Thank you very much! I tinkered a little bit with the idea, and after a little while decided to just go very simple (seeing as it was my first attempt) and bought a AA battery box from radioshack and hooked it up to a 510 heating element with a bit of solder and an alligator clamp. Its currently working off of 4 AA's! Not the prettiest work, but it functions! I'm hoping that I can attempt to convert it to a passthrough using your recommendations soon, I just bought a resistor and momentary button switch, so I'm hoping it goes well!