Hi All,
Not sure if this will be of interest to anyone but inspired by an email exchange with Andy Willis, I've installed a Halfords solar battery maintainer on my garage roof and thought I'd mention it on here.
Like many of you, I guess, my 996 has sat in the garage for much of lockdown slowly flattening its battery. My garage is away from the house with no power so although I have a CTEK charger, I have to get the battery out of the car and bring it into the house to charge it. I haven't been able to keep it charged and it has gone flat a couple of times. Andy suggested I could try one of these maintainers: the Halfords one seemed to have decent reviews online (as long as you don't expect it to actively charge the battery, which I don't!) so it has been on the car for a few days now. It's too early to tell whether it'll be any use in the long term, but I am getting about 20V coming out of it during the day, so my fingers are firmly crossed...
Not sure if this will be of interest to anyone but inspired by an email exchange with Andy Willis, I've installed a Halfords solar battery maintainer on my garage roof and thought I'd mention it on here.
Like many of you, I guess, my 996 has sat in the garage for much of lockdown slowly flattening its battery. My garage is away from the house with no power so although I have a CTEK charger, I have to get the battery out of the car and bring it into the house to charge it. I haven't been able to keep it charged and it has gone flat a couple of times. Andy suggested I could try one of these maintainers: the Halfords one seemed to have decent reviews online (as long as you don't expect it to actively charge the battery, which I don't!) so it has been on the car for a few days now. It's too early to tell whether it'll be any use in the long term, but I am getting about 20V coming out of it during the day, so my fingers are firmly crossed...