rev up your engines
today since the sun is shining, we're
gonna see if solar battery chargers
actually work on your car,
this particular one comes from a company
called Suner Power or perhaps they call
it Sunner power from the Sun, I don't
know either way it's spelled the same way, it's
very easy to set up, you just stick them
inside the windshield, lick them a little
then you take the business end and stick
it into a power outlet, let's say you're
going camping or something for a week,
you don't want the battery to go bad or
you're at the airport for weeks, these
things could come in pretty handy
because modern cars have a lot more
battery drain than old cars did, many
modern cars if they sit for a couple
weeks
they might drain the battery and might not
even start when you come back, and the
reason for that is because modern cars
have so many electronics on them even
the air conditioning system is run by
computers, they will drain your battery
just sitting there as they're running a
bunch of these computers and especially
running a security system, like this
fancy security system, and putting one of
these in can prevent that, but do they
actually work, we'll just connect positive
to positive and negative to negative, and as
you can see it's charging 16 volts 15.9
now it'll vacillate with the Sun but it
does charge, now realize that it's a slow
charger, this is 6/10 of an amp that it's
doing right now because it's behind the
clouds, but let's see what happens when
the clouds come out, it's still cloudy
will wait till it comes out, of course you
know the clouds will stay out now that
I'm filming but in a few minutes the Sun
should come back out again
here comes the sun and now the amps are coming
up, now you can see it leveled off at like
1.1 amps, that's not all that much power
but this is a trickle charger so it
gives a little bit of charge to keep the
battery from discharging, you could
charge a dead battery with it, but it
would take days to get a flat battery
completely charged with one of these,
these are more to keep the charge up, and
this particular model is not waterproof
so that's why it has the suction cups and
goes inside the windshield,
anyway no one can steal it that way, you
don't want it on the outside
anybody can come by and grab it, now I've
been testing this thing out for a while
I have to say, it works pretty good, you know
it puts out a small trickle charge
and it'll keep your battery charged up
if you're gonna have your vehicle
sitting anywhere for a long period of
time, and it is rather ironic that it
started raining while I was talking
about a solar battery charger, now this
is mechanic Monday so I'll be giving
away this solar battery charger, to have
a chance to win place a clean
non-defensive comment on the YouTube
comments below, and the winner will be
randomly chosen by computer to get a
free solar battery charger for their
vehicle, so if you never want to miss
another one of my new car repair videos,
remember to ring that Bell!
