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Komodo Batteries

Jay Hall said:
Anyone used the Dolgin Engineering TC40 charger? Curious as to how fast it charges compared to the other dual chargers for the BP900 batteries.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/513685-REG/Dolgin_Engineering_TC40_CAN_TC_40_CAN_Battery_Charger.html
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Love this charger...its a simultaneous quad charger, so it charges all 4 at once. Ive never timed it, but its fast enough.
The only negative is they use cheap battery plates, and its awkward to align and slide the battery on...other than this, best charger ive used for Canon batts.
 
Christopher A. Bell said:
I have the TC400 for my Canon batts and it’s been plugged-up and powered every single day for seven years straight. I also have two TC200’s plated for Sony BPU’s that have been going for two years, now. Dolgin makes solid stuff.
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Thanks fam good to know have just placed my order :thumbsup:
 
Does anyone have a link to Approved batteries?

Being the cheap bastard I am, I got what I thought were the best of the cheap kastars and they are “not approved” - any suggestions outside of used genuine canon batts ?
 
Dan Kanes said:
Does anyone have a link to Approved batteries?

Being the cheap bastard I am, I got what I thought were the best of the cheap kastars and they are “not approved” - any suggestions outside of used genuine canon batts ?
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We ordered some of those as well. Do they work with your camera? We still haven't got the batteries yet. I believe right now, the only approved batteries are Canon's.
 
They work, but I get an annoying message saying "not supported" and they don't have a battery level indicator.

Seeing as how there are so many batteries in the BP-9XX range for so many years, I'm curious to see what Genuine canon batteries are NOT supported. I'll keep you posted.

I haven't ordered any "chipped" aka "decoded" non-canon batteries yet.
 
Dan Kanes said:
They work, but I get an annoying message saying "not supported" and they don't have a battery level indicator.

Seeing as how there are so many batteries in the BP-9XX range for so many years, I'm curious to see what Genuine canon batteries are NOT supported. I'll keep you posted.

I haven't ordered any "chipped" aka "decoded" non-canon batteries yet.
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Ha we just got ours in today. I see what you're talking about. If anything they will make for a decent plan b. We ordered 4 with 2 "quick chargers" off ebay and it was less then one bp 955 so worst case we have extras and can use them on something else.
 
I played with the Kastar Batts today (big ones similar in size to the 975) they worked ok till they were 1/2 drained (which seemed to happen pretty fast) then the camera failed to boot up after that. This was just in isolated experience and more testing needs to happen but on the outset its not looking promising for the non-Canon batts.
 
Dan Kanes said:
The Kastar chargers (at least the ones I got) appear to be absolute literal landfill garbage.

As opposed to Watson, which seem to be better generics.
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I have both a Kastar charger and the Watson. the Watson seems to charge much faster and seems better built.
 
Mark Andersen said:
I have both a Kastar charger and the Watson. the Watson seems to charge much faster and seems better built.
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Yeah the charger is "okay" but the batteries won't even fully charge right now. I think we are going to return ours and try to get some canons or something else. I'll take a look at the watson charger again.
 
My Canon BP-975 batteries shipped from BH now. BP-955 is still a little ways out it looks like but might be worth putting in an order for some 975s if you are trying to get your hands on some batteries.
 
Does someone have a comprehensive list of batteries that the camera detects? I have several legit BP-970G and BP-955 / BP-950G that are not recognized. I want something that is guaranteed to work , and preferably reasonably priced. I thought buying genuine used canon batts would be the move, but apparently it was not the move.
 
Dan Kanes said:
Does someone have a comprehensive list of batteries that the camera detects? I have several legit BP-970G and BP-955 / BP-950G that are not recognized. I want something that is guaranteed to work , and preferably reasonably priced. I thought buying genuine used canon batts would be the move, but apparently it was not the move.
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Several years ago I remember hearing stories about some of the really good(looking) counterfeits actually slipping into the authorized sales channels. Pretty sure they got them cleared out, but there could still be a lot of them in circulation being passed off as genuine still, on the used market. Just a thought...

Personally, I would just go through an authorized dealer(B&H, Abel, Adorama, etc.) and buy new, genuine Canon batts from them.
 
Dan Kanes said:
Does someone have a comprehensive list of batteries that the camera detects? I have several legit BP-970G and BP-955 / BP-950G that are not recognized. I want something that is guaranteed to work , and preferably reasonably priced. I thought buying genuine used canon batts would be the move, but apparently it was not the move.
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I would imagine the BP-955s that aren't working aren't holding enough of a charge? Haven't heard of anyone having issues with the two main batteries mentioned by Jarred the BP-955 and BP-975 atleast when they are fresh..
 
The 975’s are quite impressive on Komodo. We had the camera on and shot for close to 5 hours and only depleted one. I’ve never had such battery love. I ran a Small HD with a BP-6 on the back and the shoot was all good...except for my Osee 7 not taking the input signal so I had to swap out.
 
Got my BP-975s in. It looks like each one is easily good for 3hrs if not more. Would likely handle a whole day of studio shooting unless you are recording non-stop. Haven't tried running them down completely but the onboard estimate shows 3hrs or so for each battery. Pretty amazing to be able to do 6hrs+ with such a compact package. Sounds like from the post above that it could be possible to get even more. Mine BP-975s are brand new from B&H.
 
I actually run two Canon BP-955. I plan to move to v-mount when the tilta plate is available with some GDU 98 on the back.

Does one of you can give me the comparaison duration between two BP-955 and one GDU 98.
 
BP-955s that I ordered from B&H in July have already shipped. They were listed as backordered until late September so good to see them shipping much sooner than that. Probably going to be a very big demand for these if Komodo is officially released this year.

I love that you can trickle charge batteries on Komodo while connected to DC power. It takes awhile but great that it is possible while the camera is off and just sitting idle.
 
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FYI - the Swit Batteries on B&H (BP-975 size) give the unsupported warning on the camera as well. Same with the Kastars on Amazon.
 
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