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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Equipment => Ice Fishing With Electronics => Topic started by: FishGut on Feb 10, 2018, 07:15 PM
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Anyone experiment with 12 volt solar panels to keep batteries charged? The ones from the feed store geared to keep electric fences popping seem like overkill.
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Google and get awakened about solar power. A 12 volt 15 watt panel under the most ideal conditions ( pointed directly at the sun all day long) will give you 1 (one) amp at best. For the early morning and late afternoon hours, it's less. If you have even a partially cloudy day, it's less. Even a 30 watt panel pointed straight south at roughly a 50 degree angle might get you 2 amps for a couple hours. Get snow on the panel, you know where this is going.