Garth
Contributor
Fellow Enthusiasts,
Have you ever been annoyed by the amount of time it takes to gather all your electrical equipment for a dive trip or vacation excursion?
Ever find yourself unplugging, wrapping, organizing, making sure you have all the chargers, batteries, wires and do-dads necessary to take a cave or wreck trip?
well I have and have been annoyed by all the plugging and unplugging and packing so when I saw a solution that a buddy of mine Scott Walker was doing I figured it was time to build my own. I also have never actually seen anyone doing this on the forums so I thought it would be appropriate to share. I'm not sure if Scott came up with this or if this is the ancient secret passed on by those who "post less, and dive more" who knows.
My potential list of charged stuff
The concept is to use a milk crate as the base as it has handles and can be carried relatively easily. Then get a surge protector that will do for the amount of charging objects you need. I got a surge protector for an entertainment center so that I have 2 USB ports for my goPro and iPhone or the Nautilus lifeline uses a USB.
If you zip tie everything down nothing will move when you transport it to your car and everything will stay organized. Since there is quite a bit of room in the milk crate you can set your canister light, computer, goPro, etc inside for the transport.
Once you get to the dive site/house/yacht/mansion/remote location with a generator/cabin/trailer/tent/ or ##### house you simply plug in ONE plug and you are set to go. Once you get back from the dive you pop in all the batteries and connect everything and whallah!!! your done when you go home you unplug ONE plug and carry it to the car saving plenty of plugging and unplugging.
I hope you enjoyed this solution and feel free to comment, belittle, berate, or discourage anyone from doing this as this is an online forum and subject to your own dang opinion
Have you ever been annoyed by the amount of time it takes to gather all your electrical equipment for a dive trip or vacation excursion?
Ever find yourself unplugging, wrapping, organizing, making sure you have all the chargers, batteries, wires and do-dads necessary to take a cave or wreck trip?
well I have and have been annoyed by all the plugging and unplugging and packing so when I saw a solution that a buddy of mine Scott Walker was doing I figured it was time to build my own. I also have never actually seen anyone doing this on the forums so I thought it would be appropriate to share. I'm not sure if Scott came up with this or if this is the ancient secret passed on by those who "post less, and dive more" who knows.
My potential list of charged stuff
- Canister Light batteries (my Sartek has (2) 5.4ah battery packs for each dive)
- Canister Light back up batteries (i have 2 additional battery packs for the second dive..)
- Handset rechargeables
- Backup Handset rechargeables
- Backup to your backup handset rechargeables
- Nautilus life line for wreck diving
- GoPro USB charging
- Your iPhone or iPad or other phone
- The list goes on..
The concept is to use a milk crate as the base as it has handles and can be carried relatively easily. Then get a surge protector that will do for the amount of charging objects you need. I got a surge protector for an entertainment center so that I have 2 USB ports for my goPro and iPhone or the Nautilus lifeline uses a USB.
If you zip tie everything down nothing will move when you transport it to your car and everything will stay organized. Since there is quite a bit of room in the milk crate you can set your canister light, computer, goPro, etc inside for the transport.
Once you get to the dive site/house/yacht/mansion/remote location with a generator/cabin/trailer/tent/ or ##### house you simply plug in ONE plug and you are set to go. Once you get back from the dive you pop in all the batteries and connect everything and whallah!!! your done when you go home you unplug ONE plug and carry it to the car saving plenty of plugging and unplugging.
I hope you enjoyed this solution and feel free to comment, belittle, berate, or discourage anyone from doing this as this is an online forum and subject to your own dang opinion