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Laurel Green

30,802 posts

234 months

Sunday 3rd January 2016
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I just hope they can tie-down the contract.

RDM

1,860 posts

209 months

Sunday 3rd January 2016
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Surely the coverage issue that was highlighted could easily be overcome with mifi etc?

CoolHands

18,875 posts

197 months

Sunday 3rd January 2016
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I think it has to use mobile network to enable them to get their revenue from each user. With wifi they have no method of collection.

kev1974

4,029 posts

131 months

Sunday 3rd January 2016
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Sure I have read news stories recently of local councils and Royal Parks etc starting to get arsey with people running fitness businesses on the lands that those bodies maintain/control. I don't think you can just pitch up where you like and start running classes.

Also is there not already some sort of mobile instructor <-> student wireless/radio comms system, such as that used by motorcycle trainers? Can't be that much of a leap to have a high quality version of that with music added in?

Laurel Green

30,802 posts

234 months

Sunday 3rd January 2016
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Are we going to have a bidding war here?

CoolHands

18,875 posts

197 months

Sunday 3rd January 2016
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What's the website name? I need some shampoo!

BJG1

5,966 posts

214 months

Sunday 3rd January 2016
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Done well there!

Butter Face

30,653 posts

162 months

Sunday 3rd January 2016
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Latestfreestuff.uk

Laurel Green

30,802 posts

234 months

Sunday 3rd January 2016
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LatesFreeStuff I Think

I was a tad slow there, wasn't I. biggrin

Laurel Green

30,802 posts

234 months

Sunday 10th January 2016
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Heads up.

Laurel Green

30,802 posts

234 months

Sunday 10th January 2016
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Two pitches and two offers - blimey!

kev1974

4,029 posts

131 months

Sunday 10th January 2016
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I didn't see why the two women went all "I couldn't work with you" shouty with the glass man. Think he has a hard product to sell, but they seemed to prematurely go off on one with him, unless there was something he said earlier that we weren't shown.

mgtony

4,027 posts

192 months

Sunday 10th January 2016
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If that bottle gizmo was on the bar and not behind it, it would be full of pint glasses, mobile phones and fingers! biggrin

Laurel Green

30,802 posts

234 months

Sunday 10th January 2016
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I fear for that chicken now. hehe

kev1974

4,029 posts

131 months

Sunday 10th January 2016
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Because having my £600 iphone sitting within a couple of feet of a boiling kettle is a good idea

Because having my phone tethered to a burning cooker is great news when someone grabs the phone and pulls the lot over

NO THANKS

p.s. how long do you have to sit there burning fuel to give your phone a full charge?

Laurel Green

30,802 posts

234 months

Sunday 10th January 2016
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I'd say the short lead is chosen for display purposes and that 'in the real' would be a lot longer. Mind, I'd like to know how high a charge this can give compared with a solar charger - would expect quite a tad more.

DSLiverpool

14,836 posts

204 months

Sunday 10th January 2016
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kev1974 said:
Because having my £600 iphone sitting within a couple of feet of a boiling kettle is a good idea

Because having my phone tethered to a burning cooker is great news when someone grabs the phone and pulls the lot over

NO THANKS

p.s. how long do you have to sit there burning fuel to give your phone a full charge?
That will fail on dd I think as all your points are raised however the failure to ask the efficiency of the thermo is just crap TV

PurpleTurtle

7,154 posts

146 months

Monday 11th January 2016
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It's currently in development for launch: http://www.tegology.com/

What they didn't really make clear on the show is that the stove has an internal battery pack which it charges, the user then charges their device from that. It was a poor presentation (or poorly edited) coming across as "this only charges your device when the burner is alight", they missed the key feature of the internal battery.

The blurb says "the stove will charge devices at a rate of 5 volts at 1 amp.. Any ideas on how long that would take to charge an iPhone from flat?

I'm a seasoned camper and festival go-er, but don't see any advantage over my Trangia stove and a couple of rechargeable battery packs that I take on every trip, these give me enough juice for a week away. Separate battery packs are useful for long weekends away when not camping, without the need to carry a stove around with me.

I think the target market for this product - campers who will be away from mainstream charging facilities/car chargers for an extended time, but are stil lable t ocarry enough gas canisters to keep this thing going - is fairly small and it won't make the fortune that the Dragons were all getting hot under the collar about.




Edited by PurpleTurtle on Monday 11th January 12:11

JontyR

1,915 posts

169 months

Monday 11th January 2016
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PurpleTurtle said:
It's currently in development for launch: http://www.tegology.com/

What they didn't really make clear on the show is that the stove has an internal battery pack which it charges, the user then charges their device from that. It was a poor presentation (or poorly edited) coming across as "this only charges your device when the burner is alight", they missed the key feature of the internal battery.

The blurb says "the stove will charge devices at a rate of 5 volts at 1 amp.. Any ideas on how long that would take to charge an iPhone from flat?

I'm a seasoned camper and festival go-er, but don't see any advantage over my Trangia stove and a couple of rechargeable battery packs that I take on every trip, these give me enough juice for a week away. Separate battery packs are useful for long weekends away when not camping, without the need to carry a stove around with me.

I think the target market for this product - campers who will be away from mainstream charging facilities/car chargers for an extended time, but are stil lable t ocarry enough gas canisters to keep this thing going - is fairly small and it won't make the fortune that the Dragons were all getting hot under the collar about.




Edited by PurpleTurtle on Monday 11th January 12:11
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/Portable-Power/Onan/Onan-Q3-5000mAh-Portable-Power-Bank

This outputs at 2.1A with an average charge time of an iPhone of 5-6 hours....so I am guessing approx. 10hrs from flat.

kev1974

4,029 posts

131 months

Monday 11th January 2016
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PurpleTurtle said:
It's currently in development for launch: http://www.tegology.com/

What they didn't really make clear on the show is that the stove has an internal battery pack which it charges, the user then charges their device from that. It was a poor presentation (or poorly edited) coming across as "this only charges your device when the burner is alight", they missed the key feature of the internal battery.

The blurb says "the stove will charge devices at a rate of 5 volts at 1 amp.. Any ideas on how long that would take to charge an iPhone from flat?

I'm a seasoned camper and festival go-er, but don't see any advantage over my Trangia stove and a couple of rechargeable battery packs that I take on every trip, these give me enough juice for a week away. Separate battery packs are useful for long weekends away when not camping, without the need to carry a stove around with me.

I think the target market for this product - campers who will be away from mainstream charging facilities/car chargers for an extended time - is fairly small and it won't make the fortune that the Dragons were all getting hot under the collar about.
Yep if you're somewhere where you'll not be seeing power for days these days, you're either at Glastonbury Festival, or you're somewhere so remote you won't be getting any kind of mobile data signal either. Sure there's offline map apps but I'd have thought if you're somewhere like that you take a hard copy paper map, to be safe!

Thanks for the link, no the presentation didn't mention the battery part, or if they did it was so quick I missed it.