Tom Walker wrote in a message to Maurice Kinal:

->  TW>  You would have to Multipuly the Battery size
->  TW> by a factor of One thousand Three hundred Forty Four to get Two
->  TW> Weeks.

-> Do you wish to place a wager?

TW> Well lets do soem Simple math. Since you have a minimum computer I
TW> was estimating 75 Wattsas a requirement. At 12 Volts that figures
TW> out to 6.25 Amps.

That's probably a little high.  I was browsing through an article in a
magazine a bit earlier this evening that was talking about using linux for
routers.  They estimated that a P200-MMX or equivalent MB in that kind of
use would draw maybe 30 watts...



 TW> Adn incideltly a Gell Cell is a Poor Battery to pick fro a possable
 TW> deep discharge operation. A Wet Cell is far better suited.

On what do you base this?

 TW> Incideltly I had the same thoughts as you. But I picked a Laptop as
 TW> the  Computer and use a 205 Ah Reserve capacity Size 31 Deep
 TW> Discharge rated Wet Cell for my Battery. That calculates into
 TW> nominaly 225 Continious operating Hours before recharging.  :-) 
 TW> :-)

Hm.  I hadn't seen any group 31 deep cycle batteries,  most of them were
either group 24 or group 27... 

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