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I buy batteries from an online battery surplus place out of California, and I bought a pair of 10 amp power batteries a couple years ago, and I just rose running them in parallel. And last weekend I was doing noise checks right before the contest, and I pulled the power on my power supply here. My charger's last power supply. I run my shack off it. That's why it's 55 amps. It's really the – I run all my stuff when I'm running all my shack. So I'm using my radio to pull 20 amps plus when it's going. So that's really what it's for, right? Because it's a whole shack-like battery, basically. Anyway, so I was running that, and I pulled the battery. I pulled the charger, and everything died. I was like, that's not good. So I pulled the cells apart and put a volt meter on them, and one of them was 14.4, and the other one was 7.5. And I'm like, that 7.5, you just go to the side, you have a bad cell or two in it, and I put the back to the 10 amp and ran off that for the last week and a half, or week plus, week and a day. So now I'm running this other one, and it just came with a shipping charge on it. So the only time that I'll actually charge it at the current is when I have a power outage and the power comes back. I get the delivery, and he's like, oh, you shouldn't charge it that much current. It's only when I've ran them down all the – it's a big battery pack, too. So you've got to get – I get what you're saying, though. I always shouldn't be charging like this. This is how I run my shack off, also. Anyways, that's the story there. N7-URH.