Remote power help needed !
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Ph'ers I need your help.
Am off with Mrs CVP to Africa for the first time for a two week trip to Kenya, Uganda and lastly Rwanda to see the mountain gorillas (too much David Attenborough a a child
)
Most of the planning has gone well but now I fear Nikon are doing their best to conspire against me. It's a reasonably basic trip but I will have access to a 12V cigarette lighter type power socket in the truck for recharging but I cannot for the life of me find a connector to allow recharging to replace the normal power socket to 2 pin lead for battery recharging.
Can anyone point me in the right direction here and help me find some way of recharging on the move? I'm already taking a spare battery so should have enough charge for a decent number of images but am concerned about battery performance dropping off as they will get cold at night.
Cheers
Chris
Am off with Mrs CVP to Africa for the first time for a two week trip to Kenya, Uganda and lastly Rwanda to see the mountain gorillas (too much David Attenborough a a child
) Most of the planning has gone well but now I fear Nikon are doing their best to conspire against me. It's a reasonably basic trip but I will have access to a 12V cigarette lighter type power socket in the truck for recharging but I cannot for the life of me find a connector to allow recharging to replace the normal power socket to 2 pin lead for battery recharging.
Can anyone point me in the right direction here and help me find some way of recharging on the move? I'm already taking a spare battery so should have enough charge for a decent number of images but am concerned about battery performance dropping off as they will get cold at night.
Cheers
Chris
matthew_h said:
I have a 12v to 240v converter that I bought from Halfords to allow me to power my video camera in the car. You plug it into the cigarette lighter socket and it transforms that to a 3 pin 240v supply.
It works really well.
Could that be a solution for you?
It works really well.
Could that be a solution for you?
Agree, an inverter is your best bet.
matthew_h said:
I have a 12v to 240v converter that I bought from Halfords to allow me to power my video camera in the car. You plug it into the cigarette lighter socket and it transforms that to a 3 pin 240v supply.
It works really well.
Could that be a solution for you?
It works really well.
Could that be a solution for you?
I have one of those too and it works a treat. Cost about £60 I think.
Cheers chaps, will give Grays a shout and then also look at the inverter solution.
Trip is not for a while yet - mid November but you know what it's like making sure all kit is ready and functional in advance. I'm already accumulating a good stock of compact flash cards.
For something like this I'm most definitely following the 7P's.
Chris
Trip is not for a while yet - mid November but you know what it's like making sure all kit is ready and functional in advance. I'm already accumulating a good stock of compact flash cards.
For something like this I'm most definitely following the 7P's.
Chris
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