I honerstly dont think any of us need a battery this big unless we are running a 744T. a 6000 or 6600/6800mah battery is FINE for our 1-2 shjow needs without recharging. these just add more weight and take longer to charge
and not to mention are almsot double the price of a 6000mah one
go the 7.2v NIMH rc battery route and you can get (4) 7.2v NIMH 3300mah(maybe even 3500mah ones by now) for around 60 SHIPPEP from ebay and a 'chun' smart charger for 20 bucks. that will yield around 13,000mah if theyre 3300mah batts. even if theyre 3000mah ones, thats 12,000mah, or 12 amps of power. that will power my 722 Mic-In/Phantom/No Backlight/Headphones CRANKED/writing to JUST the INHDD for prolly around 9-10 hrs
Writing to JUST the cf card instead of the INHDD with those same scenario as above, I bet I could get about 12+hrs Phantom/mic-in/no backlight/JUST to CF Card.
Thats a HELL of alot cheaper than buying (2) 6800+ mah 722 LIONS......and not to mention how much more reliable the NIMH batts are IMO. Just cycle them 5-6 times at once, just once a year, and those NIMH batts will last you a LONG time. i just cycled them each about 5-6 times to prepare for allgood, and my runtimes have been consistent for the last 3 years since I got the batteries from ebay
I know they are heavier than lion's, but i would rather carry SLIGHTLY more weight knowing that I will DEF have power at whatever show I'm going to. AND you can hotswap the batts if needed when you are running LOW on power and cant just swap a 722 battery out(that battery hotswap SAVED MY ASS for Grace Potter at All Good this past weekend. if i had a 722 battery, I would have missed the beginning of her set, but instead I hotswapped my rc batts and didnt miss one note
and because you can hotswap your batts, you can tend to push them a bit futher to get all the power you need from your batts, instead of swapping lion's eariler than you would these NIMH batts, and also pushing lions dead all teh time is not a good thing
I take (2) 722 lions with me to EVERy show(both are 6000mah cheapies) JUST IN CASE I get to the show and one decides not to work ever again
but for a more long-term, worry-free battery solution, 7.2v NIMH batts are DEF the way to go IMO. and whats nice is I used to have (4) Ecocharge 6v/7.2amp batteries, well, the ecocharge padded battery carrying cases fit my 3 x 7.2v 3000mah 'packs' i made PERFECTLY. 7.2v batts fit in the just right
So I have nice padded ecocharge cases to hold all of my 7.2v 'packs'
that way the plastic taimoy(sp?) connectors on the rc batts wont get easily damaged and neitehr will the cables coming out of the batteries. I feel alot safer with the ecocharge cases too
ONLY downside is flying with the RC batts. Im sure as long as you had your gear with you to power it all up in front of the airport security to show them that they arent BOMBS
Ned Struzziero wants to borrow my 7.2v battery setup to run at RAQ's Lew-Au II this coming weekend. but he wanted me to send the batteriesto my buddy that lives close to me so he can FLY the batteries to VT so Ned can use them. only problem is, whoever would have been flying the batteries to VT would NOT have any gear to show airport security that they are IN FACT batteries and not bombs. So i had to nix that idea because I didnt want my batteries confiscated or anyone held up in a holding cell and missing RAQ because of a couple suspicious looking batteries
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