Has anyone used the 12v fish finder batteries to charge a cell phone? How did you rig it up?
Any ideas?
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Has anyone used the 12v fish finder batteries to charge a cell phone? How did you rig it up?
Any ideas?
Hook a USB adapter or cig lighter to the terminal then plug in your phone.
Bingo... FF battery should be 12v. Connect a cigarette lighter socket, stick your car charger/usb adapter in.Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhite
Thanks Guys!
That's what I was thinking, just wanted to know if anyone had any experience with it.
Just buy the Phone USb lighter charger from the dollar store attached wires, maybe build a little box or so.
Buy one of those new fangled portable backup battery chargers everybody and their brother should have by now.
Got a cigarette lighter with the wires attached, I'll start with that and then if that's awkward I'll just use the wires to attach the USB adapter directly like you suggest.
First of all I've got at ff battery that won't be getting used but I'm also hoping that my battery will do better than the above which says it's: "Good for two iPhones, one Samsung Galaxy S3, and one Blackberry Z10 charges"Quote:
Originally Posted by RHYBAK
Not to clear if it's good for any ONE of those things or if it's good for all 4???
We're headed up to our cabin with no hydro, looking for an easy way to charge phones over 4-5 days.
Just saying what you can charge at once based on the current supplied.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rugger
Yeah those are only good for 1 maybe 2 charges
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Originally Posted by RHYBAK
Rugger those batteries are rated for 7ah so you should be able to charge your phones easily on a fully charged Battery.
Yah, well how many times are you going to charge your phone from a FF battery if your using your FF at the same time?
That's the thing, I don't think I will be doing any fishing over the holidays this year. So I may as well use the battery for something!
Lol....I don't think you'll be doing any fishing all winter.
Can't charge in your vehicle? A deep cycle with a lighter socket plug works great.
S.
I've used this with success:
http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/no...-0111907p.html
Ended up going with this:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...221_111041.jpg
All it cost me was $2 or 3 for the adapter.
Sinker: usually at this time of year the car is a 2+ km hike away and I don't feel like hauling a deep cycle up in a toboggan :)
I second just getting a small Lith Ion battery pack that you can use to charge phones, and tablets... Anything that charges via USB. The link someone posted to the one at Canadian tire has pretty crappy capacity compared to other units available. Look at the Anker line on amazon.ca
http://www.amazon.ca/Anker-10000mAh-...keywords=anker
This is 10000mAh, vs the 3000mAh that Canadian tire had for the same price....
Most phone batteries are around 2250-3000mAh so you'll get more than a couple charges, and you can go larger capacity if you would like.
The Chargers mountainM posted are pretty slick. As he said, you can get a whole whack of charges (6-8)(20000 mah) for around 40 bucks which is the less than the one charge ctc and Costco chargers offer for the same price.
No offense but those costco options are actually terrible!
Anker is almost impossible to beat, and they are very reliable. I have a couple around the house and use them all the time.
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Originally Posted by MountainM
That does look like a great deal!
I don't have one? And I don't have a brother either?[emoji6]Quote:
Originally Posted by RHYBAK
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Originally Posted by greatwhite
A solar powered charger at Cantire. looks interesting 60 bucks tho.
http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/po...l#.VvgGpKxNI4A
Add a small 2 to 5 watt solar panel and you'll never have to worry about having enough battry charge to top up your phone. Can tire sells them as do a few places. Just be sure that the current from the panel is not more then 10% of the a/hr of the battery. Your battery is 7.2 a/hr so nothing more then 600 to 700 milliamps ( .6 to .7 amps ). Look for one that has a regulator circuit in it. Most of the little ones do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rugger
Looks great, but I would put a fuse between the cig plug and the battery .... just incase.
Thanks for the advice Snowwalker and Frogger, I think I'll look into bot of your suggestions.
My wife recently bought herself a surface. Its wall transformer delivers 5.2v while all of the phone transformers deliver 5.0. Would it be ok to charge her tablet with 5.0v?
Rugger, do you spend a 'reasonable" amount of time there without easy access to power?
If so, some of the various Solar power options would be my suggestion.
Ive used goal zero products for a few years now. Charges everything from phone, and or run my laptop, led lights to light cabins/tents, etc,etc.
Running LED lights
http://jbenphotography.ca/img/s/v-2/p1335724209-5.jpg
http://jbenphotography.ca/img/s/v-2/p1335713062-5.jpg
A prospectors tent for a week of spring bear last year. The light source at the back of the tent is from a single incandescent bulb, powered by a Genny. The front light source, and outside the tent entrance are two led lights powered from the solar battery. It has 150w capacity ( So something that draws 150w will drain it in an hour, two 3w LED lights about 25hours run time) That battery can accept USB, regular electrical plugs, adapters for cig lighters etc. I can charge it via solar power, wall, car, etcc, etc.
If I had a cabin in the woods, where there was no power...
If you just want something capable of charging phones there are small options, ideal for canoe trips etc.