Quote: Originally posted by old chap on 01/5/2015
Please do not take this wrongly ,but when camping or touring I take a laptop,a smartphone & have a tom tom I have never had to use anything other than the car battery to recharge these items
surely you do not rely so much on these items that you have to recharge them so often . do you ever enjoy your surroundings or just sit playing on the ipod/phone ,tablet????
Well, exactly! That's what I'm hoping. My hubby does read on his phone in the evening though, so I imagine that eats up quite a bit of battery. I read on my Kobo, which is a lot less battery hungry.
I use my phone to call my mother at least once a day, and I use it to find postcodes or maps etc of wherever we might be going. I don't use it as a sat Nav, because we have a garmin for that.
The kids would sit and play on the iPad all day if I let them - but I don't. As I said, they usually watch 10-15 minutes of cartoons or something in the evening. But that's really not necessary, we'll just take extra books.
I think I'll take the phones and the kobo, but leave the iPad. I think I'm worrying about this far too much. I like to have something to worry about! After all, when I was young, we would camp for 6 weeks in the summer with no electric and without a second thought! Although I was very scared of those gas mantle lights in the caravan, because one set on fire once, so I used to cry whenever my dad put it on.
Hi I'm the same as Armchair, I use an Anker portable charger and its really good, £20 of Amazon it charges my iPad mini great it says it also charges normal ipads, I get 4 to 5 charges from it, I like to keep my phone topped up as i use it for the camera, with the car and the portable charger you should be able to keep things going, oh I also charge my iPad in the car no problem.
Don't know why the links not working, but if you put Anker portable charger in amazon it will bring them up.
yup another vote for Anker. more money but can run a 12v led strip bought for a few quid from ebay at the same time. anker 20 Ah
you can recharge this from the car. it didn't flatten my car battery
If you are touring and using the car for long distances every day there should be no problem in charging devices as you travel, but if your camp is static once you arrive and you expect to recharge every day without running the engine then you may flatten the battery. You could top up the car battery each sunny day with a 20w, 12v car battery charger.
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Topic: Charging ipads etc from car battery
