weapon power issue?

[Jake Wilganowski]

I can ac power it fine via the base expander. I've tried 2 anton battery plates and 2 different cables and i can't get it powered on via battery. Any ideas? One cable was a dtap to epic power cable. The other was the action products battery plate with the epic connector.

 

[PatrickFaith]

What I always do is connect the Anton Bauer epic power cable into the xl module, this also isolated the camera from power issues.

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

Ok so I attached the revolt XL module to the base expander and used the dc in port on the XL module and it works. So thats really weird and confirms its not the battery.

My base expander will ONLY take ac power, no battery power. How is this possible?

 

[PatrickFaith]

i dont think that confirms its not the battery, i noticed that the xl module is doing some type of power conditioning which can "fix" power issues. the xl module i found has some tricks it is doing, also i think the weapon power tolerences are a bit narrower then my scarlet, which i dont feel is a bad thing. the problem is testing if the battery has issues or if its a connector problem. ( the new anton baur charger i think has good diagnostics & charging algorithms). power issues can drive one crazy though.

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

I tried 2 connectors and two batteries of 2 different sizes on 2 battery plates

 

[PatrickFaith]

I tried 2 connectors and two batteries of 2 different sizes on 2 battery plates

Understandable, power issues drive me crazy, which is so why i'm so fanatical on following the power operations guide. http://s3.amazonaws.com/red_3/downloads/manuals/dsmc_ops/power/dsmc-power-guide_rev-T.pdf

I heard the recent firmware patch had some power stuff, I'll be testing that later today with the magnum-W just in case I run into the same problems your having.

 

[Tom Greenberg]

Sounds to me like there may be an issue with your Base Expander module. I am using the wired Wooden Camera Anton Bauer plate with the Base Expander on my MG and it's working fine.

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

I have a friend with the wooden plate I can test out

 

[PatrickFaith]

Has this been resolved, I still need to connect my anton baur batteries through the XL module. If I connect the batteries through directly to the base module power I get intermittent errors and shutdowns. My current firmware on my carbon fiber weapon is 6.3.37.

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

I had a bad base expander, red swapped it out

 

[PatrickFaith]

I had a bad base expander, red swapped it out

Thanks I'll contact my bomb squad guy

[edit ... I btw have two base expanders, both have the same issue where I need to run through the XL module or the battery will cut out. This to means it's not a bad base expander per se, but that the initial run had a problem]