For those of you wanting to add a Battery Back up to your repeater or base-station power supply...
Samlex makes an external battery backup box with the model number of BBM-12100. The online available User Manual for the box contains a lot of good information and a circuit diagram. So if you wanted to buy or build your own there's enough information to do both. Samlex makes a fairly decent line of external DC control/supply products and their pricing seems very fair. Here's a copy of the User Manaul: http://www.dcpower-systems.com/uploads/documents/BBM-12100-UserManual.pdf Just reading through the Manual will provide a lot of information to persons not having experienced this type of device/connection in the past. enjoy, s.