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I don't drive my 6v '48 truck all of the time I would like a small 6v solar tender/maintainer to throw on the dash when parked. All of the ones I am seeing charge up to 12v and I believe I need to stay below 7v?
Here are a couple I was looking at.
The two NoCo products would be used together.
NoCo 6V regulator

NoCo solar battery maintainer

BatteryTender 5W solar panel with controller

Any opinions or experiences are welcome, Thanks.

A lot of gate game feeders are 6 volt and maintained by solar.
Amazon.com and sporting goods vendors have a model for almost every budget.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&am...b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_9magp63yz5_b

So I decided to go with the NOCO 2.5w solar battery charger + maintainer along with the NOCO 6V regulater.
My truck is not stored in direct light, I have the panel suction cupped to the windshield, this was the view out the windshield at 10;00am, I was getting 5.486 volts from the panel at that time. Half an hour later I was getting 6.468 volts.
So far I am really happy with this $39 investment. I like the idea of maintaining my battery during the winter in the truck, with no effort other than connecting the panel clamps to the battery. I don't even have the battery disconnected.

Just a quick update I Love my solar maintainer! My '48 had a fully charged battery all winter. With the 6V regulator removed the panel does 12v which is handy on my other vehicles as well

Curt,

Thanks for taking the effort to describe the system you purchased. It looks like you found a good solution. I have a very similar storage condition and will look into this. Is the solar panel in your windshield?

Paul

Paul here is a picture of the panel attached to the windshield with the supplied suction cups. Windshield picture