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I looked in another geocachers ride the other day and saw the array of gadgets and power 12v power cables. Yesterday, after parking on the side of the road all a tilt, I had to move the gps power cable around the Sirius reciver and having to unplug one of the cell phone power adapters I got caught in the twisted cord from the radar detector. It looked like a bad hair day had happened right over the radio display or an electronic yarn ball had exploded near the vent.

 

No pda/laptop (yet) but there is 2 cell phones (work and home phone), Sirius, radar detector, and now the gps power cord and only 3 outlets.

 

Looks like its time to run some seperate power or direct back to the panel.

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My work vehicle has the following:

 

High band radio, with power remote speaker

Low band radio

Vehicle repeater

Amateur Radio, with power remote speaker

CB radio

GPS

Laptop with aircard

Work cell phone (hands free mount installed)

Personal Cell phone

 

It also has a heavy duty battery and high output alternator

 

My personal truck has:

 

GPS

Two Amateur Radios

Cell phone (hands free mount installed)

 

In both vehicles, the power is taken directly from the battery via an installed heavy duty power strip. All body panels, the hood, rear doors (in the case of the work vehicle), bed (in the case of my truck) have all been grounded to the frame. Every device is also grounded directly on both vehicles.

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GPS-V - Mounted on Dash - Stays in truck

GPS-60C - Used in the field, but plugs in in car to save battery

Cell Phone

NiMH Battery Charger - Don't leave home without it!

150W Inverter - Normally to run the laptop, but can run any small 110v device

 

Also in the truck but only plugged in when needed / charging

Air Compressor / Backup 12V battery

2 Million Candle Power "BFL"

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Way too many!

 

700w Inverter cabled to battery

EarthMate GPS cabled to laptop

Laptop with power cable

TV with power and antenna cables, roof-mount antenna

CB with power and antenna cables, roof-mount antenna

Kenwood mobile dual-band ham rig with power and antenna cables, roof-mount antenna

Kenwood Handi-Talkie (portable) dual-band ham rig with power and antenna cables, roof-mount antenna

ICOM Handi-Talkie tri-band ham rig with power cord

Cell phone with charger and antenna cables, roof-mount antenna

Dash-mount speaker for CB, and cable

Dash-mount speaker for ham, power and radio cables

Ray-O-Vac 15 min. battery charger

Magellan Meridian Platinum with power cable

Magellan Meridian Basic (I keep found waypoints in the MeriBase and Unfound in the MeriPlat, which has a compass)

Palm Tungsten T5 and charger

Sony Clie and charger

Digital camera with power and computer cables.

 

Unwired stuff includes

4 FRS/GMRS Radios

2 Headlamps

4 D-cell handheld flashlights

2 dry-cell (the big square thingies) flashlights

Electronic compass

 

Seriously - all that and more is in my truck every trip! And, believe it or not, I use every bit of it!

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