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the job with though. Hang on a second.” Dennis said and walked over to his prep shed and unlocked his door and retrieved his CRANK-A-WATT™.
    “Wow! Let me check that out. No isn’t that the neatest thing. So you just crank it huh?” Charles said trying the easy turn handle and studying the interface.
    “Cool, it has a inverter and what’s this a lawn tractor battery?” Dennis asked figuring out the little marvel.
    “Yea it’s a lawn mower battery, no need to purchase expensive deep cycle batteries with this. The engineers who designed it have specified the Interstate Brand (or equal), lead acid tractor-lawn-utility battery. Although they are not considered deep cycle batteries, they are very robust and good quality products. They operate in an excellent temperature range and are typically 145 cold cranking amps @ 12 volts, which is quite suitable for my Crank-a-Watt(TM) generator.” Dennis stated while watching Charles heft it to test its weight.
    “Dang! This thing is a lot lighter than I would of imagined” Charles said putting it back down on the table.
     
    “The Crank-A-Watt™ was designed to be portable, it weighs around 14 pounds so you can pick it up and go. It is also designed to sit on the edge of a table or counter around waist or chest high. This makes it easier to crank the handle. We could carry it down to your house or Tommy’s and charge up your cell phones etc. no problem. By the way are you getting any signal on your phones?” Dennis inquired stopping what he was doing so he could better assess the world’s current state of affairs.
     
    “Monica got through earlier so they have some cell towers still functioning, no internet though. How about you? You getting any signal?” Charles asked still inspecting the Crank-A-Watt.
     
    “I have one of those cheap cell phones that can’t get a signal back in these woods most days and my internet was satellite so the sun probably cooked it. I wonder if DSL is working in the cities. It might be seeing its on phone lines.’ Dennis said speculating.
     
    “Then you got to run your computer and your router etc.” Charles began.
    “Hey my Lap top works and that crank a watt can recharge the battery in it.” Dennis said grinning.
     
    “Neat, I will ask Monica if she knows anyone in town running DSL and maybe we can go try it out. I know you are dying to talk to your prepper buddies on the internet.” Charles commented.
    “That would almost be too good to be true, but if the internet is running I know a ton of preppers that have alternative energy methods to get on it.” Dennis said itching to try it.
     
    “Hell you can be a one man internet and phone charging café with that thing, or would you wear the charger out if you used it too much?” Charles asked.
     
    “Oh I doubt it would hurt it any because it's made with permanent magnets, the manufacturer includes a lifetime warranty on this generator. It will work just as well 100 years from now as it does today. Permanent magnets are made from Rare Earth Minerals that never wear out.” Dennis said proudly of his technologically advanced unit.
     
    “I assume you can crank it while your running something off the battery is that right? I mean that would extend the charge in the battery and give you more working time right.”? Dennis asked pondering possibilities.
     
    “Smart question, actually the key to using the Crank-A-Watt™ is to always try to keep the battery or batteries topped off. It has a gauge you can watch and also the ac inverter supplied with the unit will sound an alarm when the battery is too low to operate efficiently. Cranking while using it will help keep the battery from getting too low.  Basically you can look at it this way. Here is a list of tests they performed with a small battery and a big 12v battery. You can do both but for now we look at the small one. The test showed that a 13 w energy saver light bulb in lamp: without cranking on full battery (tester was