This is why

[Longjohn ★]

I bring a power strip with my on week long rides.   Owl leave it here when I go to bed and pick it up in the morning before tomorrow’s ride.

[Razors Edge ★]

15 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

I bring a power strip with my on week long rides.

I find them helpful on many vacations.  Hotels & such sometimes have GREAT charging options and sometimes HORRIBLE charging options, but I'd rather have some flexibility rather than none, so I often chuck on into my luggage.

[jsharr ★]

Just how long of an extension cord do you have?   

[a bunch of numbers]

Is that a flip phone?

[sheep_herder ★]

7 minutes ago, Rick5234 said:

Is that a flip phone?

Looks like the one my wife uses.

[Longjohn ★]

10 minutes ago, jsharr said:

Just how long of an extension cord do you have?   

About four foot. I have my Garmin and my eye fone plugged in, I don’t know what all that other stuff is. I have a ten foot charging cord so I’m posting from my eye fone while it’s charging and I’m eating dinner sitting at a picnic table.

[Longjohn ★]

56 minutes ago, Rick5234 said:

Is that a flip phone?

That is my Garmin charging 

[JerrySTL ★]

I bring one of these.

[Zealot]

1 hour ago, jsharr said:

Just how long of an extension cord do you have?   

I guess if he averaged 40 miles a day for 7 days, the cord would need to at least be 280 miles long. I’d hate to calculate the circular mils necessary to compensate for the resistance of a 280 mile cord.... @Thaddeus Kosciuszko?

[Kirby]

On one of my first business trips, i was with an experienced "road warrior" who told me to always pack an extension cord.  Not only does it help when the plugs aren't conveniently placed, you never have to ask someone if you can unplug them for a bit so that you can recharge your computer.

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

1 hour ago, Zealot said:

I guess if he averaged 40 miles a day for 7 days, the cord would need to at least be 280 miles long. I’d hate to calculate the circular mils necessary to compensate for the resistance of a 280 mile cord.... @Thaddeus Kosciuszko?

Let's assume LJ needed one 20 amp circuit and an acceptable 3% voltage drop from 120V at the end of the line.

He would need for the hot conductor (500) five hundred 300kmil cables in parallel.  The cable is about 3/4" in diameter.

You couldn't put them all into a nice neat round bundle because the ones on the inside would heat up, and wouldn't carry the current you needed.  Besides, the current would exhibit something called the 'skin effect', where the electrons would tend to travel on the outer conductors and avoid the inner conductors, effectively making the conductors in the center of the bundle useless.

So, you'd have to lay them out side by side, flat, on the ground.  Just the hot conductors alone would be 3/4" per conductor x 500 conductors x 1ft/12" =~ 32 feet wide, plus another 32 feet wide for the neutral conductor.  Let's say, oh, another 16 feet or so for the ground conductor. 

Given the price of copper today, just to buy the material for such an extension cord would cost in the neighborhood of $35,000,000.  It's a safe bet the labor would be about the same, so say a round $75M for talking purposes.

[Longjohn ★]

That’s probably why they make cordless devices.

[Mr. Beanz]

4 hours ago, JerrySTL said:

I bring one of these.

Bring? I use one at home as well. 

Heck sometimes prepping for a ride is charging:

2 go pros

2 headlights

2 red blinkies

Garmin

📷 camera

And a cell phone. 😄

[Zealot]

1 hour ago, Longjohn said:

That’s probably why they make cordless devices.

Let’s not get started on batteries... I remember one engineer I rode with making a hand crank charging dynamo to charge up a phone...  😉