I'm in the early stages of planning a motocamping trip that I will take next year and am looking for suggestions on how to recharge laptop/camera/phone batteries while away from civilization.
I record videos and take a lot of photos when I travel. I'm hoping to do some moto-travel vlogging while on this trip. It seems like power banks are good for cell phones, maybe a gopro, but not a dslr or laptop battery. I obviously can't take a generator with me. I'll have a look into a solar charger but I don't think those small portable ones are able to charge a laptop. Any suggestions?
Dude, you're *riding* a generator.
Yes, some knives in the drawer are not very sharp!
Get a 12v DC to 240v AC inverter for your car.
Then get a moderately large solar panel, bolt it to your roof and wire it into your car battery so you can't do something stupid like run it flat at the bottom of a hill in the middle of nowhere. The panel will trickle charge the battery.
That corner of the panel in the shade is triggering my autism
>>629743
Motomaster Eliminator (pic related) + power inverter. The Eliminator is a battery in a box with enough circuitry to plug in your laptop/dslr charger, and also jump-start your car. Charge it using the inverter while the engine is running or when you find a handy power outlet.
Coffee cup inverter
>>629765
Scratch the inverter, you can charge those things straight from the 12v plug in your car.
>>629778
>The batteries on pretty much all motorbikes are tiny and drain in no time at all.
There is such a thing as heated riding gear which is intended to plug into your motorcycle's power system to keep you warm while riding, so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss your bike as a power source. At the least, you could set up your laptop to charge while you're riding.
>>629778
>motocamping
Never heard of it. How long will you be out for? Will you have a chance to plug into a regular grid occasionally? What voltage does your laptop/DSLR charge at? Will the area you'll be in have enough sunlight to make solar worth it? How about wind? How about micro-hydro? Is there enough output from your alternator to charge something while you ride? What kind of weight/space restrictions do you have?
>>629778
Spend some money on an upgraded stator/reg-rect. Or pull it apart and wind it yourself, filling the poles.
I got another 20-30 watts out of rewinding mine (brings me up to ~100W total). >Pic related. Battery charges faster, and I can run heated grips along with the headlight.
If you have (or can install) a 3-phase stator, that's going to give you significantly more power since the conversion from 3Φ to DC is a lot more efficient.
Portable solar sufficient to charge a laptop in a reasonable amount of time does exist but is huge and expensive (see your pic)
Just charge it from your car
>>629755
> I'm in your corner
Op, Suntactics S14.
You're welcome.
why dont you make stops at mc Donalds or starbucks thats how i charge my shit when im traveling
