Scarlet: Question and an Answer

[Terry VerHaar]

I'll drain two batteries - rolling the whole way - just for you, Terry.

Let's test this out. I'll report back.

Cool. Thanks!

[Mike Garrick]

Hey Peter, in between sips of whisky and watching battery power drain away. I'm assuming you can only do this because you got a sidehandle shipped as well as the camera ?

[Doug Beatty]

Hey Peter, in between sips of whisky and watching battery power drain away. I'm assuming you can only do this because you got a sidehandle shipped as well as the camera ?

I'll field this one, Peter. Yes.

How would I know sight unseen? My good friend POE told me (Process Of Elimination). There is no way to use redvolts without a side handle or a battery module, and the battery module isn't out until January 19th according to Jarred

Give it up for critical thinking, everybody!

[Peter Matthes]

ditto. . . I'm selecting recorded clips but playback is greyed out and oddly when metadata is viewed there is NONE....
bringing clips into RCX via the red station is fine.

edit/update: cycled power by removing a/c completely and ejected and psychically reinserted mags and could playback previously recorded clips. not sure why it wouldnt work immediately but there it is now

Thanks Joe. I'll give that a try.

My report on the Redvolts is that I ran two fully charged, first charge, Redvolts with the camera rolling non-stop.
All the standby conditions were replicated.

Battery #1 ... 39 minutes 20 seconds
Battery #2 ... 39 minutes 45 seconds

So ... you were right Terry. There is basically little to no difference.

[Peter Matthes]

I'll field this one, Peter. Yes.

How would I know sight unseen? My good friend POE told me (Process Of Elimination). There is no way to use redvolts without a side handle or a battery module, and the battery module isn't out until January 19th according to Jarred

Give it up for critical thinking, everybody!

Hey Mike,

Yes ... I am using the side handle.


I actually received my side handle a month or so before the Scarlet body. I was lucky to be online when they were added to the Red store.

[Terry VerHaar]

Thanks Joe. I'll give that a try.

My report on the Redvolts is that I ran two fully charged, first charge, Redvolts with the camera rolling non-stop.
All the standby conditions were replicated.

Battery #1 ... 39 minutes 20 seconds
Battery #2 ... 39 minutes 45 seconds

So ... you were right Terry. There is basically little to no difference.

Thanks, Peter. It's always nice to discover you understand something correctly, but even better is the fact that some power management will give us all better REDvolt yields!!

[Philipe Ratton]

40 minutes rolling, great news ! I was expecting some trouble with 6 revolts and 3 charges but I reckon I'm gonna be just fine !