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EOS R5: External Battery USB-C Power

Started Aug 28, 2020 | Polls
TimP111 Regular Member • Posts: 168
Re: EOS R5: External Battery USB-C Power

Rons DP Account wrote:

Hi

The charging capabilities of Canon batteries are years out of date. A fact made worse by Canon mirrorless cameras being particularly heavy users of power.

Phones with large batteries charge in about an hour with USB C high speed charging. Not available for charging Canon batteries. Why not? Canon chargers are still very old micro USB.

You can plug in a USB C power pack to your Canon camera and as long as it is switched off (i.e. not being a camera) it will charge! Who at Canon thought that was a good plan? Surely a power pack should allow us to use the camera for hours? The fastest I have charged a battery is still over 5 hours; unacceptable. It's particularly unacceptable as on a cool UK day with settings set to low power (except I do always use the viewfinder) I get as few as 170 shots from a genuine Canon R5 battery.

Thanks for reading.

Ron

Yes you can run the camera from powerbank as long as its a PD powerbank and enough watts.. Dont remember offhand what you need but watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8BJeFKtkSc

koenkooi Contributing Member • Posts: 919
Re: EOS R5: External Battery USB-C Power

Rons DP Account wrote:

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Phones with large batteries charge in about an hour with USB C high speed charging. Not available for charging Canon batteries. Why not? [...]

Mostly due to the lack of heat management in the current bodies with USB-C sockets. You should only charge as fast as the device can displace heat away from the battery, which the current design can't do with the amount of air and plastic between the battery and the outside world.

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elliotwoods New Member • Posts: 1
Re: EOS R5: External Battery USB-C Power

Is there any way to prove whether the camera is using the external power supply to power itself whilst it is on? Are there any indicators or menu systems that display that the power is being delivered from the power supply?

Has anybody had any luck using MacBook power adapters for this?

My small MacBook power adapter does seem to charge the device whilst off so long as it has the LP-E6N battery installed (not with LP-E6). If it's not charging the battery, but is powering the device whilst it's on, that would be fine for me. Not sure if this is possible with the LP-E6 installed.

ntsan Senior Member • Posts: 1,029
Re: EOS R5: External Battery USB-C Power

elliotwoods wrote:

Is there any way to prove whether the camera is using the external power supply to power itself whilst it is on? Are there any indicators or menu systems that display that the power is being delivered from the power supply?

Has anybody had any luck using MacBook power adapters for this?

My small MacBook power adapter does seem to charge the device whilst off so long as it has the LP-E6N battery installed (not with LP-E6). If it's not charging the battery, but is powering the device whilst it's on, that would be fine for me. Not sure if this is possible with the LP-E6 installed.

The battery indicator becomes grey out when using external power to operate camera.

I recently bought a xiaomi 33w 10000mah powerbank and it can power the battery which us cool (got 5v3a and 9v3a, though 12v is only 2.25a)

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crisdesign Junior Member • Posts: 32
Re: EOS R5: External Battery USB-C Power

You need a 30w powerbank with PD cable to operate the camera while charging.

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Bionic963 Contributing Member • Posts: 743
Re: EOS R5: External Battery USB-C Power

I am currently at a corporate head shot shoot for the next couple of days. A few days ago I purchased a LP-E6 USB-C dummy battery. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09MTFKL6Y

Today I have been using it for 7 hours straight thus far. It is installed in an R7,. I have the Dummy Battery connected to a 10000mAh 20W Power Bank USB C Mini Portable Portable Battery. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XW7ZVKD  The battery still shows to have 20% left.

BTW, I am shooting tethered so I also have the R7's USB-C port connected to a USB-C PD Port on a laptop.   So that is also providing some power to the R7 as well, which results in longer battery life.

So far so good

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