Planning a 4 day ride across the Quantocks, Exmoor, Dartmoor and home next month and want to navigate using breadcrumb trail on my edge 200 (before anyone tries to talk me out of navigating like this I've done it quite a few times and happy with it )

But I know my garmin will only last a couple of days, 3 at best. Has anyone used anything like this to charge a garmin?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/UKOUTLET-Extern ... le+charger


In theory this should charge it at least a couple of times I reckon?

No reason why it won't work fine ... although at less than a fiver, I'm not sure how much faith I'd put in its longevity

These are pretty good:

http://www.7dayshop.com/products/7daysh ... ONE4S-7003


The multi-tip cable is a worthwhile extra.

Are you on the mobile network EE? There's a free power bar offer atm

benp1 wrote:Are you on the mobile network EE? There's a free power bar offer atm

Not until late June if you haven't claimed one already.

The 'Anker' brand is pretty good, according to people in geo-stuff nerdery I've gotten involved in - various different sizes/prices, if you look them up on amazon.

One of mine is a fuel + PCPB30001 as it supports charge/discharge at the same time, so you can charge it from say a dynamo and charge your garmin at the same time. It cost about 8 quid.

Cheers

Thanks for the comments, it was the power bar thing that got me thinking about the idea in the first place, a mate got one yesterday.
Some of those others look good, I'll do some more research and once I've bought one and tried it I'll report back

[thread hijack] Has anyone found an emergency charger that takes AA batteries and actually works?

Dave Barter wrote:[thread hijack] Has anyone found an emergency charger that takes AA batteries and actually works?

Yes, I've used it and charged my edge 200 and edge 500.
Tis a porta power one.