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<font size=3>Of course if you want a really long run time you can buy 6v
golf cart batteries and put them in a plastic tool box designed for
mounting in a truck. Wired in parallel two give 220 amp hours at
12volts. Cheap ones run about $50 apiece. I use two of these
to provide power for my stations ac needs and I have a 750 watt inverter
that will run the refrigerator or several compact florescent
lights. The setup here is 220 amp hours as above. Even better
would be a couple of Trojan L-16's but that gets pricey.<br><br>
With a good charge on them they will run my fridge for 6 hours. In
actual use I only run the fridge when I am charging the batteries. Two
hours will refreeze the freezer compartment. The system worked well
during the 5 days we were without power during the last hurricanes My
frozen foods never got above 25 degrees. While it is not the most
efficient method I used the car to charge and run the fridge via a
jumperset made from #1 welding cable. If I did not have so many
trees I would put up some solar panels and add a charge
controller.<br><br>
In shack is a 95 amp hour AGM that can be paralleled with the above if
needed but is normally separate and floats in parallel with the 30 amp
power supply. <br><br>
PS: to stay on topic this system also ran a temporary APRS digi and
laptop UI-View station since my main one was down.</font></body>
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