On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:43:05 -0600, m II wrote
(in message Jmekd.140710$9b.60969@edtnps84):

The Axelrods wrote:

Go for the deep cycle marine battery.


Be careful here. many (most?) marine batteries are the victims of
fraudulent advertising. They are not deep cycle.

It's like the 17 inch monitor with the 15.1 inch view area, or the
Sears 5 horsepower electric motor that runs on 12 amps 120 volts.


http://www.windsun.com/Batteries/Bat...rine,%20and%20
Deep-Cycle%20Batteries


http://snipurl.com/aiwk



mike

From what has been said over the years, the best battery is (actually are
iirc they are 6v) the golf cart batteries.

The suggestion made when we were discussing this was go out to 2 or 3 golf
courses and see exactly what brand/type they're using.

Also, I wonder if it wouldn't be worthwhile to buy a couple of them ($20 or
so) and see how long they'll last. Just because they won't do a great job of
onercoming inertia doesn't mean that they can't do an excellent job of
pushing (comparatively speaking) electrons into radio gear.

Solar should recharge just fine. The brand name I've seen rated best is
"Kyocera". A guy here has done a /lot/ of comparisons but he stopped cold
after getting his first Kyocera because he didn't see any reason to keep
looking.


Gray/Mississippi