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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    That's a Nitecore charger (charges LiIon, LiFePO4, NiMH & NiCad) + the 12v CLA cigarette lighter adapter + an alligator clip to cigarette lighter socket adapter. If you have a car with a cigarette lighter, you can just plug the Nitecore with 12v adapter into it to charge the flashlight...
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    GoalZero has the equipment specifically for this. The Guardian 12v Plus chargd controller can be hooked up to any of their solar panels and panels can be daisy-chained. How much panel you need will be determined by how much you'll be draining/charging the battery vs how much sunlight you'll be...
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    Yes, and because it's moist, stuff grows on it very quickly. Max
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    See post #1020 Max
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    See post #1020 Max
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    Oops, my apologies. I mentioned it in an earlier post but got too lazy to keep typing it out. GAC = Granulated Activated Carbon http://www.buyactivatedcharcoal.com/product/granular_activated_charcoal/coconut/12x30_mesh Max
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    Oddly enough, I have fewer issues with safe water in the wild than in industrial or built-up areas. The one exception was while canyoning in Utah where the park ranger told us not to filter drinking water in the canyons as the filters couldn't remove heavy metal and chemical contaminants from...
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    If you trust the garbage bags not to leach any unwanted chemicals into the water that simple water filters don't remove. There are reasons why some plastics are rated food-grade and some are not. For $20 and knowing that there isn't some soap residue or other chemicals etc in the water, I'll...
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    What you're looking for is called a desalinator. None of the previously mentioned setups will make seawater drinkable. In theory, the ZeroWater pitchers remove all TDS (total dissolved solids) and in fact, one of the methods of testing the TDS meters is by using calibrated saline (salt water)...
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    Double post
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    Sawyer actually has two versions (filtration levels), the standard Sawyer filters microbes (bacteria, giardia, parasites etc) at 0.1 microns. The other filter goes down to 0.02 microns and DOES filter out viruses. Important note is that the viral filter is much slower. For home use(due to the...
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    Read the reviews for the Water Bob and Aquapod (similar concepts/products). I ended up getting the Aquapod. Max
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    Not exactly. Eco mode shuts down a lot of processes and usually dims the screen as well. It cuts the power draw to a minimum. On the subject of wasting power on cellphones, what's with the idiots who turn on the setting so the phone's flash LED is on bright the entire time they're talking on...
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    Lol, hence why I carry convenient cheap spares as 'loaners'. The 4-5 light minimum that I listed is just my EDC and I have those on me anytime I leave the house with my wallet and phone. The ONLY time I don't have those with me is if I go out WITHOUT my wallet (eg. running/biking), in which...
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    Power Outage, How many Lumens, How many batteries? (for lights and more)

    ^^^ Yup, that was what I was talking about when I mentioned how dark some corridors (and buildings) can get in a power outage when the emergency lights fail (and most of them only have battery power for evacuation, i.e. 45-60 minutes. By 90-120 minutes, most emergency backup lights are dead. Of...
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