Ray:
NP-1's are, rather, the ubiquitous batteries that many Sony Pro
Camcorders
use (Sony developed this style of battery)... THey're about 2 3/4" wide
x 7"
long by 3/4" deep. A lot of chargers, etc. have been developed for
them,
there are even NiMH and LiIon models, as well as 12 and 13.2v nicad
models...
Julian
From: cinesota@yahoo.com
Reply-To: EclairACL@topica.com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:08:35 +0000
To: EclairACL@topica.com
Subject: RE: Eclair ACL Battery Options
Hi all,
Good thread! I've been trying to devise a way to mount batteries to my
ACL via the pilotone module. Both of my ACL's have one. I keep them on
the cameras because the handgrip rosette is useful, but pilotone in this
day and age is useless.
My plan was to gut the module, replace the pilotone socket with a 4pin
xlr socket, and then wire it out to the camera via a pigtail. The
reason for doing this is I picked up an Aaton handgrip cheap and I want
to wire the start/stop switch through the converted module. All this is
relatively easy. For the batteries, I bought some plastic project boxes
(like you find at Radio Shack)and installed 12 AA nimh cells with a
short 4pin xlr pigtail coming out. Now where I'm running into a problem
is mounting the cells to the pilotone module. Anyone have any
suggestions? I considered cutting keyholes into the boxes and mounting a
couple of button head screws into the back of the pilotone module that
would slip into the keyholes and hold it into place. But the plastic is
pretty soft and I don't think it will hold up very well over time. I
thought about putting velcro onto the sides of my mags but I want to
devise something that is independent and won't get in the way during mag
changes.
Julian mentioned a battery cup for NP-1 batteries. Are NP-1's the
ubiquitous camcorder batteries used with the old Panasonic VHS
camcorders? They would be an ideal battery for the ACL. Do you think
the cup would support the battery while on the camera?
As a side note, Mark at Super16ACL is working on a battery mount that
would allow camcorder batteries to be side mounted on the ACL and
provide a rosette for the handgrip. He has a pic on his website.
Cheers,
Ray
ps. Glad to see Perry on the List. As some of you may know, he had the
first ACL website way back in the day (1998?). Welcome Perry! I look
forward to an updated site.