Is AC power adapter really mandatory for upgrading to v3.0.0?

[ericyoung]

Yes. Just make sure battery is fully charged and you won't accidentally bump the battery off the battery plate (some Red battery plates aren't as secure as they should be).

 

[Russ Fill]

Will, Check with your bomb squad but I would not use the old R1 Brick battery charger with power supply to upgrade or plug in to your Epic. I had a little power problem when I did that and now I own a epic power supply because of that little problem.

 

[Will Keir]

what problems specifically?

 

[George Butterfield]

I got my SSDs today and being a firmware whore, I wanted to upgrade my Epic's firmware to 3.0.0.

So Petri, what's the verdict? Did you upgrade yet?

 

[Petri Teittinen]

So Petri, what's the verdict? Did you upgrade yet?

Yeah, (what feels like) ages ago. I already posted about it earlier on this thread. See post #11.

 

[Rob Ruffo]

NOT mandatory. You can upgrade using a battery, they just recommend you to use A/C power. If your battery fails then you could have a bricked camera. Use a known good fully charged battery and you should be fine. To me, the odds are greater that the power company will have a transformer blow or somebody kicks the cord out of the wall than a fully charged battery suddenly failing.

Fully agree.

 

[Will Keir]

Tried and tested. DC power works fine as does the old R1 power cords. You just need a 2b to 1b power adapter for the smaller power outlet in the epic brain.

Will, Check with your bomb squad but I would not use the old R1 Brick battery charger with power supply to upgrade or plug in to your Epic. I had a little power problem when I did that and now I own a epic power supply because of that little problem.

 

[ericyoung]

Note that the old Red One AC-DC mains power supply was only rated at 100W. The new Epic/Scarlet ones are rated at 150W.

The old ones will work with a minimal camera setup, but may be underpowered if you run multiple accessories/modules.