to hook up a couple of times and it tried but couldn't crank.And that was in the summer when cutting wasn't needed much,not winter.
i was having a little trouble with the aged garden tractor battery in my lawn tractor losing charge over storage in the summer when cutting the yard slows and over winter (north east). So figured try one of those 1/4 watt solor maintainer.
I think this is batteries 5th summer. In the summer it is shaded a lot by a tree but doesn't need much to stay alive.
It holds over the winter just fine starting fine with no boost or fiddling in the spring.
The panel is hung on a couple of screws propped toward the sun pretty much exposed to all weather.
I replaced the wire plugin end with a couple of small charger clips. I know its doing the job because I forgot to hook up a couple of times and it tried but couldn't crank.And that was in the summer when cutting wasn't needed much,not winter.
