Battery Question

[Steve Marshall]

Quick question guys,

Does Anton Bauer Dionic 90 batteries fit on the RED Quickplate or do I need some kind of adaptor?

[Hudson Tanimoto]

An Anton Bauer battery being AB mount will not fit on the Quickplate as it is a V-lok. You can find adaptor plates to go from AB to V-lok or use a third party AB plate with a RED-compatible Lemo output. That said a 90Wh battery is not going to power the Red nor the Epic for very long.

[Jeff Garton]

Dionic HCs power the Epic just fine. I'd avoid the Dionic 90s as the amperage draw, particularly from the Red One, is so high you only get about a half hour out of the 90wh battery. HCs are designed for higher loads (100watts they claim) and perform very well with the Epic. As Hudson mentions there are many ways to get a gold mount Red ready. I mostly use the Swap Pack from Action Products or an Element Technica Aluminum speedy clamp plate with an Anton Bauer Gold Mount with RED One lemo cable bolted to it. Epic uses a different lemo. Right now there are adapter cables. Hopefully soon we can get Gold Plates with the Epic lemo.

[Dennis Fegan]

We just got our epic last week and due to red volts and dsmc side handles being on back order we decided to go ahead and buy a red battery plate with the lemo power adapter and went ahead and bought "Batteries4Broadcast" 90wh Lithium-Ion battery, but so far after charging the batteries for over 20 hours they still won't work with the epic. When we plug it into the Epic we get the red light over top of the side record/power button but as soon as we turn it on the light goes away and the fan starts running as if it was turning on but nothing but the fan ever comes on. We thought it might be that the batteries were not fully charged because we have read that once your battery gets to bellow 10wh the epic will automatically shut down.

Any suggestions?

[Hudson Tanimoto]

The only 90Wh battery I could see on batteries4broadcast is rated for a 55 watt draw maximum. I'd imagine on startup the Epic would pull more than it's standard operating current, which is around the 60 watt mark in standby and probably higher when recording. I'd say that the Epic is sensing it can't draw enough power from the battery and is refusing to start up (protecting itself)

(Don't ask me how the teeny tiny Redvolts get around this issue though)

[Matthew J]

We just got our epic last week and due to red volts and dsmc side handles being on back order we decided to go ahead and buy a red battery plate with the lemo power adapter and went ahead and bought "Batteries4Broadcast" 90wh Lithium-Ion battery, but so far after charging the batteries for over 20 hours they still won't work with the epic. When we plug it into the Epic we get the red light over top of the side record/power button but as soon as we turn it on the light goes away and the fan starts running as if it was turning on but nothing but the fan ever comes on. We thought it might be that the batteries were not fully charged because we have read that once your battery gets to bellow 10wh the epic will automatically shut down.

Any suggestions?

Hey Dennis, I just came across the same issue with the B4B 150 watt batteries last weekend with an Epic. The issues is that the B4B's have some of the pin ports powered that shouldn't be powered. While they fixed their batteries to work with RED, evidently the Epic is a little pickier. I ended up opening up my batteries and clipping the center port's wire and the Epic started up just fine. What I suggest is getting a electric meter and metering a RED battery to see what ports should have power and what shouldn't. You can also try putting tape over ports and sticking it on the battery plate. If you have the correct ports covered, the Epic should start up and you'll know which ports to cut the power off.

BTW, the batteries are easy to get into. Undo the four screws in the corner of the battery, then use a flat head screwdriver to press in the top center of the battery (at the seam) to unlock the tab that holds the two halves together.

[Matt Uhry]

We're running 95wh Global Media Pro Lithium batts on our Epic M with no problems. Works great in fact. GMP has a rep in the USA named Jerry Gonzalez now and he is very helpful. PM me for his contact information.



Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com

[Jeff Garton]

I have 6 B4B 150wh batteries and they work fine on the Epic. Mathew J's point above may be valid, but I don't think you will ever get the Epic running on the B4B 90wh batteries. As Hudson points out they are rated for only 55w. You could mount two simultaneously, though that seems a bit silly given how small the Epic is.

[Leif Thomas]

We're running 95wh Global Media Pro Lithium batts on our Epic M with no problems. Works great in fact.

Do the 95 Wh batteries show percentage on the Epic display?

I'm very happy with their Red specific 230Wh batteries for my Red MX. I was hoping for a airport friendly, Red specific battery from them but can only find 160Wh ones.