trickle charging via cigarette lighter

**bma2** · 08-08-2010, 11:32 AM

Can I trickle charge my 2000 Z28 thru the cigarette lighter? It frequently sits for a month undriven.

Thanks, bma2

**sunsetorangess** · 08-08-2010, 01:54 PM

Yepp, you sure can.
J

**rkvette** · 08-08-2010, 02:33 PM

think you can get that option, on all 2011 corvettes !! i bought a battery tender,for my zo6's corvettes, many years ago... its surely needed on these corvettes that dont go, as a daily driver.. rkvette

**konigandy6** · 08-09-2010, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by rkvette

think you can get that option, on all 2011 corvettes !! i bought a battery tender,for my zo6's corvettes, many years ago... its surely needed on these corvettes that dont go, as a daily driver.. rkvette

Agreed... these new Vettes that spend a majority of their life sitting, have terrible battery issues.

**KMdef9** · 08-09-2010, 12:50 PM

I would as long as it has a shutoff/kill switch to it. Nothing wrong with charging it from the opposite end of things, just more chances of things to go wrong (loose connections/shorting/fire).

I have a marine battery charger that sits out in the weather with the car, has a microcontroller shutoff switch. Wire is ran through the lower nostrils of the hood, nothings left unlocked/opened.