What's the ideal length for the Epic/Scarlet battery plate cable?

[Scott Brown]

Hi folks

We have a Anton Bauer QR-RED battery plate which we originally used on our RED One camera and we now need to get this adapted to fit Epic.

At the moment, we use a 2B to 1B cable from RED to make this work BUT it's rather long and not very elegant to use. Therefore, we've arranged for someone to remove the existing Lemo connector (2B) and replace this with correct one for the Epic (1B).

What I'm trying to work out is the ideal length to make the power cable - anyone care to chime in with some thoughts on this? Are we better to have this cut short to keep the rear of the camera tidy or should we add some flexibility and go for say 10" or perhaps more?

Any user experiences would be much appreciated :smile5:

Many thanks,

Best wishes

Scott

 

[Bob Gundu]

That depends. If you want the flexibility to have it clipped to the belt or in a back pack, longer is better. Otherwise a 6-8" cable is fine.

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

I would say about 8-12". More 12 though than 8.

 

[Roy Rossovich]

I keep mine super short, 3" to keep the camera neat. But I use no modules either so..

 

[Scott Brown]

Thanks guys, I appreciate your input here.

I'm thinking go aiming for about 10" as this should afford me some flexibility without being too untidy.

Best wishes

Scott

 

[Michael Lindsay]

Will they also conect the 2 tiny coms pins? I would recommend they do...

 

[Scott Brown]

Hi Michael

Which pins are these? I'm using a pro video engineer to do this job so I'm assuming he knows what to connect?

Should I be worried!

Best wishes

Scott