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Old 09-30-14 | 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by physdl
To those advocating 2 or 3 lights front and rear, how do you deal with charging them all? I currently use a total of three lights and it's a pain to charge them all, particularly since one uses microusb (Solas Niterider), one uses miniusb (Cygolite Metro), and one is proprietary (Blackburn Flea rear).
I have an Anker 5 port 40 watt charger - it can charge 5 things at once even if they're drawing a lot of power. It's an awesome charger and is only $25. It auto-detects what kind of thing is plugged in, iPhone, Android, tablet, iPad, whatever, and switches the port to match the attached device.

My lights only need charging every 3 or 4 days of riding. I just plug one set in as soon as I get home, switch to another before bed if needed. I don't have that many lights but I have one or two cameras to charge as well, and I have my phone on the charger every night and a pair of bluetooth headsets that I swap out every 2 days or so.

Sometimes I charge stuff at work, I just plug it into the PC where there are 4 USB plugs and I have a handful of cables (they're about $3 each, buy a bunch).

You likely have MANY USB ports available to plug things into, and cables are cheap.
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