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Old 03-10-2018, 11:47 PM   #15 (permalink)
puddleglum
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Originally Posted by jakobnev View Post
If you can't charge the car where it is parked, then you need a portable way of transporting charge to your car.

Here is what I went with:
I just connected it to the car through both filaments of a dual filament headlight bulb, but a DC-DC converter would be better.
I did something similar with a e-bike battery this winter and went through a pair of cheap dc-dc converters off of eBay. It works pretty good but it could use a bigger converter. Disconnects easily to take in for charging. LED lights help as well.
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