On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:38:01 -0700 (PDT), wrote:



I was thinking 3 x 4.5V = 13.5V, not far off the float voltage of a
12V battery and as the solar panel isn't going to be dumping 5A in
there it may not pick up much above say 14V. I was thinking these
lights may well deal with that as-is and if not a series diode or two
might just take the edge off it?

way too high a string voltage,

Why?

and you've not taken account of the
wide range of lead acid voltage.

I thought I had?

Bu this has been explained already.

It has, and?

T i m