Most affordable V-mount batteries?

[Andrew Linga]

Wow, that question has been in my head for months. Glad that cleared up. Now to make sure the ones I buy fit correctly =)

 

[Ugo Del]

The maximum width can be 100.6mm as long as the bottom edges have AT LEAST a 9.70mm radius. Any larger width or smaller radius will not engage properly as it will bump against the I/O portion of the module.

Will you sell some kind of simple extension plate for the expander or do you already know if another company will offer that?

 

[Clint Lealos]

Can't believe nobody has mentioned SWIT batteries yet. I've had a couple problems with their smaller Canon C300 type batteries, but I've been using their v-mounts http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1130057-REG/swit_s_8082s_95wh_v_mount_battery.html for many years and never had a problem. They also make the perfect 4 bank simultaneous chargerhttp://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1130071-REG/swit_d_3004s_v_mount_charger_for.html.

 

[AndreeMarkefors]

I was talking to the new RED reseller (yes!) in Switzerland just yesterday: schweizervideo.ch and the owner has just started posting here—his name is Jose Garcia.

As I understand it, he is very familiar with the BeBop products and recommends them. He was also talking about BeBop's V-mount module (not sure if it goes on top of RED's expander or replaces it) that has an integrated battery that gives you about 120 seconds of power reserve for seamless switching of V-mouts. Seems pretty handy.

The V-mounts looked nice and clean. They've got a red series can can sustain high amp draws for older cameras, and a blue series that are a bit cheaper that have lower amp spec but that can be used on the Weapon generation of cameras.

 

[Paul Russell]

Hey Paul,

Are you talking about the ''GlobalMediaPro Li95S-HW-R Lithium Ion Battery 95wh for Red Camera'' batteries?
Or have they actually released slim versions of their batteries?

Cheers!

I think the 95's are about as slim as GMP go

 

[Simeon T Geyer]

Does anyone fancy putting together a list of v-mount batteries that fit / that don't fit? I guess a few more people will encounter this issue as son as their packages arrive.

 

[Gene Sung]

As I understand it, he is very familiar with the BeBop products and recommends them. He was also talking about BeBop's V-mount module (not sure if it goes on top of RED's expander or replaces it) that has an integrated battery that gives you about 120 seconds of power reserve for seamless switching of V-mouts. Seems pretty handy.

The V-mounts looked nice and clean. They've got a red series can can sustain high amp draws for older cameras, and a blue series that are a bit cheaper that have lower amp spec but that can be used on the Weapon generation of cameras.

Yeah, the feedback on Bebob by Reduser (s) has been very positive. The V150 is only 315 Euro which is pretty affordable and I'd definitely pay a bit more for German batteries (made in Germany, cells by Japan) than sketchy Chinese batteries (and I'm Chinese). Their dual, simultaneous charger is on 250 Euros which is quite inexpensive.

Also, at 825 grams, the Bebob is the lightest 150wh battery by a considerable margin. Most of the 97wh batteries (Swit, Pag, GMP) are less than 100 grams lighter so minimal weight savings and way less battery switching.

I think I'm ordering these on Monday.

 

[Mark Pedersen]

The maximum width can be 100.6mm as long as the bottom edges have AT LEAST a 9.70mm radius. Any larger width or smaller radius will not engage properly as it will bump against the I/O portion of the module.

Hi Brent,

Just saw this thread and concern about battery width. We just bought a bunch of IDX DUO 150's which are 3.82 inches wide and 5.75 inches tall. Red bricks are 3.54 inches wide.

These have been working great on our weapons. About 3/4 inch shorter than Red Bricks, and weigh about the same - 2.31lbs. They have two d-taps and a USB on the battery itself and they pass data through to the camera.

They work fine on the ET V-locks on our Weapons with the base expander. I assume they'll work just fine on base I/O module as well, right? Looks like they are 97.02mm wide, so they should.

M

 

[Brent Carter]

Hi Brent,

Just saw this thread and concern about battery width. We just bought a bunch of IDX DUO 150's which are 3.82 inches wide and 5.75 inches tall. Red bricks are 3.54 inches wide.

These have been working great on our weapons. About 3/4 inch shorter than Red Bricks, and weigh about the same - 2.31lbs. They have two d-taps and a USB on the battery itself and they pass data through to the camera.

They work fine on the ET V-locks on our Weapons with the base expander. I assume they'll work just fine on base I/O module as well, right? Looks like they are 97.02mm wide, so they should.

M

Depends on the radius of that edge.

