RW Salnick wrote in news:eg428g$3le$1
@gnus01.u.washington.edu:

your battery
would run down eventually, because each day you take more out of it to
run the lights than you put back the next day with the solar panel.


Wouldn't, in that case, it be more correct to say, "your battery would
sulfate eventually"?.....

It's not nice to ever leave them in a partially-discharged state over time,
which would be FAR more expensive than cranking the engine to recharge,
properly, then let the panel top them off slowly during the day.....



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