London Edinburgh London 2013 - new website

[martint235]

My GPS will run for nearly 24 hours on 2AAs so I guess I'm taking 8. That'll give me an incentive to go quicker!

 

[ColinJ]

Seriously though, how many spare batteries would you need for a GPS to keep it running day and night for 5 days straight?

My old Garmin Etrex takes about 100 mA and I use 2700 mAH NiMH batteries so I would get over 24 hours use from one pair. I never ride for that long so I just recharge them after every ride.

Someone using a similar GPS and batteries would use 4 or 5 pairs in 5 days, assuming that they didn't use the backlight. (I used a headtorch when riding at night so I never used the backlight.)

 

[vorsprung]

People!

I did LEL in 2005 and guess what? I didn't use a GPS!!!

Yes, shock horror I read the excellent route sheet and carried pages out of a road atlas as a map

I went off course 3 times but only briefly

So don't worry about carrying tons of batteries. Use a route sheet.

 

[bof]

I find I can get around 45 hours out of good disposable Lithium batteries on an Etrex. I have managed to do PBP twice with one change of batteries each time. I was careful to minimise my use of the device - which I took along really just to log my ride.

 

[Shaun]

Sorry, I'm a bit late getting to this - should have done it earlier - but we have a 30 page LEL thread on the go already so in the interest of keeping the discussion together I'm going to lock this thread and ask that you continue the discussion on the main thread, here:

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/london-edinburgh-london-2013-the-thread.49554/

Many thanks,
Shaun