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Has anyone used a portable charger with a Garmin Edge 800 successfully? The type that takes AA or PP9 batteries
I'm planning a big adventure where I may need to navigate and track from the GPS for a few days without seeing mains power.
Please no map pedants. I will be carrying these as well. However, I need the GPS traces after the event.
I have a solar charger from aldi. Try them they might still have some in stock.
Not convinced by solar as I'll mostly be riding in daytime and want to charge at night
A PowerTraveller SolarMonkey has a separate rechargable battery and a solar panel. You charge up the battery during the day and recharge the Edge at night. If you start with the battery fully charged (from mains or USB) it'll likely give you two full recharges anyway.
I've done it with an Edge 705 - it works fine.
There are some good ones but can't remember the name at the moment. There was a topic on here a while back about back up battery for iPhones so you can prolong the use of endomondo etc. was a good little bit of kit that you plug your USB into and then into the Garmin. Good for 2 charges from memory
A PortaPow charger is what you want. They do 2 sorts - a 2x AA charger for £7 (without batteries) and a 3400mAh LiIon charger for £20. The LiIon charger is the monkeys nuts - it has little blue leds that look brilliant. No idea if it works but it does get good write ups and it looks good. It's 100g so nice and light, just needs taping to your stem. Can also be used to power phones/ipods etc (any 5V USB device).
I just bought both, as I wasn't sure if the 2xAA one would be any good, so bought it to have a look - haven't tried it yet.
Remembered, New Trent portable charger! Check them out on Amazon. There were some good deals a few weeks ago