Power Supply

[Ken Willinger]

Just wanted to let those who plan to use an Anton Bauer Titan 70 power supply with your Red Camera...it won't work. I was hoping that I'd be able to use it as it mounts directly to the camera. No such luck. BTW, J-Lab had a camera mounted power supply available at their booth that looked very nice though a bit pricey at $700, but it had two 4 pin power outs as well as powering the camera while mounted. Don't know if it will work with Red. Anyone else have any camera mounted power supply info?

 

[Mike Prevette]

Ya it only puts out like 60w or 70w, and the Red needs at least 90 I think. Don't quote me on those numbers but my feeble memory recalls something like that.

 

[paul engstrom]

When I looked into this I learned a few things:

1. basically only RED chargers with built in mains power have sufficient amps/watts to run the camera.

2. the RED charger has a fan and that's noise...so not a good option if you're recording sound

3. so buy a RED wall power source from red.com

4. AB dionic 90's are insufficiently strong for RED cameras. They will not last long. The AB people I talked to strongly recommended against using them with RED because it pulls high amps. They will work out for you in a pinch, but are not recommended as your usual, everyday batteries.

5. Further to point 4, on a recent shoot we had not option but to use dionic 90s...due to resulting power problems I am placing an order for RED batteries today and will simply have to deal with the airline problems I was trying to avoid.

6. I've heard the hytron 140's are doing much better.

good shooting!

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