Originally Posted By: Desperado
Could something like this 12V cooler be powered by something like this solar battery tender?

Place the cooler in the trunk, and run the wiring to the PV in the rear window of the car?

Kinda a stretch I know, but an idea...


I've had a couple of those little 12v coolers, they draw 2-3A continuous and a 1.8W battery tender / 12v is 150mA. If you bought over a dozen of those battery tenders and paralleled them and had perfect sunlight and a small cooler it would work.

I used it when my wife had to take insulin shots. I bought the second battery tray for the diesel model of my truck and put in a second battery and isolator and had the cooler running off the second battery.


Edited by Eugene (08/30/09 06:40 PM)