 

[Simeon T Geyer]

Just to let you guys know the Global Media Pro (GMP) v-Locks WILL NOT fit with the Base I/O v-lock expander!!!
They are to wide. Max widths can be 100.6mm as stated by Brent in another thread. The GMP ones are 102mm.
It's a realy bummer since I was thinking about those as well but I'll probably settle with the IDX CUE-D75 or Cue-D95 for now.

As Brent stated in another thread about the same issue:

The maximum width can be 100.6mm as long as the bottom edges have AT LEAST a 9.70mm radius. Any larger width or smaller radius will not engage properly as it will bump against the I/O portion of the module.

here the whole thread:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?141388-Most-affordable-V-mount-batteries/page2

 

[Craig Meadows]

I use 90w slim versions from GlobalMediaPro.
They last about three years.

3 years on one charge, that's fantastic! JK

 

[Brent Carter]

FWIW, here are a few batteries we have confirmed fit with the v-lock expander. Not a comprehensive list, of course, but what we had access to internally. Hope it helps..

1. RED BRICK
2. Blueshape (All BV series)
3. IDX (E-HL10DS and E-HL9)
4. Sony (BP-FL75)
5. Switronix (Hypercore series and XP-L90S)

 

[Michael Hastings]

FWIW, here are a few batteries we have confirmed fit with the v-lock expander. Not a comprehensive list, of course, but what we had access to internally. Hope it helps..

1. RED BRICK
2. Blueshape (All BV series)
3. IDX (E-HL10DS and E-HL9)
4. Sony (BP-FL75)
5. Switronix (Hypercore series and XP-L90S)

Cool that those sony batteries work. I got a couple mainly for the size (longer but very low profile so don't stick up past the height of camera) for my underwater work.

They are a new lithium technology which can be charged much faster (with the sony charger) and are supposed to be much safer as well with less chance of combustion, and also supposedly will last for four to five times as many charge cycles as the regular lithium ion packs.

They are 12.8 volts nominal but tested them on a scarlet with EVF and screen at the RED store in Miami and ran for over an hour.

 

[Jeff Augustin]

Will a gold mount to V mount adapter work?

 

[jordan levy]

Will a gold mount to V mount adapter work?

it will work but ive had some problems with them being a bit janky, not reading the battery correctly and you gain about another inch and half of length.

 

[Max Larsson]

I'll go with the PAG (http://cvp.com/index.php?t=product/pag_9303). You can also charge 16 PAGlink batteries simultaneously, 8 on each channel on this charger: http://cvp.com/index.php?t=product/pag_9707

Great cause you can take them on all your flights (100Wh restriction). You can link them together. From the capacity of 96Wh (one battery) you can get 192Wh with two batteries and so on. Hot swap them for easy battery change.

 

[Morgan Hassel]

Hi guys!

Happy to finally be a part of your forum!

Regarding the battery solution for the much lighter Raven; have anyone tried out the Farseeing V-lock batteries located at Cinegearpro?

There's one bigger with a lot of good powerports that max's out at 190W / 13000mAh for $379.
http://www.cinegearpro.com/farseein...tion-v-lock-li-ion-battery-w-lcd-display.html

But there's also a much smaller alternative that seams to fit the more portable formfactor of the Raven that seams to fit even better, that one max's out at 130W / 8800mAh for $316.
http://www.cinegearpro.com/professional-v-lock-li-ion-battery-small-size-with-lcd-display.html

Regarding the price point, the capacity, the ports and the % display they seams like quite the bargain, am I wrong?

 

[Zachary Belcher]

Hey everyone! This is my first post on the forum. Pre-ordered the Raven Base I/O pkg. Been trying to wrap my head around which v-mount battery solution to go with!

Stumbled upon this post from Switronix today... Is it just me or does the only way it looks like the Hypercore Slim fits is with an expander to push it out from the I/O? In this pic they're using the wooden camera wireless v-lock. I'm sure i'm wrong, just appears that way...

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[Oron Cohen]

The maximum width can be 100.6mm as long as the bottom edges have AT LEAST a 9.70mm radius. Any larger width or smaller radius will not engage properly as it will bump against the I/O portion of the module.

I wanted to check if the Swit batteries would fit? their RED version is 168×98×52mm (http://www.swit.cc/productshow.aspx?id=21) , and the non RED version is 134×88×52mm ( http://www.swit.cc/productshow.aspx?id=25 ), still not sure how do you calculate the radius? How do you know it's at least 9.70mm in radius?

If anyone either from RED or members knows that would be great.

Thanks.

 

[Mendel Katz]

Hey guys, getting some v-mount batteries & looking at some dual charger options. I much prefer those compact travel ones, Does anyone use of of those? If so which brand and are you happy with it?