Building a travel tech pack

I travel a week in a month for work and I've stopped taking my power bank when I travel. The amount of plug sockets and charger ports available in airports, planes and hotels means I've never been caught short.
 
panthro said:
I travel a week in a month for work and I've stopped taking my power bank when I travel. The amount of plug sockets and charger ports available in airports, planes and hotels means I've never been caught short.
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Same here. These days only place I've even needed an adapter is a company office.

I do take a tech pack, but rarely have any use for it.
 
panthro said:
I travel a week in a month for work and I've stopped taking my power bank when I travel. The amount of plug sockets and charger ports available in airports, planes and hotels means I've never been caught short.
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This is true. Airports are full of sockets to charge things, even on economy flights have a USB socket too. Just sometimes it can be USB-A, so I just carry a small 10,000mha one for my phone. I never work in a cafe to a point where I need to recharge the laptop.
 
panthro said:
I travel a week in a month for work and I've stopped taking my power bank when I travel. The amount of plug sockets and charger ports available in airports, planes and hotels means I've never been caught short.
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I sometimes take this train - no power outside of the sleeper/couchettes:

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They don't connect those Hungarian MAV carriages until about 5am which is 15 hours into the journey.
 
Diddums said:
We travel a fair amount and occasionally get caught out in the tech department so I'm building a pack with some goodies:

Usb c to hdmi adapter
Hdmi lead
Fire stick / Chromecast
Battery bank
2x chargers
2x multi-cables
Usb sticks with films
Travel adapters


The aim is to never run out of juice, and if we do, charge quickly, and also never have to watch telly in Turkish / Czech / French / German / whatever as most hotels / resorts only have rubbish English telly, in Prague we literally had some Chinese news channel :eek:

This won't be upgraded for quite some time so I need decent stuff. It'll be dedicated to travelling only so no need to use any of it at home.

If anyone has any suggestions or bits worth adding in please do, I'm looking to make this a good little kit.
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Don't bother with the chargers, just get one of the high powered multi travel adapters. You can plug multiple USB devices into them, additionally have a UK socket for anything else, and would work in every* country in the world.

*I've not heard of countries with power sockets that fall outside of the standard norm.
 
firstborn said:
Don't overlook the restrictions on power bank capacity on flights. They seem to be looking closer at these I've noticed.
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This.
I had one that solar charged for when we did multi day hikes. Loved it. Was confiscated by security in Bangkok airport on my way to Kilimanjaro even though notoriously strict and unfair Australian security let me board in the first place.
I’ve since bought another but not taken it out of the country. Other than a hiking trip I don’t know why you’d need one anyway.
 
Frozennova said:
I don't know why I've never though of doing this, but now off to read through suggestions, and do some more research. A travel tech pack is going to be save me so many headaches
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I have a regular tech pack, which I have taken on a couple of trips. The problem is I accumulate things, too many cables in it, it is also larger than one need on a trip. Cables too long than necessary etc.

I am going to play out my set up at home like I am in a hotel with everything I need to charge plugged in, with those cables. Then pack those only.
 
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Over time you can figure out exactly what you need.. It's very easy to pack too much.

Some good advice in this thread... I still carry a small power bank but it's more an emergency measure.. It's enough to charge my phone about 3 times but would be no good for my laptop.. But to be honest I've not used the powebank for years.. I have to make sure it's charged up as I use it so infrequently.

One key thing is use the battery saver feature on your phone... And if you know you're not going to need your phone 'online' for several hours... Whack it into airplane mode... Makes a big difference of you are traveling all day.

Download music to your phone so you can listen offline. Download some games that don't require internet access etc.

Same goes for your laptop... Bang a load of films/tv and music onto it for offline use.

Also my Sony wireless ear buds have about 8 hours in them but the little pill box carry case also has a battery that basically doubles your listening time.
 
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USB-C cable 2m
Anker cube and 30w charger (does EU/US/UK)
Apple 35w (or 30w, if can’t use above) duo with travel kit for non EU/US/Uk - I do have a skross multi adaptor but I find it pretty bulky and due to it being heavier and multi fit the prongs don’t grip very good, they’re obviously smaller to fit all of them as there is a difference between the different types that look the same.
USB-C > USB micro+mini as I still have devices using these like toothbrush case
Battery pack
Covers all my bases really.

