Portable 12 volt power

[abigdiesel]

I ran into a situation(my plug in spotlight) where I needed 12 volt power but had no way to carry a car battery into the woods and came up with this setup.  I just used one of my dewalt 14.4 cordless tool batteries, a cigarette lighter receptacle and a little shoulder bag to carry it in.  The receptacle had blade connectors that hooked right up to the battery with no problem and a little electrical tape holds it together. 

Now I can plug anything that uses a regular 12 volt plug into it and use it anywhere.  I have used it to charge my cell phone, run electric fillet knife, spotlight duty, etc.  It isn't a high amp output battery, but it works great for what I am doing. 

The battery is 14.4 volt, which is pretty close to what the outlet on a car is. 

Anyone have any ways of improving this, or have anything similar that they have been using?

[Lon371]

 That a great Idea. Thanks for the tip.

Lonny

[steg]

Thats alot lighter than the setup I'm using and it seems like it would serve the purpose, I'm figguring that it would hold a charge for as long as you need it.

The set up that I've been using is a 12 volt hot start type battery from the Chinese place, Home Depot, it's a good unit, the kid borrowed it to start an old Dodge slant six he had setting around for a while, it spun that starter for a good 5 minutes before the car started, and it still had half a charge left in it, I never thought it would be that good, have it for 6 years now and it's still ticking, at the time it was around 60 dollars, it is a little on the heavy side though, for easy carry I don't think your set-up can be beat!........................steg