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<h1>Charging your light (and phone)</h1>

<h2>Top camp</h2>
<p>Top camp has no mains 230V electricity. 
<p>Top camp does have solar-powered car batteries, so you need to bring a <b>12V car-type charger</b>  for your caving light and phones.
<p>At top camp there is one 12V socket with an expo-supplied plug providing a pair of USB sockets. 
Since 2 USB sockets is not enough for everyone's phones, you need to <b>bring your own</b> 12V-to-USB plug-in. 
(Providing proper permanently-wired USB charging is on our to-do list.)
<p>USB to multiple-USB (e.g. 1:4) expander boxes don't work for charging lights. 
Even for charging phones they are very, very slow. 
So if you are using USB to charge your caving light <b>you must</b> bring a light charger which <b>plugs directly into the 12V socket</b>.

<h2>Base camp</h2>
<p>Base camp has mains power and UK-style 230V mains sockets as well as EU-style mains sockets. 
So your usual UK chargers will work and you don't need to bring any converter plugs.

<p>We have one expo USB charging unit (labelled with purple gear-tape: the expo colour): 
it has 6 powered big USB sockets and we have 2 microUSB cables and 2 USB-C cables. 
People also bring their own mains-to-USB chargers but there may not be enough. 
So to be sure, <b>bring your own</b> (and label it with your gear tape). 

<h2>USB cables</h2>
You need to bring your own USB charger cable for your phone (typically big USB to micro-USB). 
Yes, there are a lot of them about, but they are nearly all personal gear. 
So <b>bring your own</b> (and a spare) and label it with your gear-tape colour.

<h2>Phone recharging battery</h2>
If you are doing a lot of surface prospecting, and especially if you are using your phone for GPS location, you will want to bring a spare battery which re-charges your phone, e.g. 
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Cell-Phones-Accessories-Portable-Phone-Power-Banks/zgbs/wireless/7073960011">one of these</a>.

<h2>Recharging drill batteries</h2>
This is much more complicated and has a <a href="charging.html">webpage dedicated to the several different chargers</a> that should be used.
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lights and phone charging 2018-07-27 12:12:19 +01:00			`<h1>Charging your light (and phone)</h1>`
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lights and phone charging 2018-07-27 12:12:19 +01:00			`<h2>Top camp</h2>`
more pictures 2018-07-28 16:23:06 +01:00			`<p>Top camp has no mains 230V electricity.`
lights and phone charging 2018-07-27 12:12:19 +01:00			`<p>Top camp does have solar-powered car batteries, so you need to bring a <b>12V car-type charger</b> for your caving light and phones.`
more pictures 2018-07-28 16:23:06 +01:00			`<p>At top camp there is one 12V socket with an expo-supplied plug providing a pair of USB sockets.`
			`Since 2 USB sockets is not enough for everyone's phones, you need to <b>bring your own</b> 12V-to-USB plug-in.`
			`(Providing proper permanently-wired USB charging is on our to-do list.)`
			`<p>USB to multiple-USB (e.g. 1:4) expander boxes don't work for charging lights.`
			`Even for charging phones they are very, very slow.`
			`So if you are using USB to charge your caving light <b>you must</b> bring a light charger which <b>plugs directly into the 12V socket</b>.`

lights and phone charging 2018-07-27 12:12:19 +01:00			`<h2>Base camp</h2>`
more pictures 2018-07-28 16:23:06 +01:00			`<p>Base camp has mains power and UK-style 230V mains sockets as well as EU-style mains sockets.`
			`So your usual UK chargers will work and you don't need to bring any converter plugs.`

			`<p>We have one expo USB charging unit (labelled with purple gear-tape: the expo colour):`
			`it has 6 powered big USB sockets and we have 2 microUSB cables and 2 USB-C cables.`
			`People also bring their own mains-to-USB chargers but there may not be enough.`
			`So to be sure, <b>bring your own</b> (and label it with your gear tape).`
How Do I sections added to handbook 2018-07-16 17:36:16 +01:00
lights and phone charging 2018-07-27 12:12:19 +01:00			`<h2>USB cables</h2>`
more pictures 2018-07-28 16:23:06 +01:00			`You need to bring your own USB charger cable for your phone (typically big USB to micro-USB).`
			`Yes, there are a lot of them about, but they are nearly all personal gear.`
			`So <b>bring your own</b> (and a spare) and label it with your gear-tape colour.`
How Do I sections added to handbook 2018-07-16 17:36:16 +01:00
lights and phone charging 2018-07-27 12:12:19 +01:00			`<h2>Phone recharging battery</h2>`
			`If you are doing a lot of surface prospecting, and especially if you are using your phone for GPS location, you will want to bring a spare battery which re-charges your phone, e.g.`
			`<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Cell-Phones-Accessories-Portable-Phone-Power-Banks/zgbs/wireless/7073960011">one of these</a>.`
How Do I sections added to handbook 2018-07-16 17:36:16 +01:00
Base camp operations guide 2018-07-28 00:53:34 +01:00			`<h2>Recharging drill batteries</h2>`
			`This is much more complicated and has a <a href="charging.html">webpage dedicated to the several different chargers</a> that should be used.`
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How Do I sections added to handbook 2018-07-16 17:36:16 +01:00
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