Charging stations are nature’s way of telling us we have way too many different types of batteries for our gear. For some, our “charging station” is just a loose pile of chargers haphazardly arranged on our desks. For others, they’re an organised work of our that allows us to charge and store our batteries with expedience and simplicity. In this video, filmmaker and YouTuber Duncan Dimanche shows us how he’s arranged his DIY charging station. He built it for only $35 (not including the cost of the chargers, obviously) and it’s all powered from a single USB charging station.
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In the video, Duncan talks about his needs, and how the system comes together to provide him with some modularity and easy access to all of his chargers, as well as how he fixes and reinforces the cable connections to help prevent them from disappearing back through the holes or becoming damaged. It’s a very neat idea, and if you’ve got multiple phones, action cameras, camera sliders and other devices that charge from USB anyway, then it’s definitely going to be very useful. Personally, though, it would take me too long to charge all of my other batteries over USB. With more than a dozen Nikon batteries, another dozen Panasonic batteries, and who knows how many NP-F batteries, I need to be able to charge them more quickly. So I think I’d still go with a mains-powered board that lets me use my 120/240v chargers. You can see an example of that type of charging station here. How about you? Can you charge all you need to from USB?
