Wrekin Orienteers have recently bought a battery pack to take the place of the petrol generator to power download at our events.
This will benefit everyone by reducing the noise and fumes around the download area, as well as avoiding having trailing power cables that can present a trip hazard. It’s also smaller and lighter than the generator, and last but not least, more energy efficient.
The battery pack made its first appearance at the Summer Saturday Series event at Telford Town Park on July 2nd. Richard Rogers, who was running download that day, commented “The battery pack was a dream to use: I could have it out of everyone’s way in the download tent as it’s clean and silent in use. It’s easy to use, too: quick to charge and then just plug the laptop and printer straight in. And it had bags of power and to spare, so bigger events won’t be a problem”