Goal Zero Nomad 7 Solar Panel 4000 Mile Review | Battery Storage for The Great Divide MTB Route.
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Welcome back everybody, Talking about The Goal Zero Nomad 7 Solar Panel today. I used this solar panel on my 2021 4000 Mile Coast To Coast Bicycle Tour last year. The Nomad 7 performed as well as expected. Eerytime I needed power on a sunny day the panel worked flawlessly. I plan on taking The Nomad 7 as well as The Goal Zero Flip 24 battery packs that work perfectly with the panel. Hopefully this panel will be on many trips to come. Stay tuned everybody, and catch you on the trail.
New intro. I’m guessing Scrap Cat was the mastermind behind that.
The scrap monkey mentioned it wouldn’t be a bad idea to step up with some graphics. Scrap has my back, scrap’s alright.
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Love the new graphic! I have always heard it’s best to charge a power bank from a solar panel or even a dyno hub as it can hurt the phone’s battery. Thanks for the great review!
Hey thanks! A friend of mine is a heck of an artist, and he Thru a few graphics together for me. I plugged my phone in direct to the panel a few times trying it out. I just don’t feel good about it. Thanks for watching.
13 seconds in, love the animation for the introduction.
Hey, thanks. A good friend of mine is a very talented artist. Hope you made it to the end. Be cool.
@@TravelingThru222 I totally did make it to the end I always watch videos through and through. I thought I carried a lot of charges but you beat me lol but myself and everyone else appreciate all the work you put into your videos.
@@livingsimplytosimplylive6817 Thanks for the kind words, my friend. Carrying crazy electronic weight this year, trying to do a great job on my rendition of The GDMBR. Catch you on the highway.
Great info, thanx dude.
Looks like something I want!
Ride Safe!
New $124, mine was refurbished may have been $80. The Nomad has never let me down. I would buy it again. Thanks for watching.
Love the new intro! Excellent! Thanks!
Great, I’m digging the new intro as well. Thanks for watching.
Very helpful thanks. I will be purchasing one
Glad it was helpful!
You start talking about weights and makes me start thinking about all the crap I bring on my commute that I never even use but I freaking know the day I leave it
Ditch everything except a tube and the pump.
Thanks for the video. That's a lot of power storage. I was surprised. You have worked out what you need through experience, so I don't have anything to add. It was eye opening to see how much you have to carry to keep us all posted. Thanks.
Thanks for watching. I’ll try to keep those cameras charged up and film everything when I’m out there. I’m really looking forward to getting back out there. Much more to come.
@@TravelingThru222 You've been preparing for a while. I bet you are anxious to get out there and see how it goes.
Like you pointed out, I think those solar panels work great in extremely sunny areas. They have certainly come a long way.
For batteries, I've had pretty good luck with Anker products, but a few years ago I switched over to using a charger/battery bank (XTAR PB2S) that took 18650 batteries. 18650 batteries are what is actually inside most battery packs. It's mainly an experiment, but the concept is as the batteries reach their end of life, I would just swap them out of the rotation. Plus I can find 18650 batteries pretty easily. So far the only downside is that the batteries can sometimes bounce around and lose connection with the charger, so it doesn't work well with charging things while riding, but I usually charge everything up at the end of the day anyway.
I hear Anker makes some great products. If I pick up any other banks I’m going to stick with Goal Zero products for compatibility while the panel is still functional. I should be able to get a lot of direct sunlight on The Divide while I ride, I’m thinking. Catch you on the road.
Great video. I have a small Goal Zero battery pack. It works great. Eventually I will buy one of their solar panels.
Thank you for the Goal Zero review. I've been eyeballing their product.
It’s a great panel, works every time there’s sun. Hope it doesn’t let you down.
Like you new intro graphic. Looks like you have your charging situation well under control.
Hey, thanks. Hopefully this is enough juice.
Looks like a ton of battery power. You can be off grid for quite a while with that much I'm sure. Can't wait to see your next trip.
Oh yeah, should be able to keep up with battery loss with this setup. The trip will be the true test. More to come, stay tuned.
I've been interested in hearing about this since your trip last summer. I think most of my touring is probably too much in the shade for it to work for me though....
I hear ya. It’s not great on Rails Trails, but works well riding on the road. I would specifically take breaks in sunny spots when on trail, or when trapped in the canopy. The Nomad should work well on The Divide, it really seems like open, bombing gravel. Lots of sun.
Nice animation. How's Henry doing?
Smells like a pretty good cat. doing what he does. Swatting my face in the middle of the night. Being a cat.
smaller batterys around 5000mah charge faster then bigger batterys because of the resistance that they bigger ones have, a solar panel or dynamo has trouble with that
I run with dynamo and take 2x 5000 with me instead of my 10000 or 20000 one they take way longer to charge. I gues that its the same with a solar panel as with a dynamo
Ill keep that in mind, thanks for the tips. Catch you on the road.
It’s a media circus!
We need a good charger pack ugh
Ive had great luck with Joway. Hope your journey is going well. Can’t wait to see the footage.
@@TravelingThru222 thanks we head into DC today
Myself not a big electronics guy.
I hear ya, this is really the most I’ve ever carried.
You seem so focused on vague immeasurable metrics. Meh! Deliver simple math-measurable specs that actually say something. There is not much to know, & it is not complicated.
Your battery pack is rated at X number of Milli Amp Hours, something like 20,000 MAH (20,000 1/1,000ths = 2 Amps for 1 Hour or 1 Amp for 2 Hours), as is your phone. Your solar panel supplies USB rated up to 7 watts in bright sunlight.
Standard USB power is 5 Volts DC, rated at some number of Amps such as 1 Amp or 2 Amps (read your power supply).
Volts x Amps = Watts. Amps x Hours = Amp Hours. Milli = 1/1000th. Since your solar panel is rated up to 7 Watts, mathemizing backwards tells you (7 Watts / 5 Volts = 1.4 Amps) it is delivering up to 1.4 Amps or 1,400 Milli Amps. Over the span of 1 hour that means 1.4 Amp Hours or 1,400 Milli Amp Hours.
So your solar panel is rated to take at least (20,000 MAH battery / 1,400 MAH solar panel = 14.28) 14 hours to fully charge a fully dead battery pack rated at 20,000 MAH. This is why your solar charging success rate is so much more noticeable in full sunlight over a long time.
The battery pack that will not charge from the solar panel may have a minimum voltage or amperage requirement that the solar panel does not meet. Or a bent or dirty prong in the plug or jack that doesn't make adequate electrical contact.
My immeasurable metrics are based on experience. Wow, you had time for this.