Shore Power Alternative

[kullivan]

Hi all,

Looking for some advice and input as to how to charge our ambulance's batteries. Currently, we do not have a station or solution for shore power and rely on charging the batteries when the engine is running (we park the ambulances curbside, and we cannot run a shorepower cable across the sidewalk <_<). Does anyone know of any alternative solutions so that we can charge our vehicles other than killing our engine in high idle?

Thanks.

 

[Bullets]

Streamlight SolarStream or some other solar panel. PDs in the area just started adding them and the MICU have had hard ones for years

 

[socalmedic]

before we had shore power at every station we had solar panels installed on the roofs. worked great on clear days but we still had a lot of dead batteries when we got dispatched to those 6am calls...

I would say the best is to use a combination of solar panels and a dedicated battery bank for equipment and one of ignition, the equipment may die but the engine will start and you can boot the computer after you are en-route to the call.