Hey guys, first thing is to say I have the same electrical knowledge as a spoon, however, any help or advice would be appreciated beyond the realms of the said spoon's emotional spectrum.
I want to start a little project, geared around the fact that I hate getting into my car in the winter as its freezing. I would like to set up a remote heater in my car. I haven't yet decided on how it will be remotely activated, possibly infrared, maybe even get my raspberry pi involved or my phone, but thats further down the line.
I want the system to be independent of the car, so that it could be transferred between vehicles and in the event of selling the vehicle, I get to keep my genius contraption (which you are all about to tell me won't happen).
Ignoring the idea of remote activation, just concentrating on powering the device, I would like to use a solar trickle charger to connect to a rechargeable battery that would power a 12v ceramic heater.
This is the heater: http://www.maplin.co.uk/in-car-ceramic-heater-48775
Here is a solar trickle charger? http://www.maplin.co.uk/solar-powered-12v-12w-battery-charger-217850
The thing I have absolutely no idea about is amps, watts, volts etc.
So would this solar charger successfully power a battery (throughout the day before) - that I could use to run the ceramic heater and what sort of battery would I need as I know that the ceramic heater runs off of 12v but I don't know about the amps or the wattage.
Hopefully this is enough of an initial explanation. Thank you for any help and please forgive my ignorance.
I want to start a little project, geared around the fact that I hate getting into my car in the winter as its freezing. I would like to set up a remote heater in my car. I haven't yet decided on how it will be remotely activated, possibly infrared, maybe even get my raspberry pi involved or my phone, but thats further down the line.
I want the system to be independent of the car, so that it could be transferred between vehicles and in the event of selling the vehicle, I get to keep my genius contraption (which you are all about to tell me won't happen).
Ignoring the idea of remote activation, just concentrating on powering the device, I would like to use a solar trickle charger to connect to a rechargeable battery that would power a 12v ceramic heater.
This is the heater: http://www.maplin.co.uk/in-car-ceramic-heater-48775
Here is a solar trickle charger? http://www.maplin.co.uk/solar-powered-12v-12w-battery-charger-217850
The thing I have absolutely no idea about is amps, watts, volts etc.
So would this solar charger successfully power a battery (throughout the day before) - that I could use to run the ceramic heater and what sort of battery would I need as I know that the ceramic heater runs off of 12v but I don't know about the amps or the wattage.
Hopefully this is enough of an initial explanation. Thank you for any help and please forgive my ignorance.