In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:25:42 -0500, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:24:40 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
wrote:

In Clare Snyder writes:

But thank you anyhow for the suggestions.
What do you want to connect to this 2 wire "speaker cable" cord????
Hopefully nothing that draws more than about 60 - 100 watts of power
and definitely nothing that should be grounded - - - -

I've actually got a real use for even an... 18 gauge 100 foot
cord. Namely a Battery Tender brand name Battery Tender
to reach my car outside the home.

(I'm actually using a series of 14 gauge)

It pumps out 3 amps at 12V, takes in about 80 watts...

(The newer ones are a bit more efficient 'cuz California)



Car outdoors? Put a solar tender on it -around here the chippies would
finish off the cord

Solar can work very well. I must have had a slow leak somewhere 20
years ago but once I put a solar cell on the dash, plugged into cig.
lighter, no more problems.

Back in 1967-68 it was a cold chicago winter. Used a 1-amp battery
charger all winter, and the car always started I kept the charger
inside the hood with only the cord coming out the grill, to make it easy
to plug in. Car was 6 volts but I had the charger set on 12 volts, and
it had a circuit breaker in it that looked like a clear little Xmas tree
light. It would trip after about 15 seconds and reset after 5, so that
was 3x a minute, 180 times an hour, 4500 times a day, 100 days = 450,000
times. Later I had to replace the selenium rectifier, but it still
works fine 50 years later.