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First draft of external ML battery power -

Started Oct 7, 2019 | Discussions thread
Max Iso
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Re: First draft of external ML battery power -

Donald B wrote:

Thanks, you just saved me $100. I have a big shoot coming up and was going to buy a3rd battery for my em12 or make a power supply up. The problem is finding 9v 5 amp supply.

so after reading your post I will use 1 of my 6000 mah rc race car batteries only cost me $3 for the plug as I have the oly battery grip with a standard female fitting. It’s only a back up as the oly battery lasts for 2.5 hours and a battery charges in 1.5 hours so my 2 batteries should do. But it’s better to have a backup.

Don

Good deal don. Funny yesterday i was just looking at those RC batteries, i found some as high as 6500mAh. There was 3 or more different connectors but it seems there are DC adapter plugs for anything out there so that's no issue. And i don't think you will have to worry about it not supplying enough amps as those RC toys are high draw so the batteries are made to supply that peak power, more than enough for a camera.

Also if you have a battery grip you could leave the one battery in the camera, and use the RC battery on top of that so you won't have to swap anything till they are both dead, and if you have another RC and camera battery charged, you have two sets total.

Hope it all works out well!

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