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Re: The 500th Mile

Posted By: Robert Woodard
Date: Sunday, 10 October 1999, at 6:55 p.m.

In Response To: Re: The 500th Mile (Mike Scarborough)

> I'm probably missing something that everyone else already knows, but my
> kayaks don't have cigarette lighter adapters or batteries. What other
> accessories does your kayak have?

They don't?!?!? I thought they were standard equipment 8^)

I put in a cigarette lighter adapter in parallel with the electric pump. My GPS can run about 20 hours on 4 AA batteries, so I'm pretty sure it can run a good long time on the 12v gel cell without having too much drain. Beats the heck out of replacing the GPS batteries every 3-4 trips (I leave the GPS on to record the track. It's what draws the black line in my trip reports).

In a pinch I've used the adapter to power my cell phone the one time I forgot to charge the battery before I left. Now if I can just figure out where to mount the depth finder transponder so I can avoid underwater obstacles 8^)

Woody

Messages In This Thread

The 500th Mile
Robert Woodard -- Saturday, 9 October 1999, at 5:26 p.m.

Re: The 500th Mile
lee -- Saturday, 9 October 1999, at 11:31 p.m.

Re: The 500th Mile
Robert Woodard -- Sunday, 10 October 1999, at 11:37 a.m.

Re: The 500th Mile
Mike Scarborough -- Sunday, 10 October 1999, at 1:17 p.m.

Re: The 500th Mile
Ian Johnston -- Sunday, 10 October 1999, at 1:40 p.m.

Re: The 500th Mile
Robert Woodard -- Sunday, 10 October 1999, at 6:55 p.m.

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