Good point about batteries.  They are old and even if they seem charged after I don't know how long they will stay charged.  I do not know what a cycler is, but I was thinking about leaving everything powered on till it's completley dead before charging because I heard that some type of batteries don't last as long if you start charging them before they are completly drained.  I will look up cycler to test batteries or just leave all the electronic parts on and go do something else and check back.