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Originally Posted by wacattack
What "new school" fields do you know of that has a mains power supply to connect to?? Most of the tracks here in the UK do not have power supplies for racers to plug into as they tend to be in the middle of nowhere therefore a 12v battery is essential.
I use a leisure caravan battery which is brilliant. It stores enough charge for both me and the bulk to do a full weekends national without needing to charge it back up
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Sorry, but every track I've been to since the Dark Ages has a lap counting system in place that requires 120v power - and the racers are thus supplied with the availablity to use that same power to power up their power supplies. What are you guys using for lap-counting, hand charts?
Even back in the old days, when we were toting 12v batts to the track (and Novak sold gel cells), someone always brought a portable generator that everyone could run an extension cord to so as to power their equipment. Even at large races, with hundreds of racers and many pitting out of trailers, the sound of portable generators is commonplace.
Like I said, haven't seen a 12v battery brought to the track in years and years.
I had no idea you Brits had it so rough. My apologies.
But please don't take me to task when I did offer a full explanation of "do's and dont's" to answer the OPs question in full.
