Portable Power for the Grand Canyon - Electrical Engineers please help!

RotorCollective

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Hello,
I was fortunate enough to acquire a permit to raft the grand canyon this year. We are in the process of trying to figure out if we can bring our S800 EVO down the river with us in a series of pelican cases and be the first to shoot 4k video with the new panasonic GH4 of the Grand Canyon. Through our research, we have found that gasoline and generators are not allowed on the river at all.

We have put together what we call "The Power Plan" and wanted to get everyones input on what you think. This is a way for us to charge our lipos, and hopefully our GoPro and HDSLR batteries as well. We will also be bringing a Macbook Air for footage dumps, but will only use it every few days.

Please feel free to tear it apart, point out its flaws etc. We did the best we could with the research we could do, but we are not electrical engineers. I know some of you talented people would eat this right up! Thank you in advance for any help or input. Trying to figure out if it is worth our time/risk to take it all down the river with us! Enjoy!


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tstrike

pendejo grande
you could fit an awful lot of lipos in a case smaller than it would take to haul all that around and plan your shooting accordingly. The Colorado is crowded in the summer, you're not going to be able to fly where ever and when ever it strikes you. Sounds like a fun trip though!
 

RotorCollective

New Member
Thank you for the input! Maybe only getting 1 to 2 flights a day is more realistic, and we can just bring like 30 sets or so... Also extra batteries never hurt, not sure what we would do with all this equipment after this job... :)
 

tstrike

pendejo grande
after about the fourth day of a float trip, you're kinda ready to get bak to wifi and in-n-out burgers.
 

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