Storing And Long-Term Parking Of Your Vehicle In Winter - Ten-Haaft SunMover Operating Instructions Manual

Storing and long-term parking of your vehicle in winter

The battery is often removed or at least disconnected when a vehicle is put into
storage for the winter or is parked for an extended period. When doing this, please
make sure that you take into account the points below which relate to the use of
an automatic solar system.
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Your SunMover® uses a microprocessor which, among other things, continuously
calculates the current sun position on the basis of GPS data. Of course, this requires
a current in the region of a few mA. As you need to connect the SunMover® direct-
ly to the battery, the system will not be isolated from the battery by any isolating
switch fi tted to the battery circuit.
Accordingly, if you park your vehicle in a (naturally) dark garage for several week
or for the winter, the solar panel will not be able to recharge the battery at all, but
at the same time the electronics will still draw a minimal current. We therefore re-
commend that, in this case, the battery should either be buffered with a designated
trickle-charging device, or it should be fully disconnected.
If you store your vehicle out in the open during the winter, then the SunMover® will
keep recharging the battery during daylight hours by a small amount even when
it is in rest mode, so there should be no deep-discharging of the battery. Of course
you will need to turn off any other consumers, as the yield from the retracted solar
panel is lower in winter than it is in summer. So, if you keep your vehicle out in the
open during the winter months, leave the SunMover® connected to the battery and
in rest mode.
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