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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Announcing Element Technica V-Lock Module for Weapon

Jordan Buck said:
No P tap might be the decider for me, that makes no sense, I have always powered TV logic, WFF, teradek, almost everything through it.
Hopefully a few other people quickly make V mount backs that have a ptap on it.
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This would have been my opinion 2 months ago, but I just ordered a bunch of $20 2-pin Lemo cables which was less than I would pay for P-Tap. Maybe we need a group buy to fully convert over to 2-pin lemo? I mostly just need Lemo to barrel. Ironically the $20 cables were P-Tap to 2-pin so I would imagine barrel cables are even cheaper. The problem isn't intrinsically Lemo the price was my objection to lack of P-tap. P-Tap at $20 was preferable to me over Lemo at $120. However with cheap 2-pin cables available now I think it might make sense to drop my crusade to add P-Tap to everything haha. ;)
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
This would have been my opinion 2 months ago, but I just ordered a bunch of $20 2-pin Lemo cables which was less than I would pay for P-Tap. Maybe we need a group buy to fully convert over to 2-pin lemo? I mostly just need Lemo to barrel. Ironically the $20 cables were P-Tap to 2-pin so I would imagine barrel cables are even cheaper. The problem isn't intrinsically Lemo the price was my objection to lack of P-tap. P-Tap at $20 was preferable to me over Lemo at $120. However with cheap 2-pin cables available now I think it might make sense to drop my crusade to add P-Tap to everything haha. ;)
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I am guessing those aren't LEMO brand connectors are they?
 
Matthew J said:
I am guessing those aren't LEMO brand connectors are they?
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No but they're still arguably better than a plastic P-Tap plug. ;) And it's still 1/6th the price of the official ones.
 
DO watch out with off brand 2-pin lemos. I've seen it happen where you can rotate the internals 180 when the sleeve is pulled back hard - I had a FF refusing to power part way through a job and traced it to a 2-pin 'lemo' that had magically changed polarity.
 
Jordan Buck said:
No P tap might be the decider for me, that makes no sense, I have always powered TV logic, WFF, teradek, almost everything through it.
Hopefully a few other people quickly make V mount backs that have a ptap on it.
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Hey Jordan don't worry you are now getting both. And yes... Every single product you just mentioned there people have inserted P-taps in backwards and blown up in quite often fantastic displays of smoke and fire. Even worse its a 3 way compounding danger.. even if you make the best solid metal port on the camera side and put a fuse in and ground the world, just one cheap cable or one cheap accessory in the path down the line throws all that protection out the window.

Which of course is user error. And we all mistakes. But you would be incredibly shocked at the number of people who blow shit up and then proceed to call RED and try and convince us to fix their busted 3rd party stuff like it was our fault. Or when they do it on set and it brings down the entire production they point to our camera and then go hide on the roof.

But lets see how it goes... maybe the world has learned. I know the quality of the P-tap ports on pro devices is alot better now than it was 10 years ago so lets give it a chance.
 
John Marchant said:
DO watch out with off brand 2-pin lemos. I've seen it happen where you can rotate the internals 180 when the sleeve is pulled back hard - I had a FF refusing to power part way through a job and traced it to a 2-pin 'lemo' that had magically changed polarity.
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Which is why this would solve all of the problems with both cheap "lemo" and P-Tap.

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 Polarity Protection

I'm not sure why more electronics don't include this. Especially "professional" gear. If it's plugged in backwards, having the gear fried means you engineered the electronic device poorly, not the cable. For a couple cents polarity protection should be all but mandatory. I would rather have a microscopic amount of vampire power loss than the risk of a critical piece of gear fizzing out hours from a replacement.
 
Jarred Land said:
Hey Jordan don't worry you are now getting both. And yes... Every single product you just mentioned there people have inserted P-taps in backwards and blown up in quite often fantastic displays of smoke and fire. Even worse its a 3 way compounding danger.. even if you make the best solid metal port on the camera side and put a fuse in and ground the world, just one cheap cable or one cheap accessory in the path down the line throws all that protection out the window.

Which of course is user error. And we all mistakes. But you would be incredibly shocked at the number of people who blow shit up and then proceed to call RED and try and convince us to fix their busted 3rd party stuff like it was our fault. Or when they do it on set and it brings down the entire production they point to our camera and then go hide on the roof.

But lets see how it goes... maybe the world has learned. I know the quality of the P-tap ports on pro devices is alot better now than it was 10 years ago so lets give it a chance.
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Thank you for listening though - it really keeps me here the fact that you guys read this stuff.

Unfortunately I am one of those people, although it was an AC that used a wrong polarity cable causing my power board to blow through a teradek. Thank god productions insurance shelled out!
Might I add as well I was incredibly impressed with how quickly you guys fixed my camera.
 
There is something called Twist D-Tap
Twist-D-Tap: Only bebob batteries offer the unique bebob Twist-D-Tap. This rainproof socket allows you to plug a D-Tap connector into the battery with your choice of cable trailing from the left or right.

you cant go wrong with these one :)
 
Kemalettin Sert said:
There is something called Twist D-Tap
Twist-D-Tap: Only bebob batteries offer the unique bebob Twist-D-Tap. This rainproof socket allows you to plug a D-Tap connector into the battery with your choice of cable trailing from the left or right.

you cant go wrong with these one :)
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Do the Bebob batteries show charge/power on the Epic Dragon?
 
Any updates on these shipping? I know Weapons aren't shipping yet, but it would be nice to already have this in hand when the weapon arrives.
 
On June 24th ET told me "early August".
 
Jarred Land said:
Hey Jordan don't worry you are now getting both. And yes... Every single product you just mentioned there people have inserted P-taps in backwards and blown up in quite often fantastic displays of smoke and fire. Even worse its a 3 way compounding danger.. even if you make the best solid metal port on the camera side and put a fuse in and ground the world, just one cheap cable or one cheap accessory in the path down the line throws all that protection out the window.

Which of course is user error. And we all mistakes. But you would be incredibly shocked at the number of people who blow shit up and then proceed to call RED and try and convince us to fix their busted 3rd party stuff like it was our fault. Or when they do it on set and it brings down the entire production they point to our camera and then go hide on the roof.

But lets see how it goes... maybe the world has learned. I know the quality of the P-tap ports on pro devices is alot better now than it was 10 years ago so lets give it a chance.
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Just for clarity's sake... ET isn't considered 3rd party.... right?

EDIT: A 2 1/2 party then?

NEW EDIT: I'm going with 2nd party.
 
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