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Solar Trickle Charging

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#1 · (Edited)
For Christmas I received four 1.5v solar automotive trickle chargers- the kind you'd find in Harbor Freight. They actually do charge up smaller items (cell phones, laptops, etc.) Has anyone had the gumption to connect a few to the IMA to trickle charge it over the course of a sunny day in a parking lot while at work?

Clearly they're small panels- about the same size as the footprint of a loaf of bread- and clearly they wouldn't provide a whole heck of a lot of juice. I'm just wondering if they'd have the cumulative power to kick the IMA SOC display up a few ticks over the course of 8 or 10 hours of sunlight.
 
#3 ·
Need a lot more than 160Voc. More like 220V to get any current to flow into battery that can be ~168V resting.

Someone has indeed done this! I'll find the thread...