• Built-in car battery charger

    From SteveW@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 2 18:16:03 2025
    I have a couple of battery chargers, one of which is dumb and the other
    smart. The dumb one is, of course, of no use for keeping a battery
    charged and ready for use, while the smart one requires selecting the
    charging option when powered up and keeps its screen lit and beeps
    continuously when connected to a battery, but not the mains.

    I am looking at hard wiring a charger into my 57 year old Land Rover and feeding it via a caravan style fixed plug. Possibly with a second input
    for solar panels.

    Does anyone know of a suitable charger or charger design - 24V, smart,
    with zero drain from the batteries when not connected to the mains, a
    secondary input for solar panels and automatically starting and charging/maintaining, when mains is connected or the sun is out?

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