Start simple...car battery, or borrow from your lawn tractor. Small charge controller selected for min RFI. If the kid can concentrate on a job, salvage 18650 cells from old laptop batteries and build packs of whatever size you need. "Dead laptop batteries usually have just a couple of bad cells and some shops will give/sell them cheap. Ebay has the plastic hardware for assembling packs without duct tape. Get single cell chargers from ebay for initial conditioning. There's a lot of potential learning here! 73, Wilson W4BOH ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected]
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