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  • Charging electrics on multiday rides. What you using?
  • MrKmkII
    Free Member

    Hello,
    I’m thinking of a five day wild camp tour of the southwest soonish, and I’m wondering what everyone does to keep phones charged up? I’ll most likely wild camp, so might be able to charge very often. What do people do? Spare batteries? Dynamos? Leaving the phone behind ain’t gonna wash, though thanks in advance for the person who insists that’s what I should do 🙂
    Cheers!

    kilo
    Full Member

    We used one of these on sani2c for charging garmins;

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Duracell-Pocket-Charger-/141335830198?_trksid=p2054897.l4275

    works off aa batteries unlike powermonkey type devices

    boltonjon
    Full Member

    Been using an auxillary power pack for a few months and have been really impressed

    Typically get 3 or 4 charges out of it

    If i’m using the GPS tracker function, i’ll set the phone on aircraft mode to save juice

    After some searching i found the one i bought – bargain at £17

    Search for Anker® Astro 5600mAh Portable External Battery Charger on Amazon

    Enjoy 🙂

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    mav12
    Free Member

    aldi had some 12ah ones acouple of weeks ago£15

    nickjb
    Free Member

    External battery and turning the phone off occasionally. At least turn it off overnight.

    Pawsy_Bear
    Free Member

    Powermonkey, comes with own solar panel. Easy charge everything, phone, iPad, GPS.

    somafunk
    Full Member

    I bought one of the Aldi Envio 7800mAh chargers a few weeks ago on a whim, it’s got 1A charging output and a 2.1A charging output along with a decent little built in LED light, it managed to charge 4 iPhone 5S iPhones from dead to full last weekend and still had enough charge to kickstart another to half full.

    Not bad for the pittance it cost, i’m sure the Anker versions on Amazon are very similar or perhaps better.

    MrKmkII
    Free Member

    Wow – something approaching a consensus – thanks everyone for your help! Will start looking into these various devices. Cheers!

    deadkenny
    Free Member

    Luxury of swanky hotels or a good B&B, with mains sockets and free WiFi for me, or no riding 😛

    hypnotoad
    Free Member

    Dynamo with USB port

    m360
    Free Member

    wild camping = phone off/at home surely?

    Edit – just realised, you’ll probably want to check with the STW-ers what to have for dinner/breakfast each day. Of course, that’ll depend on what pedals you have, the alignment of the moon, and how many spacers under your stem…

    steezysix
    Free Member

    I use a dynamo hub connected to a USB charger – you only get a constant charge at about 15kph and above so it’s great on road, but for stop/start mountain biking a charged up cache battery (or two) would be more reliable.

    murf
    Free Member

    How about buying an old nokia with a battery that will laat a week? Just use your existing sim card in it.

    No use if you’re actually looking to use the smartphone functions of your phone of course!

    houndlegs
    Free Member

    Beaten to it by murf, I’ve got a Nokia 105, battery lasts a week, you can pick one up cheap as chips.

    MrKmkII
    Free Member

    Thanks m360 – there’s always one 😉

    Murf – not a bad call. Certainly won’t be checking emails. I have a spare battery for my phone but will be lucky to get two days from each battery. Might get away with it, but don’t want to find out it’s not enough in the middle of nowhere surrounded by rising water and my bike broken! A third battery might be a weight (and cost) effective option.

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    Dynohub. B+M USBWerk. Anker 13000mAh backup battery.

    Cheaper still would be a Nokia brick/phone/torch that lasts at least week on a charge 😉 (no internet can be a major bonus)

    ratherbeintobago
    Full Member

    Stupid question – is there a better way of dynamo cable routing on a suspension fork than just cable-tying the wires to the fork leg?

    hypnotoad
    Free Member

    You may be able to tape it to the front brake hose, not ideal but may keep the wires a little neater.

    ratherbeintobago
    Full Member

    You may be able to tape it to the front brake hose, not ideal but may keep the wires a little neater.

    Is there not a slight problem with that? 😛

    tubthumped
    Free Member

    Just in case you thought about ignoring the ones suggested, and decided to go to Maplins for their 10k mAh one for £30 thinking it would be better — Don’t — It’s a pile of shit.

    MrKmkII
    Free Member

    Thanks tubthumped! Swaying towards cheap phone now, especially if I can get one with the same batteries I use in my Nokia Asha…

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