Top 3 Anker devices for traveling?

#21
  1. LC90
  2. Liberty Air
  3. Powercore 13000
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#22

6 port USB power hub
Power core (different size depending on trip length)
Assortment of Anker cables for my different devices

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#23

Woah. You pack and travel with the powerport 6? Isn’t that a little troublesome?

#24

It’s only like 4" x 3" its smaller compared to the battery I pack. lol

I travel enough I just have one in my duffel bag that stays there among other things.

#25

It isn’t so much the size, as I also don’t really see a use for it (for me anyway). I guess it it benefits you, than bring it everywhere! :joy:. I have the powerport 5… I love it! But I leave it at my desk :grin:

#26

I kind of need it… lol

  • Phone
  • SmartWatch
  • Travel Router
  • Travel Battery
  • iPad
  • MiFi

I have other things that need charging but those are the primary things that get plugged in when I go to bed at night while on the road.

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#27

If security wasn’t like it is, I’d travel like I used to … Multi-tool, pocket knife, torch, cotton wool balls, first aid kit, spare water bottle, compass

Now, it’s just the tech n maybe a torch, powerbank, charger and lead, plus a small charger lead

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#28

Hmm, someone more of a geek than me?

You take a travel router - why? To turn hotel Ethernet into Wifi?

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#29

Well it is only carry-on knife / tools which have restrictions. I only travel with carry-on so yes I miss having a tool with me. I keep a Leatherman tool in UK for when i visit. Within USA you can carry-on specifically designed products

https://www.leatherman.com/tsa

#30

Mostly for my Chromecast and door sensor. They won’t connect to networks with captive portals easily, so my travel router has a SSID that they always connects to. Also nice having a single SSID for all my devices to connect to instead of having to login to the captive portal every-time.

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Best portable travel battery powered router?
#31

Ahh, I got ya, make your router be the MAC address to authenticate to the hotel’s network and then all your devices behind the router don’t have to and simply work. Clever!

I can make a cheap battery powered router probably, you given be a reason to! Hint involves a small ARM based motherboard not needing more than USB power.

I moved this to another thread as its about some things Anker doesn’t (yet) make.

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#32

I use a HooToo TripMate Nano, works pretty well!

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#33

I use ravpower file hub plus

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#34

I take a my special cooking knife and a sharper with me.
And a tool to remove fish scales when travelling to certain countries.

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#35

The TSA get made when I try to bring any objects that are longer than 3 inches and are pointy

They even made a twitter to post all the things they find in my bags when I travel

:confused:

#36

Of course I can not take the knife on board.
But to carry it with the normal luggage there is no problems.

Some time ago I forgot my pocket knife.
I had to hand it over to the security and got a confirmation.
When heading home I was given it back! :grin:

#37

Ah, unless I am gone for more then 6 days I only travel with a carry on

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#38

I not travelled with more than 40L, carry-on, for over a decade. There simply is not enough things anyone needs which exceeds that. If I am camping, carrying my house on my back, does not exceed 40L, so by definition if I’m not carrying a house, its even less.

If I challenge someone’s needs I get “but I might need it…”, basically just fear manifesting as excuses. Our brains are the most complex structures in the observable universe, but apparently we need a pair of shoes more than are on our feet? Come on…

Wearing:

  • Merino wool top, long sleeve in winter, short sleeve in summer + rolldown arm warmers.
  • thin walking trousers
  • general purpose shoes appropriate to the trip
  • phone
  • headphones, e.g. Anker Soundbuds Life.

Carrying:

  • another wool top. “but what if its cold?” wear both briefly, the one you’re wearing and the carried one. Merino lasts 4-7 days between washes.
  • another pair of walking trousers. These last 2-3 days between washes and you can wash in a sink in soap and hang, drip dry, in 1-2 days easily so you rotate between them to get to infinite days
  • underwear, about 4-5 in total and wash these every couple of days, to get to infinite days. How to wash? It’s a sink, hot water, a bar of soap, total effort is about 1-2 minutes per day.
  • waterproof or insulating jacket, appropriate to the season,e.g. to travel in winter in subzero is my down parka, in summer in damp its just a thin windproof and carry an umbrella
  • down vest if highly varying weather location
  • waterproof or windproof over-trousers to the weather, at a pinch you wear theses if your 2 trousers end up in the wash around the same time and not quite dry, in winter you wear these over your walking trousers.
  • laptop / tablet appropriate to the trip
  • Anker Powerport, 2 to 5 ports
  • Anker Powercore, I find 2 ports and 13Ah about enough to last 1-2 days
  • Anker Powerline cables.
  • Buff, for sun, cold, block your eyes to sleep on flights

The maximum total volume comes in winter if visiting highly variable conditions, e.g. the physically biggest volume comes from cities like New York who over a period of a couple of weeks varies between 20F freezing windy cold to above zero rain, so it needs a waterproof insulation coat, long sleeved, full length front zip and big pockets, and an insulated hood for the ears. Such a coat is about 10L volume. The minimum total volume is actually consistently subzero as you do not need waterproofs, you need a down parka and they squish smaller than waterproofs, about 2L.

Then when you encounter the person who says “what if…”

  • in rare situations you need something, buy it where you are. It’s planet Earth, not the Moon. Shops exist everywhere.
  • Borrow it. Borrow a sweater if you visit somewhere colder. Kindness in humanity exists ubiquitous
  • if its colder than you expected, put all the clothes you have on at the same time, layering, you’re carrying total of 3+ layers. This is rare but means you do not need to over-think the extremes.
  • change your plans, adapt. Intelligence. Use it.
  • if you bought something which exceeds your luggage, use the postal services. This has never happened but its a fall back to never need to worry about exceeding 40L luggage.

Non-Anker example products:

  • merino tops , you need 2 of these, 1 on, 1 in the wash, wear both as layers if its unexpectedly cold
  • walking trousers, quantity 2, 1 on, 1 in the wash.
  • over-trousers , wear these over your trousers if cold, windy or damp, or at a pinch as your trousers if your regular ones are not quite out of the wash
  • waterproof trousers, I find these tend to not be required much, but if you’re outdoors a lot in cool damp conditions you have these instead of the above.
  • coat for winter wet conditions (your physically biggest item)
  • parka for winter subzero , this packs smaller than the above
  • coolish dampish jacket
  • down vest
  • winter Buff, or summer Buff
#39

Not all are minimalists like you.
When I took a look at my wife’s luggage I understand you! :grin:

#40

I get it, we’re not equal, some are superior to others. We can either educate or wait for natural selection to filter out non-minimalists. Every decision is either an heirloom or landfill. Life is a journey, not a wardrobe.