Portable solar lighting system to charge Mavic zoom

erickx · Mar 1, 2019

Hello ,
I’m off to Norway for a 7 days journey without hotels or any place to charge my drone . We are going to sleep outside walk ski stuff like that .
I bought a yobo life lightning system
Now I find out it only has usb out for power
The Mavic charger has a net plug or a car charger .
Does any one know if I can charge the battery’s of my drone with this yobo ? Is there a adapter I can use to connect the mavic charger to usb ?
Or does anyone know a better solution for me to buy ?
Needs to be either an battery on solar power or a large but not to heavy battery that has a plug / car charger option to buy that can at least charge 3 battery’s and the smart controller ?

Please help !

Eric

Pontoon-pilot · Mar 1, 2019

THE DJI car charger is rated at 14V and 6.5 amp, so about 100watts. If your battery box can put out 6-8 amps at 12V you should be ok. Sound like your solar panel is 30 watts under ideal conditions- direct sunlight.
My assumption is that this system may be on the weak side. A car "jump starter box" could do it, it has 12V out and you could run your mavic's car charger.

dgronjord · Mar 2, 2019

Sorry, you will be better off carrying extra drone batteries than carrying a solar panel. Larger portable solar panels work quite OK during the summer in the Nordics for charging mobile phones and so on. But large drone batteries, no. It will be very slow.

Pontoon-pilot · Mar 2, 2019

True, but it seems like he will be in the wilderness for 7 days and may need night lights phone charging and what not.
You are correct, no one wants to haul around solar panels. The one that he has seem to be charging up a battery pack during the day hours, so he can have lights at night time.

AMann · Mar 2, 2019

Well, if you are using a sledge to carry your basecamp into the wilderness, this should suffice:

Goal Zero Yeti 400 Portable Power Station, 400Wh Battery Powered Generator Alternative with 12V, AC and USB Outputs https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D5RVMAM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ERXECbPY2VR8Y

Goal Zero Boulder 100 Briefcase, 100 Watt Monocrystalline Solar Panel https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y3TC113/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_HSXECbRA7ZDPG