what's going on guys I'm here in western mongolia! no... i'm here in central mongolia actually
but soon we will be off the grid in western mongolia on this series
and obviously you haven't seen those videos yet but you will and in those
videos you'll see that we don't have electricity for a long time but we got
through it and we're already here in central mongolia like 13 days into our
trip and not once if we struggled to have battery life on our electronics and
as you can see by this table we have a lot of electronics we've been filming so
much footage greg's here with me greg shooting the b-roll so be sure to go
subscribe to his channel to see the behind the scenes stuff that he's
filming and yeah basically Greg's kind of in control of making sure everything
stays charged and everything stays backed up and shooting the b-roll so he
basically he's doing all the work and I'm just having the fun so I'm gonna
kind of talk about how we're making that happen on this trip and how we've
survived these I guess 13 days while only having electricity one day and it's
been through some energy conservation but also some energy creation and it's
been a lot of fun actually doing it I got to jump in because I forgot to say
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So I'm gonna walk you through all the gear that we need to
charge on this trip and then show you how we're charging it so the in fact let
me get rid of the lenses because we don't need to charge lenses 100 to 400
millimeter F one point for 35 are F 1 point 8 what is that 24 to 72 point 8
that's it for lenses so the things we need to charge
Greg's filming this on his EOS are we need to charge that obviously Greg's gh5
obviously takes batteries he's got the zhiyun Crane plus I believe that is that
also takes batteries of course I have the RP which I'm using to vlog on I also
have the R that needs to be charged phones Greg's got a huawei 20 something
I've got the pixel 4 in this awesome case then we've got one drone there's
actually two drones but we've only using one so one Mavic to pro one
obviously remote control and then there's five batteries that I didn't put
on this table because there was no room but we've got five batteries for the
drone drone batteries last about twenty five minutes but the reality is you can
really only get twenty two twenty three out of them I think that's all that
needs to be charged oh and this power bank and this power bank is the key to
our future this power bank is by bull zero
it's the Sherpa one hundred AC and what that 100 AC means is essentially it does
AC power it kicks out AC power so it's got those two skinny European plugs and
so you can charge things like camera batteries and drone batteries and
laptops with it quite quickly it says it is twenty five thousand six hundred
milliamp hours 94.7 watt hours and essentially what it's meant is that with
this fully charge we can charge a laptop two times we can charge a drone battery
we can charge like three drone batteries more or less and we can charge about
five a OSR batteries we can charge about ten of these our P batteries or the
smaller batteries or the Lumix batteries and it means that we're totally charged
but the reality is when you're offline as much as we have you can't just
survive on one of these things so what's cool is we have solar panels this is
also by goal zero and in fact you know what I'm gonna make a blog post on Oh
there'll be a link below in the description of this video to a blog post
that I've written that's going to include all this gear so to show you
guys how we've done photography off the grid here in Mongolia this is also my
goal zero this is the goal zero Nomad twenty eight plus and this charges up to
twenty watts in in that if it's in the Sun like this it'll suck in about twenty
eight twenty eight Watts worth of electricity this connects it
can connect in two ways it can connect to the Sherpa one hundred AC and like
build this power bank or it can charge with a USB it can charge you know
anything that charges with USB so cell phone or a different power bank or
anything I've been finding it's called the twenty eight plus I've been
finding the max that have been able to suck in is about 18 watts so it doesn't
reach 28 but 18 is fine and I'm gonna jump you back to the field in western
mongolia to show you us using this in you know in the field
okay so we're just having lunch and this kind of how we've been using this the
gold zero nomads out this is the Sherpa the nomads charging this it's really
sunny so this is the best it's done but it's reading 18 watts in which means
three a three point eight hour still full charge I guess that would be five
hours for like a full charge for the full thing this one's only at 34% so
basically every time we're out at lunch or stop for coffee I pull this out in
and get a little bit of a charge Greg just charged his entire laptop with this
thing and it sucked about I think it was like 50% of the juice of the battery so
it's coming in handy so far yeah I'm gonna get a suntan just the same as the
solar panels do the backup process has been pretty fine to be honest it's I
mean Greg's been doing it so I don't know how fine that's actually been but
it's been quite fine we're not only just backing up for ourselves but we're
leading a workshop here in Mongolia so we're actually like backing up for
everybody else as well and we've been able to do it on the was hit myself in
the face almost all of it on Greg's Dell XPS 15 with a couple hard drives you
guys know I use mostly SanDisk SSDs I also use these this is a LaCie hard
drive this is four terabytes will take a lot of a lot of stuff so we've been
backing everything up on this Greg also uses Samsung this is the t5 SSD so he
likes to edit when he's out in the field a little bit so he's been able to edit
with our power system yeah that portable the samsung portable SSD t5 I think this
is one terabyte right yeah so you use that I tend to use the SanDisk ones I
think there's a little bit of shadow so Greg is gonna crank up the crank up the
exposure there's clouds moving in and out so the exposures changing I'm sorry
about that charging the this is like just an AC adapter that charges USB I've
been using that a lot the Canon is an american-style so we have an
adapter for that one of the participants also has an adapter that goes right into
USB for the EOS our batteries which are the LPE 6 so we've been charging with
USB as well directly from the power bank Greg's got his EU and Krane batteries as
well and we've been using again the power bank for that
I honestly think that's all of all I need to talk about the backups been easy
it's been a little bit of work the end of the day we go in we dump all the
files we leave them on the on the hard drive or on the SD cards and the CF
cards and whatever else we have and we've been backing them up and to be
honest it's been not as much of a struggle as we thought I don't think
there's been a single day that we've been like hey we're out of batteries
we're in trouble we can't film anything myself only suffered a little bit but
other than that we've been good and that's it for the gear so I'm gonna talk
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us here in Mongolia were kind of ending in live time but in vlog time we're just
starting the adventure still starting lots of adventures in western mongolia
with Eagle hunters with epic mountains and with quite a few misadventures
coming up so be sure to stay subscribed stay tuned and I'll see you guys next
week peace
you