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Battery Powered Turntables?

I'm looking to take my system "off the grid" and while I see options out there for battery powered phono stages (like Sutherland), I don't seem to see much in the way of battery powered turntables. What are my options?

I'm more or less a newbie to analog (been away from Vinyl for 20 years) so I'm a little dizzy trying to figure everything out. I'd like to be in the $1,500 range for table/arm/cartridge if possible - definitely under $2,500. A well paired stage recommendation would be appreciated too if you have one in mind.
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Any AC turntable can be run on batteries.

Until recently* I made a kit which was specifically designed to run AC synchronous motors on SLA battery supply. It's very easy to do, use a car amp chip to step up the oscillator power then transformers (one per phase) to convert the voltage.

*I stopped selling the kits last week.
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