Dragon Power Consumption?

[Eric Branco]

Hey guys. Apologies if this information is somewhere else, but I did some digging and couldn't find it.

Anyone know what the power consumption is shooting 6k 24fps on the Dragon? Still in the ballpark of 60w? I'm shooting a doc where I may not have power for a day or two at a time and need to know how many batteries I should put on my camera order.

Thanks much!

 

[Mark Kern]

I too am very interested in this. How is power compared to an Epic?

 

[Bob Gundu]

In the early days it was stated by red that it actually consumed slightly less power than MX. Not sure if things have changed since then.

 

[Alex Pavloff]

I've measured it, it's about 60W.

 

[David Battistella]

In terms of battery swapping, it does not seem like they are more frequent than previously. It's seems that actually I get a bit more out of them. It's not just the camera but the lcd touchscreen is a pretty good power draw just on its own. Have not tested redvolts, just vmount batteries.

Battistella

 

[George Tsai]

made some quick measurments a while back.

Current draw
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[TD]Min[/TD]
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[TD]Standby Running[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.684[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.717[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.756[/TD]
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[TD="align: right"]4.094[/TD]
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[TD]record[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.83[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.961[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.899[/TD]
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[TD]82fps 6k[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.179[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.257[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.276[/TD]
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[TD]23.9 6k[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.705[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.342[/TD]
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Voltage source: 16.51V Red Brick

Brain with side SSD and 5in touch screen. Nothing else attached.

 

[Eric Branco]

Beautiful. Thanks!

 

[Alex Kiritz]

made some quick measurments a while back.

I find it hard to believe that battery voltage was at exactly 16.51 volts for all of these tests. Would be much more helpful to see a real-time power readout while a camera is being used.

 

[George Tsai]

I find it hard to believe that battery voltage was at exactly 16.51 volts for all of these tests. Would be much more helpful to see a real-time power readout while a camera is being used.

Average test only took maybe 5 minutes, no real significant drop in voltage. It was a very quick and short test, basically pressed record and waited for couple seconds for the readings to settle and then wait couple more seconds for min and max.