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[QUOTE="TexKDX, post: 149161, member: 16276"] Helterskelter, If you want to construct your own battery pack, my suggestion is you hook up with your local radio control hobby shop. Lots of planes, boats, and cars are electric these days. These guys are used to making their own from available raw materials. Same for the local ham radio club. These guys are always putting together high power/low cost batterys for their handy-talkies. Funny you bring this up. I've been doing GPS research all week. The plan is to use a 12v DC power source and let the GPS internal or the adapter cable do the conversion for me to what the GPS needs. One source for batteries is your local home security supply shop. All alarm panels these days have a battery backup in them to keep from losing the program during power interruptions and provide functionality during interruptions. I picked up a 12v sealed gel cell the other day for a friend's '95 KTM 400RXC. The dealer wanted $76 for the battery. I got it for $11.26. It is small enough to fit in the airbox or sit in the bottom of a cyco active glove box no problem. I have not done the math yet (amp-hrs vs. 2 1.5 dry cells) but suspect the gel cell will last the life of 12-14 sets of dry cells. This should be enough to get me thru week long dual sport adventures. If you'd like to create a 12vdc souce on your bike, call Baja Designs and have them ship you a 12v regulator/rectifier. It will regulate current to 13.8vdc (charging voltage for a 12v battery - 12 volt systems are really 13.8 volt systems) from your existing stator. I'm a little foggy on the wiring, if it should go before or after your existing regulator and if both phases need to be charged on the input, so let me call them next week and talk it over. The unit costs about $25 from them. I've installed 2 of them with no problems and they ship them with their 12v DC kits. [/QUOTE]
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