TLeaf
Well-known member
12.27V for my little two-year old (this month!) SL w/ solar panel on this chilly Seattle day.
Even on a relatively cloudy Seattle day, I'd still think the solar panel could make a useful contribution to the SOC on the 12V battery; one of the reasons I'm glad my car came with one no matter how laughable the actual power output.
Point of interest => I work for an organization whose fleet had to move to AGM lead-acid batteries in order to account for parasitic power drains that were enough to drain a large capacity 24V system over the course of a weekend. We used to have to jump start roughly 1 out of every 10 vehicles come Monday morning, but changing to AGM batteries greatly reduced this #.
Even on a relatively cloudy Seattle day, I'd still think the solar panel could make a useful contribution to the SOC on the 12V battery; one of the reasons I'm glad my car came with one no matter how laughable the actual power output.
Point of interest => I work for an organization whose fleet had to move to AGM lead-acid batteries in order to account for parasitic power drains that were enough to drain a large capacity 24V system over the course of a weekend. We used to have to jump start roughly 1 out of every 10 vehicles come Monday morning, but changing to AGM batteries greatly reduced this #.