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What is good V-mount plate and battery for Epic? Battery belt? Quickplate?

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Redvolt is only about 30 minutes. The batteries I think Globalmediapro is good for the price 160W for 300$.
Advice please what V-mount and battery is good for Epic? I see when we are talking about V mount plate it is additionally needs to buy something else, quick plate, cable, or something else.

For example from x QB Switronix V-Mount is 320 but needs additionally QB Battery Back (SWIT/IDX) for 79 and Quick Back for 199 so 600 in sum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k1yQeg6swc&feature=player_embedded

So in this case may be good to buy Viewfactor V-mount plate for 699
http://www.viewfactor.net/products/epic-scarlet-acc/idx-apu.html
Is it connect directly to EPIC or need some additional quick plate?

or RED V-mount BACKPACK QUICKPLATE for 650
http://www.red.com/store/products/backpack-quickplate-m
Is it connect directly to EPIC or need some additional quick plate? Or is it really need RED Quick plate for 1200?

or RED BATTERY BELT CLIP (DSMC) for 320
http://www.red.com/store/products/battery-belt-clip-dsmc
Is it connect directly to EPIC or need some additional quick plate?

Is any from above well work with any V-mount battery or maybe some well work with GMP some with RED BRICK?


Thank you
 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/150wh-V-loc...s_Chargers&hash=item27c0046938#ht_2342wt_1352

-SAME battery as Global Media (I mean, literally, identical)
-FREE charger
-FREE shipping
-NO payment/shipping issues - PayPal / Ebay covers loss, makes it easy
-cheaper $$
-great customer support

Have not seen a better valued V-brick for sale.
Will only read Voltage in viewfinder (as with many) - this may be a PLATE issue as well?

Stu Aull
SX 199
Alaska
 
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Nice find Adam! Yeah, Alexey, now how to CHARGE those. $50 saved per battery gets eaten up pretty quickly if you to source a charger...

Stu Aull
SX 199
Alaska
 
best experiences we made with BEBOB batteries - http://www.bebob.de/Batteries-and-chargers/A140RM.html
you can use the ML120 from BEBOB as well. We have around 200 of these batteries in rental and never got a problem yet. most important they do not loose much capacity over the years. the first we bought 3 years ago - and they still keep on rocking.
 
We have the AB version, same price. Mounts directly into the back of the epic, no additional plates needed.

If you have any questions for Viewfactor Curt will answer all your questions and quickly. It's why I chooser VF this time instead of Wooden.

Curt von Badinski curt [@] viewfactor dot net

Alexey Datsenko said:
So in this case may be good to buy Viewfactor V-mount plate for 699
http://www.viewfactor.net/products/epic-scarlet-acc/idx-apu.html
Is it connect directly to EPIC or need some additional quick plate?
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I had the viewfactor but it didn't transmit battery %. Thankfully a rental client has a TSA agent smash it and I 'upgraded' to wooden's. As to wooden's customer service... I've emailed VF and they usually get back to me pretty quickly, but I get responses from Ryan at Wooden in less than 10 minutes most of the time. So I wouldn't pick one over another based on response time both are great to work with.

As to batteries, I also recommend picking up a gaggle of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AXRTEC-Thre...342?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19cc090806
Offer them $100 each. The reason I like these is because they don't count towards your airline limit and they can be shipped via Air with FEDEX without much hassle. I still have two 190wh batteries for studio shooting etc but for travel the little 90wh ones are a great balance between run-time and regulations.
 
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