Battery life via canbus without engine running
- Thread starter GS Bloke
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I want to know how to recharge my phone with an air bed pump
Wapping said:
Simple:
You have a small wind-powered generator into which you plug your phone-charger. The air bed pump is used to drive the vanes of the wind-generator.
When at your chosen camping spot, you can plug them both into the bike when not re-charging your phone: the air bed pump running from the bike, turns the wind-powered generator which in turn re-charges your bike battery.
Of course, if you have a 1200 you will need the special adaptor that over-rides the CanBus and allows the new, free electricity, to fill-up the battery.
You will also need a back-up truck to carry your air bed and tent, cos all this will use-up the available pannier space (get something reliable, so Land Rover is out
).(Some people have no imagination)
we bought 3 single airbeds last year in the south of france, they are the fabric type and about 6 inches deep, i bought an electric pump from the campsite shop and we used my bike to pump them all up everynight without the engine running with no problems,
I did it from the socket on the bike without it cutting out at all, mind you it wouldn't power bouncers hairdryer
bloody women and their gadgets,
hey rob what bedfordshire village are you in, I was born and bred in Barton-Le-Cley near luton, though have now moved to wellingborough but my sister still lives there
I did it from the socket on the bike without it cutting out at all, mind you it wouldn't power bouncers hairdryer
bloody women and their gadgets,hey rob what bedfordshire village are you in, I was born and bred in Barton-Le-Cley near luton, though have now moved to wellingborough but my sister still lives there
Simple:
You have a small wind-powered generator into which you plug your phone-charger. The air bed pump is used to drive the vanes of the wind-generator.
When at your chosen camping spot, you can plug them both into the bike when not re-charging your phone: the air bed pump running from the bike, turns the wind-powered generator which in turn re-charges your bike battery.
Of course, if you have a 1200 you will need the special adaptor that over-rides the CanBus and allows the new, free electricity, to fill-up the battery.
You will also need a back-up truck to carry your air bed and tent, cos all this will use-up the available pannier space (get something reliable, so Land Rover is out
(Some people have no imagination)
I imagined it would be something like that, but was too nervous (and tight fisted) to try. Please could you tell me the best place to buy a wind generator (with weblinks).
I do though thank you for the time you have taken to supply an indepth answer to Bill's question and, in doing so, appear to have solved the world's energy problems. Wealth and a Nobel prize await you.
PS Bill, of course, already knows plenty about Land Rover's reliability, though.
You have my sympathy mate, I was born in Wollaston.
we're at the posh end,
is there a posh end of wellingborough
I can see why you moved away,
GS Bloke
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Using my trusty multimeter I discovered that the amperage draw on my 12v airbed pump is 2 amps and my 12v tyre pump is 2.3 amps so no worries about the canbus 5 amp limit. 
