Have you thought of one of those solar trickle chargers? No electricity, no extension cords, just enough to keep an infrequently used battery topped up.
----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Cold related / electric cords Until someone reads the box of the trickle charger Tom. I do not know what is required for amps or watts. I am thinking it draws very little. Lee On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 09:59:28AM -0500, Tom Hodges wrote: > Lee, > > > > How many amps does your trickle charger require? > > > > Tom > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Lee A. Stone > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:20 AM > To: Blind Handyman > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Cold related / electric cords > > > > > > Is there a particular cord that one might reccomend to run > electricity maybe 50 feet from an outside outlet. I want to hook up a > tricle charge on a truck we have setting for right now. what I was > thinking is a standard lead or extension cord might not be weather proof > or is it better than using a piece of 12-2 or 14-2 whire/ romex wire? I > could also tag it into a whire I have coming out of the house which goes > into my generator box. that wire provides electricity which maintains a > trickle charge to a big truck battery that powers the starting of the > generator. maybe putting a splitter there ? got ideas feel free to > comment. thanks.Lee > > -- > People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world > citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. > -- Norman Cousins > Come and chat with me at #quietzone on irc.newnet.net > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. -- Norman Cousins Come and chat with me at #quietzone on irc.newnet.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
