Charging EOS R6 when camping

[dadya06]

Hey,

I am currently about to climb up Kilimanjaro and that got me thinking: what is the preferred way to charge the eos line (R6 in my case) while on the go, when wall outlets aren’t available?

[p4pictures]

You can charge from a suitable high capacity power bank. You need to use a cable that can deliver the required current. It is unlikely that any USB-A to USB-C cable is suitable, you need to use USB-C to USB-C. I have a few such cables that are rated for 20Gbps data and 240W power and these work. 

The EOS R6 will only charge when switched off. However the weight of the power bank is probably more than a few spare LP-E6P batteries, and the new LP-E6P have additional capacity over the standard LP-E6NH that the camera was supplied with. 

[kvbarkley]

Car chargers are also available to top you off before you start.

[karmlol]

I sometimes go camping and have tried several options, and/or combinations of them. The available options are:

• Using a battery charger with a wall outlet
• Using a battery charger with a car charging outlet
• Directly charging from a powerbank
• Directly charging from a solar panel
• Bringing extra batteries

I've tried and used combinations of all of these but the car charger. I'll skip the wall outlet one. My experience and notes:

• Using a dual charger on a car outlet would probably be the most economic.
• Bringing extra batteries is probably the easiest and most lightweight option if car charging isn't available.
• Using a solar panel would require it to be very large and heavy, quite sunny, and requires an intermediate power bank. Even then, on sunny days, I still needed to use a wall charger to complement the solar panel in keeping my bower banks charged over the course of a week. (I used a BigBlue 36W solar panel, which is not small but would only partially charge my larger power banks due to inefficiencies and inconsistent sun coverage).
• Power banks are required to be "PD" specced in order to charge directly off them. (PD stands for "Power Delivery", it's a protocol that it needs to support. If it does, it WILL be mentioned in the specs.)
• Using camera USB charging, you can only charge the one battery that is inside it.

My overall recommendation is to bring lots of spares if you're going to be away from outlets for a long time, and to use car or wall chargers when near an outlet. This is less weight than using a powerbank. A solar panel needs to be too large and heavy to really be a sensible option, at least in my area and for my use cases. Perhaps with a car and a larger solar panel experiences could be different.