Just used Epic with REDMOTE for half an hour straight, going through the menus, mapping functions to REDMOTE slots etc. while sitting on a sofa approx. 5 feet away from the camera. REDMOTE connection did not drop out once.
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04-06-2012, 03:14 PM
Just used Epic with REDMOTE for half an hour straight, going through the menus, mapping functions to REDMOTE slots etc. while sitting on a sofa approx. 5 feet away from the camera. REDMOTE connection did not drop out once.
04-06-2012, 03:21 PM
What changed?Originally Posted by Petri Teittinen
04-07-2012, 02:08 AM
Two things: location and REDMOTE's relative position to Epic. The location change was only 10 feet within the same room, however. Earlier I used the remote while standing up next to the camera, on the SSD side, with the remote approx. 10 inches above the camera (which was on a tripod). That's when I experienced a few disconnects. After moving the camera so I could sit on a sofa while looking at the LCD, the remote was again on the SSD side of the camera, but approx. 20 inches below the camera, 4 feet away. That got me 30 minutes of constant use without disconnects.
04-07-2012, 02:22 AM
After my half an hour of going through the menus with REDMOTE, I shut both the remote and the camera down in the usual way. Perhaps an hour later I decided to go through the menus a bit more, powered the Epic up... and got the living poop scared out of me.
Epic would not boot up. The led above the power button went out and I could hear the fan start up -- but there was something markedly different about the fan sound. It went "whoomp, whoomp, whoomp", i.e. it picked up rpms for half a second, then dropped down to its starting rpms, picked up rpms, dropped down etc. ad infinitum. No image appeared on the LCD.
I recycled the power a few times by keeping the power button pressed down a few seconds until the camera shut down, then pressing the power button again. No change, just the fan going through a cycle. I then removed battery cable, waited for 15 seconds, re-connected power cable and pressed the power button. No change.
I don't mind saying that at this point I had a lump in my throat. As a last resort, I tried one more thing: I shut the camera down by keeping the power button pressed, and once the fan died, I immediately pressed the power button again. Earlier I had always waited for a few seconds before pressing the button again.
It worked: Epic booted up normally.
But... am I right to be worried about this?
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