When your scarlet is off, how long does your redvolt lasts?

[greg filipkowski]

When your scarlet is off, how long does your redvolt lasts?
Today I had 4 redvolts, I shot throught day maybe 15 minutes of footage, they were all gone.
I dont know because it was a first charge or what.

 

[Terry VerHaar]

It has been said that there is no power management in the firmware yet. So, I would expect the REDvolts to last the same whether the camera is shooting or whether it is just sitting there - assuming it is ON. Up to now, most people say that is about 30-35 minutes. Are you saying you had the Scarlet powered down off much of the time and it still seemed like the batteries were draining?I ask specifically because it SEEMED (!) that my REDvolts drained while they were sitting in the quad power module even though it wasn't connected to the camera. It got me to wondering if the batteries will drain simply because the battery contacts are touching a metal surface. Is that a crazy idea?

 

[greg filipkowski]

Yes, last night I placed a fully charged volt and shut down the cam, in the am the batt was dead. So I was left with 3,shot 5 minutes the batt died total running time 10 minutes. Then I started taking the batt out everytime, i went to shut down. Is the cam draing the batt or am MY redvolts are dead

 

[Paramon Ivanovich]

Is the cam draing the batt or am MY redvolts are dead

your redvolts are fine, it's the firmware, same bug was on early release of EX1, they fixed it within half a year i believe, RED will do too;

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Scarlet is a vampire... a battery vampire. I was really disappointed to discover in current firmware builds I couldn't just leave a battery in the cam ready to pop it on and shoot at a moment's notice. I can't tell you exatly how long a RV lasts though just sitting in the cam as I haven't measured it. But it's less than a day in my experience.

 

[William Albertini]

Yes the batteries do drain if left attached to the camera, this is not unique to the Scarlet/Epic, I had a Sony PMW-EX1 for several years that would drain attached batteries within 24 hours when switched off. What I would be interested in knowing is what kind of internal clock/setting battery or capacitor the Scarlet has and how long it retains its charge...

 

[Sergio Perez]

This is also true for the Epic. Simple solution is to remove the battery in long down time. It consumes a lot less battery than when in operation, though.

 

[greg filipkowski]

Yes, but I only did 10 min of footage with 3 red volts.

 

[Eric_G]

I tested this exact situation recently on my Scarlet and the Redvolts lost an average of 1% of their charge per hour the battery was sitting in the camera, with the camera turned off.

 

[Manu BERNARD]

Yes, but I only did 10 min of footage with 3 red volts.

repport this to red maybe they will tell you if your scarlet has a problem, if not, they will have another conplaint about her battery lifetime.

 

[Wendell Adkins]

Did this ever get a firmware fix?

 

[paul schefz]

i would like to know as well.....

 

[Louis Maddalena]

with every firmware update it gets a little better.