{"id":1380,"date":"2023-08-09T16:01:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2023-08-16T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:32:12","slug":"fixed-a-harbor-freight-solar-battery-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/fixed-a-harbor-freight-solar-battery-charger\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed a Harbor Freight Solar Battery Charger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Repair Solder Pad on Harbor Freight Solar Battery Charger with Copper Tape\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4i4yHIi3fqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In case this is broken in the future: the video is basically a repair of a cheap solar float charger from Harbor Freight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The positive lead and it&#8217;s solder pad had lifted away from the backing metal that the solar cells are built on. I couldn&#8217;t build up a new solder pad on the large piece of metal (Google searching indicates this normally takes a small spot welder or a special type of flux), but I had a roll of copper tape sitting around that ended up working well-enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I stuck a small piece of copper tape to the larger metal surface, applied a small bit of solder, then reattached the positive wire. A test of continuity showed connection through whatever makes this tape stick. I vigorously applied hot glue, then tested it, and put it all back together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a few weeks and this is still working fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case this is broken in the future: the video is basically a repair of a cheap solar float charger from Harbor Freight. The positive lead and it&#8217;s solder pad had lifted away from the backing metal that the solar cells are built on. I couldn&#8217;t build up a new solder pad on the large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moods","category-techy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}