Tamora Battery access and topping up charge

[theHotHead]

Hi all. I put a brand new battery in my Tamora in April and I noticed that, without driving it the voltage would drop to just below the level to allow it to start - in around 1.5 weeks. The car is parked on the road so I don't have access to power for a trickle charger.

What I would like to do is use one of those intelligent solar panels and leave it connected to the battery somehow. The car has a cover because the window seals are crap and it would be my luck that I don't cover it and it rains significantly and water starts to seep into the car. So my plan is to cut a hole in the car cover where the rear window is and leave the solar panel on the back shelf of the car, but I would need to get it connected to the battery. I know in the passenger footwell inside the cabin, if you remove the fibre glass panel covered with carpet, it exposes a red terminal to the battery but there doesn't seem to be one for the negative terminal.

I was wondering if anyone on the forum knows a way I can access both +ve and-ve battery terminals from inside the car ? The only other option is to connect a cable to the Anderson connector and feed that cable through the slightly lowered passenger window and then to the solar panel. It sounds a bit "A-Team ish" but I'm fed up having battery drama and not being able to drive the thing when I want to !

Thanks in advance.

Kevin

Edited by theHotHead on Wednesday 22 October 14:38

[Gladers01]

You could use the cigarette lighter socket next to the ashtray or pull down the carpet in the passenger footwell and spur off the main 100A fuse and use the earth stud nearby for a 0v, make sure the solar charger is correctly fused for trickle charging only just in case it develops a fault and goes short circuit.

[BEARDYB0Y]

Similar to you, I dont have electricity in my garage so I got a battery cut off switch wired into the footwell. My Tam sat for 4 months last winter with the key out and it started without any issue come spring. I can at least leave the doors unlatched though as its sat inside.

A previous owner had wired a battery charger through the wing and out of the interior fan airbox.

This means that when im not charging it, the wire just coils up and sits in the gap next to the heater box. If/when it needs a charge, I bring the Tam around to the house, I poke the plug through the bonnet vent and plug it in to a Ctek. (Just has to be a dry day)


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Not a full solution for you, but maybe a couple of useful suggestions to develop