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If you’re reading this right now, it’s a safe bet that you couldlook in any direction and witness the ever-present nature of electricity.It is common knowledge that batteries have two polarities, represented by theplus (+) sign for positive and the minus (-) sign for negative. Most peopleknow that the battery is what allows you to turn your vehicle on, listen to itsradio, activate your headlights, and perform the various other miscellaneous,electricity-dependent functions inherent to piloting a vehicle. Many of us haveeven had the dubious “pleasure” of jumping or replacing a dead car battery. Electrical power is the lifeblood of the 12 volt TV and modern world, and thatdoesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. With so many products and machinesthat depend on electrical power, it’s no surprise that people would need tofind a way to keep their devices alive when separated from an electrical grid.This is where the star of our article comes in: the battery.Batteries Are in Everything but What’s inside a Battery?While batteries come in an astounding array of categories, the battery itselfis still one of the very few ways to store electrical energy for any length oftime. Any battery you purchase in a store will almost certainly be a chemicalstorage battery, meaning that the electrical potential of the battery iscaptured in one of many possible arrangements of metal and chemical. A commonkind is Lead-Acid, which is probably the one that’s currently powering your 12volt TV, though one can just as easily encounter Zinc-Chloride and other, moreexotic compositions. The acid in the first instance is usually of thehydrochloric variety; chemicals in other batteries vary and can be liquid orgel, with gel often referred to as “dry.” Another kind of battery you mayencounter often, especially in AA or AAA batteries, is Lithium-Ion.When batteries are not hooked up to your 12 volt television, there is no easyway for the electrical potential they contain to escape, so they keep itmore-or-less contained (though they will lose juice over time, more power islost in warm temperatures, so keep your batteries in the fridge!). When hookedup to a 12 volt TV, however, the metal and chemicals will react to give up theelectrons (the fundamental unit of electricity) from their atomic structures.Those electrons are sucked out of the battery and fed into the electronicdevices in need of powering. Once all the electrons are pulled out, you’re leftwith an inert container of the aforementioned metals and chemicals.Rechargeable batteries have become more common, more efficient, and more usefulin recent years, though even they eventually give up the ghost and must be safelydisposed of in favor of a fresh set.12 Volt: The Unsung Hero of BatteriesEveryone can identify a AA, AAA, D and probably a few other common varieties ofbattery, as well as the items they power. Less frequently thought of, though,is the incredibly useful 12 volt battery. The 12 volt battery is incrediblycommon; you really can find them everywhere. It has long been a staple of powering devices, and has been theuncontested king of automotive batteries for about as long. Even with the oldschool Lead-Acid battery, which is a fairly inefficient arrangement whencompared to more modern developments, you can draw a startling amount of juice foryour 12 volt TV before needing to find a replacement.  For a standard car battery, say a Rayovac 926(one of the “dry” batteries mentioned briefly above), you can expect about7,400 milliamp hours.What this means is that you can draw one milliamp every hour for 7,400 hours, or7,400 milliamps for one hour or any variable in between (for reference, 1,000milliamps comprise one amp). Speaking a little more plainly, this means that ifyou had a device that used, say, 500 milliamps an hour, you could have fourteenof them hooked up to the same car battery and they would run for over an hour.Getting the Most From Your 12 VoltIf you have a boat, RV, semi or any other platform on which you use a 12 voltbattery and would like to have several home amenities functioning, your “ampbudget” is an important thing to keep in mind. You’ll want to take diligentnote of how much electrical power the devices you purchase and activate areeating, lest you run your battery to death without noticing.Another significant factor is the temperature at which you’ll be operating your12 volt TV. Cold weather impacts the amount of electricity that will be availableat any given time. Hot weather will increase the amount of electricity thatgets used. If you think back to your high school science class, you mayremember that any kind of energy, be it heat, electrical or kinetic is theproduct of molecules getting excited, moving around, taking up more space andaligning themselves less rigidly. Just as your muscles have a hard time beingenergetic in the cold, so does intense cold impede the ability of molecules tojump around energetically. Just as hot weather can makes it easier for yourmuscles to be limber, flexible, and energetic at the cost of potential tooverheat and exhaust yourself, so does intense heat impede a battery’s abilityto accurately control its outflow to your 12 volt television.Fortunately, every second that your vehicle is pumping its pistons and spinningits gears is a second that the vehicle’s motor is recharging the battery, usingharvested movement energy to feed electrons back into storage. This is why youcan have your headlights on for hours while driving and be fine, while leavingthem on in your unattended vehicle overnight necessitates jumper cables. It’salso why, after having your car jumped, people will tell you to let the car runfor a while before turning it off. You want to have some juice in the batteryfor next time.