How To Charge Batteries Using A Solar Garden Light
charge batteris with solar garden light.I frequent a blog www.thesurvivalistblog.net I’ve picked up some extremely valuable info and advice over there and this one resulted in an experiment I tried my self. It never dawned on me that the 4 buck solar garden lights that walmart sells,have rechargeable batteries un them. AA,s no less. It was a poster named “riverrider” that told me about this and sure enough when I went to the garden dept. In wallworld to find these.I popped one open and its a common rechargeable AA battery. It’s a great thing to know that,in the event of no electricity,you can still charge a battery with something as simple as a chinamart solar garden light. In the language of my childhood locale,it’s wicked cool!!!
the spikes make wicked plastic chivs hahhaha
@therandomdot i recharged completely depleted AA batteries in one day of sunshine. i ran a 6 watt florescent for 8 hours on those 2 batteries.i dont know where you live but maybe you dont get as much sunshine as i do here. plus,,,they are only 3 bucks at walmart. itwas an experiment to see if you could use tghose batteries for a flashlight or anything else. no big loss if it didnt work,which it did.
The rechargeable batts that come with these lights usually suck, so buying quality rechargeables is a good idea. However, I’m not sure if the solar lights are powerful enough to fully charge powerful AA batts (like 2500mah). Repurposing solar lights is fine if you can get them free or cheap. But, even a cheap set can cost $30 new. For that much, you could just buy a real solar batt charger on amazon.
@bctruck i was wandering if someone took the cells of the assembly and linked a few together would they charge up something bigger?I would be nice to be able to power a cb radio in the woods.
@MobyDave1583 well i went to walmart today to buy more of these, i expected to find them cheap since they are an out of season item now. not!!! no sale so i didnt buy any.
Just this week I thought about using the solar lights for recharging bateries. It would be great for camping with as well.
@montagecrazy4u you are the only one to recognize my tools of death and destruction. i take it you wont be accepting the invitation to join me in my workshop?
All those tools look like you use them to kill people
@bctruck – Good, ’cause to drill a hole you know the best tool, right?
A trowel
@tnjeffofalltrades good god man! thats insanity! no i use them as punches. they are the perfect diamter to hammer out pins and such. of course im typing this with bloody stumps.
did you drill the holes in the board with those CCI’s in the background?
@simonfrmgb hello simon! the anti christ is still draining me financially but i keep waking up thinking i may have dreamed the whole volvo buying thing and find myself back in my kenworth happily riding down the road.
@philmcc3 hi phil! no im afraid i wouldnt even make the C team! LOL
brad are you sure you was never part of the A team .
another neat idea,you never cease to amaze buddy.btw,how is the anti-christ?
@bctruck
Yea…..but what the heck would I do with my time? I’d be worrying about how everyone was messing things up for me when I got back to work.
@bctruck I know i would be too lazy to make a contraption like that
@skoal22005 thanks!
@saj12100 well thankyou for saying so!
@cipmars ive used a 5/8 inch rod driven into the ground. it will be there for a while.
Good idea. Make sure the rig is properly driven into the ground, otherwise it might fall over when it rains.
@bctruck Ha Ha Ha no it’s not my grave I just formed up a coping for a girl that me and the wife went to school with. She lives about 150 miles from here and I just told her that I would take care of it. I did it for free and it ended up taking me all week. When I die I told my wife to just tell everybody that I was dead and let the authorities figure out what to do with the body. That’s my burial plan.
@SustenanceNCovering you have your own graveyard? now thats what i call prepping from start to finish!
@abushua you need a vacation! two years of work is not good for you.
I just paid a man to pour some concrete in the grave yard for me and he told me that he got a bunch of these and when the electricity goes out he just brings them in the house.