I’ve recently got a 200w 4 port usb-c charger and 2 usb-a which is just slightly bigger than a phone which maybe now my go to. Will need to get a couple of different kettle leads for different continents and it’ll be perfect.

I’ve never bought a bag/organiser though I tend to just wrap the cables and shove them in one of the slots on the organiser of my back pack and leave the adaptors the open part of that section.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Funny you started this thread, I am off for 3 weeks later this year and 1 of those I have to work on location and have put together something similar.

So far I have:-

Chromcast
USB-C to USB-C cable x 2
USB-A to USB-C cable x 2
USB-C to Lightning (can't wait to get rid of this)
65W Travel adaptor with 2x USB-C and 2x USB-A ports
65W UK adaptor with 2x USB-C port. (will provide 65w if only 1 device is plugged in, so will be my MBP power supply)
2TB SSD
USB dongle for MBP
MBP
iPad Air (so I can work dual screen)
10,00mha Battery bank
(Also have a Sharge 170 power bank but it is quite heavy and not sure I will need it)

One thing I worry is that some hotel's wifi you log in through a web portal, they don't give you a wifi password, how do you get around those? Since the Chromcast with Google TV need the Wifi passport in the settings bit.

I don't think I will need an HDMI lead since the chromcast has it built in.
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No camera?
 
Semple said:
Don't bother with the chargers, just get one of the high powered multi travel adapters. You can plug multiple USB devices into them, additionally have a UK socket for anything else, and would work in every* country in the world.

*I've not heard of countries with power sockets that fall outside of the standard norm.
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Can you recommend any? I'm finally getting round to ordering stuff and the ones that come up on Google look like they'd take a month to charge anything.

Cheers :)
 
@Diddums I'd suggest adding a tablet to the list - personally (even though I'm an Apple fan) I've just gone for a Kindle Fire HD, much better value for money if just used for movies when traveling (on a train/plane) and sometimes used at home for digital textbooks, otherwise I use a Kindle paperwhite for fiction books.

And just a little add-on for the tablet - an adapter that allows two headphones. Great for train journeys but also if you don't fancy the movie selection on the plane or have a Netflix/Prime series you're in the middle of watching with your missus then this is super useful:

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Begbie said:
I go away with work a lot, not all travelling is a holiday:)
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Yeah I'd not want TV/movies when on holiday but I certainly do when traveling with work, but typically I'd have my laptop anyway and can access Netflix or download stuff in advance.

Raymond Lin said:
One thing I worry is that some hotel's wifi you log in through a web portal, they don't give you a wifi password, how do you get around those? Since the Chromcast with Google TV need the Wifi passport in the settings bit.
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Not sure about Chromecast but Diddums also mentioned a Fire Stick and I think you can download shows on that - you certainly can download on a Kindle. So you could save a load of potential Netflix or Prime movies/TV that you might light to watch, way more than you're likely to get through and avoid the wifi issue entirely.
 
Diddums said:
We travel a fair amount and occasionally get caught out in the tech department so I'm building a pack with some goodies:

Usb c to hdmi adapter
Hdmi lead
Fire stick / Chromecast
Battery bank
2x chargers
2x multi-cables
Usb sticks with films
Travel adapters


The aim is to never run out of juice, and if we do, charge quickly, and also never have to watch telly in Turkish / Czech / French / German / whatever as most hotels / resorts only have rubbish English telly, in Prague we literally had some Chinese news channel :eek:

This won't be upgraded for quite some time so I need decent stuff. It'll be dedicated to travelling only so no need to use any of it at home.

If anyone has any suggestions or bits worth adding in please do, I'm looking to make this a good little kit.
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Get a GaN charger rated for 100w + with whatever mix of USB A / USB C ports that you need and uses a kettle power lead or one of those figure of 8 two pin ones. You can then just get a power cable with whatever plug you need on it.

Something like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Cha...=1728061841&sprefix=gan+ugreen,aps,75&sr=8-14.
 
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