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Re: Power for an outdoor project

You should also consider having a generator. Depending on where it is relative to the possible battery charging locations, it may wind up being less work. We've gone with solar for our trailer power (which mostly runs lights and charges batteries), but then we have ten to eleven hours of daylight at our latitude during build season; your latitude may vary.

Edit, after re-reading OP and response:
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Tips for mounting the battery holder on the bench?
Under the bench, for the charger/regulator/inverter as well as the batteries. Out of the way and (even more importantly) out of the weather.

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A generator would make them cranky.
Cranky!

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Is wind power an option? If it's near moving water, that could be an option as well.
+1, or perhaps +1k... What free energy is available in your outdoor environment?
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