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  1. Not an encouraging first test. One of the power packs lasted for 11 minutes with the fan on high. The other one wouldn’t even do more than sputter in an attempt to start the fan. I’ll recharge and retry with a smaller fan, but this is not looking promising.

  2. The power pack that couldn’t even start the big fan as been running for an hour on a little oscillating fan. It’s showing signs of flagging, but I’m timing until it can’t push the fan any more.

  3. The power pack ultimately ran for 2 hours. That’s probably good enough for what we need in the heat of the afternoon. Testing on another fan tomorrow.

  4. Today’s experiment involved the same power pack but a different oscillating fan. This one just ran at full power for 1 hour and 58 minutes (uncannily, the same amount of time as yesterday’s fan), but at that time, it quit going full blast and is still turning at a slower speed. We’ll see how much more time it will go before it quits completely.

    I’m comfortable that this solution will do what we want it to do on the swap meet grounds.