- For use indoors or inside your vehicle conected to the power outlet/cigarette lighter
- Extends battery life using the sun’s power
- Reverse current protection (won’t drain your battery at night)
- Maintanes the charge on your vehicle’s battery when not in use
- Comes with cigarette lighter connection and alligator clips
Amazon.com Product Description
Designed to protect against natural battery discharge and electronic drain in cars, light trucks, vans, ATVs, PWCs, small boats, snowmobiles, riding mowers, tractors and SUVs, the Coleman solar 1.5-watt 12-volt battery charger sends a constant maintenance level charge to the battery to insure against dead batteries. The solar charger provides an immediate charge when exposed to daylight, even on cloudy day. The charger is plug-in-play compatible for quick… More >>
Coleman CL-100 72000 1.5-Watt 15-Volt Solar Panel Battery Trickle Charger
I hard wired this into my vehicle,velcroed it to my dash. Works great! Had a problem ,too many accessories and not enough driving. Now battery is always freshly topped off.
Rating: 5 / 5
The product description states clearly that this little device can be used in all weather conditions.
When unpacked, this does not appear to be the case, and when you read the instructions, on the bottom of the page in small print it says that the product in NOT to be used outdoors unprotected!
For a device that is meant to keep a battery ‘topped up’, typically devices that are not near shelter (snow blowers, tractors, automatic entrance gates, etc) this seems like a fatal design flaw!
Other than that – the device seems to work fine as a trickle charger.
Rating: 2 / 5
This product was purchased to maintain the charge on a battery in a vehicle that is seldom driven. It works fine. Please note that it is not designed to charge a battery that is low, only maintain the charge. If you need a charger, consider a model that produces more power (watts). The unit is fairly small and has an LED to indicate it is producing power. I would buy it again.
Rating: 5 / 5
this doesn’t charge at all i bought to charge a 12 volt battery- then when i got it found its only a maintainer. FALSE ADVERTISING
Rating: 1 / 5
I almost didn’t buy this because of the 1-star reviews — but then I noticed those reviewers were just ignorant. (Uninformed Amazon reviewers?!, gosh what a shock…). I used a fuse tap to install an always-on 12V cigarette lighter adapter in my SUV for this panel. The 1 or 1.5 volt trickle is enough to keep my battery topped off indefinitely, even after 2 and 3 weeks of just sitting in the driveway (whereas my battery would sometimes be almost dead after sitting for a week). Almost bought the 5-volt unit for twice as much, but this is half the size and turned out to work just fine.
Rating: 5 / 5