Anyone know if you run this battery completely down if it will kill the battery?
edtyre ran one into the ground at a festival once, I don't remember him having a problem getting it resuscitated.
My 3450
i-R2 arrived last night. Paired with my 722, and set to 11v, it used about half of the capacity (3 lights gone) in 6 hrs with P48 (mics rated to draw 4.6ma), backlight on, both CF/HDD recording at 24/44.1, but no internal battery trying to draw a charge. So I reckon it might realistically get about 10hrs before I hit the last 10% of the battery. If I was desperate, I could run it at 10v for the extra time bonus (an hr maybe?), but the low battery light flashes all the time since you don't truely get 10v (the box reports 9.8 or something).
If you use the standard 3450 (which does 12v and is only 50Wh), I'd bank about 7-8hrs in the same scenario; higher voltage and less watt-hour capacity. The upside is the battery can be found for just over half the price of the i-R2. So if space isn't an issue but running time is, it's a better Wh/$ deal.
Anyone notice that the literature online for capacity lights doesn't match what is printed in the manual? I based the above on the more conservative of the two (and shaved about 10% off).