What did you do with your Range Rover today

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kermit_rr said:
More modern cars like the l322 have a switched live for the ciggy lighter so not much good :(
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My lighter sockets are permanently live. As is the little socket in the boot. Do you know if there Is there a solar powered trickle charger that doesn't need a mains charge? Oh and if so would it feed the battery via cigarette lighter. Some sort of one way system blocking the panel from drawing power from the car?
 
Get a solar panel that has a regulated output, something north of 12.6VDC, you don't need to worry about the panel drawing power from the car as they are not capable of that.
The one I have is very similar to this. Amazon product
 
roythebus said:
Most of the cigarette lighter socket are wired into the battery via a fuse so they are permanently live. So yes, plug the 12volts from the charger into there. The other end goes into the mains. (just in case you really are thick as you make the claim to be :) )
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The cig lighters on all my cars only operate with the ignition on so no use for solar charging.
 
gold rover said:
My lighter sockets are permanently live. As is the little socket in the boot. Do you know if there Is there a solar powered trickle charger that doesn't need a mains charge? Oh and if so would it feed the battery via cigarette lighter. Some sort of one way system blocking the panel from drawing power from the car?
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A 20 watt solar panel and a charge controller is what you need, or maybe being so far north a 50 watt panel. I plug in via the trailer socket which is easier than an internal socket. There is no drain from the car to the panel. I have solar chargers for all my vehicles, they will not charge a flat battery but do keep the batteries nicely topped up. Panels and controllers are available for very little on AliExpess.
Edit, looking at the daylight hours in winter in Scotland, I think a 100 watt panel is needed to be effective all year round.
 
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Otto's lighter socket is definitely switched - '97 P38.
I linked in to the permanent live for the release in the lower tailgate and put an earth to a bolt back there for my trickle connection.
 
Scotiawhiskers said:
Otto's lighter socket is definitely switched - '97 P38.
I linked in to the permanent live for the release in the lower tailgate and put an earth to a bolt back there for my trickle connection.
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It's better to use the permanent live located behind the P38 left side trim panel for the trailer hook up, it's a proper fused supply and easily accessible. There is also a ground wire there too.
 
I'd go for something like this and change the ends to a cig lighter plug. Reviews are good too,

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Datatek said:
A 20 watt solar panel and a charge controller is what you need, or maybe being so far north a 50 watt panel. I plug in via the trailer socket which is easier than an internal socket. There is no drain from the car to the panel. I have solar chargers for all my vehicles, they will not charge a flat battery but do keep the batteries nicely topped up. Panels and controllers are available for very little on AliExpess.
Edit, looking at the daylight hours in winter in Scotland, I think a 100 watt panel is needed to be effective all year round.
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I found a 25w ok in summer for the wifes old Corsa but needed 50w in winter. The car was parked in the shade though where as @gold rover will have unobstruced views on her vast estate, and the butler can clear the snow off them in winter :)
 
backinblack said:
There is a cheaper one but no reviews and the panel is smaller. Plus by the time you've searched, ordered, payed for delivery from other suppliers £76 ain't too bad.

EDIT: and a few quid for the cig plug
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A good option for goldrover.
I tend to use Aliexpress or TEMU, being a poor pensioner time searching costs nothing and I have to count every penny!
 
backinblack said:
I found a 25w ok in summer for the wifes old Corsa but needed 50w in winter. The car was parked in the shade though where as @gold rover will have unobstruced views on her vast estate, and the butler can clear the snow off them in winter :)
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Thank you so much for considering the butler. Sadly in these days of austerity we have reduced the estate to a mere 1000 hectares, so he has slightly less to oversee. You are indeed correct that the Golden Girl has unobstructed views. Which will work wonderfully with a solar panel 😁
 
gold rover said:
Thank you so much for considering the butler. Sadly in these days of austerity we have reduced the estate to a mere 1000 hectares, so he has slightly less to oversee. You are indeed correct that the Golden Girl has unobstructed views. Which will work wonderfully with a solar panel 😁
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One has to consider the wellfare of ones staff these days :)
 
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