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Anker is a decent make.
One to charge 6 devices is going to be huge though (think of the size of the batteries of the 6 devices all in one place, it has to be at least that big to charge them all once). Probably be better if each person took a smaller one and charged it themself.
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Excellent idea taking one which will double as a jump starter - it's what I do myself, having been caught out a couple of times with a dead bike battery. But you certainly don't need a mammoth thing like that massive £282 Noco gadget - that will apparently give you 80 jump starts per charge and will start engines up to 9 litres! Noco (who are well though of) do smaller versions, though I have a Halfords one, which I use as a phone charger on occasions... needless to say I've never needed to use it to start a bike since I've owned it, but it's good for peace of mind. Mine is no longer sold, but this looks like the nearest equivalent:
https://www.halfords.com/motoring/battery-maintenance/jump-starters/halfords-advanced-lithium-jump-starter-2l-100355.html
Regarding the single USB output, which will be common to all of these boosters - you can certainly buy USB adapters (eg https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BGJCXY22) but I've no idea whether they would play nicely when used specifically to charge multiple devices at the same time.
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If you're looking at spending that much, if you can find room for it, you could fit a leisure battery to your bike for much less.
Basically what they do on camper vans, you have a charge relay which only sends charge out once the main battery is fully charged, it then sends power to a second deep cycle leisure battery (a deep cycle battery is happy to be discharged a long way then charged back up repeatedly). Then you hook up your devices to the leisure battery, be that a multi-port USB charger or even an inverter.
The advantage of this is you never eat into the charge on the main vehicle battery.
They usually use a great big lead acid battery for this mounted on the van frame. people even run mivrowaves and TVs off them. You do get smaller ones too, so likes of a 3.5Ah deep cycle lithium battery is fairly compact and light and that's 3500mAh which is more than the biggest anker powerbank, it would run a fairly meaty sound system all night, a couple of lights and charge a lot of phones.
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| Freddyfruitbat wrote: | Excellent idea taking one which will double as a jump starter - it's what I do myself, having been caught out a couple of times with a dead bike battery. But you certainly don't need a mammoth thing like that massive £282 Noco gadget - that will apparently give you 80 jump starts per charge and will start engines up to 9 litres! Noco (who are well though of) do smaller versions, though I have a Halfords one, which I use as a phone charger on occasions... needless to say I've never needed to use it to start a bike since I've owned it, but it's good for peace of mind. Mine is no longer sold, but this looks like the nearest equivalent:
https://www.halfords.com/motoring/battery-maintenance/jump-starters/halfords-advanced-lithium-jump-starter-2l-100355.html
Regarding the single USB output, which will be common to all of these boosters - you can certainly buy USB adapters (eg https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BGJCXY22) but I've no idea whether they would play nicely when used specifically to charge multiple devices at the same time. |
Problem with the smaller ones by Noco is they don't take a 12v charge input, only USB. Like I said I could use one of the USB outlets on my bike to charge it (I think there's one under the seat, not checked yet) but I think a 12v would be much more reliable as I can just plug it straight into the SAE from the battery. I could also sling it in the car for future use after I get back from tour as a backup.
The USB hub/splitter is a good idea, thanks. If it doesn't play ball, the other two will just have to wait their turn until I've finished charging my siht!
| stinkwheel wrote: | If you're looking at spending that much, if you can find room for it, you could fit a leisure battery to your bike for much less.
Basically what they do on camper vans, you have a charge relay which only sends charge out once the main battery is fully charged, it then sends power to a second deep cycle leisure battery (a deep cycle battery is happy to be discharged a long way then charged back up repeatedly). Then you hook up your devices to the leisure battery, be that a multi-port USB charger or even an inverter.
The advantage of this is you never eat into the charge on the main vehicle battery.
They usually use a great big lead acid battery for this mounted on the van frame. people even run mivrowaves and TVs off them. You do get smaller ones too, so likes of a 3.5Ah deep cycle lithium battery is fairly compact and light and that's 3500mAh which is more than the biggest anker powerbank, it would run a fairly meaty sound system all night, a couple of lights and charge a lot of phones. |
It's a nice idea, but probably more appropriate for a GS or something similar. Where would I put one on a M1000XR? At least with a portable power bank like this I can sling it in the car or indoors when I'm done with it, I probably won't want to carry the extra weight of a leisure battery the rest of the time apart from one or two long tours to Europe every year.
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