Remote control car battery packs to power cameras

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Remote control car battery packs to power cameras

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Saw this in the catalogue for a local electronics store and thought it could be good for powering Beaulieu cameras which are 7.2 V (from memory!) -- there are also 6V ones available too

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.as ... BCATID=583

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You'd just have to change the plug of course

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Can work, but on a 6/7/9008 you are better off using a 8.4 volt pack to connect to the power-in. Makes the camera much more dynamic :)
Unfortunately the 9 volt connector has no securing. Also it could short the pack causing some serious fireworks and burning down your home or car. So you need a switch on the pack to switch it on only when the plug is in the camera fully. There are 3.5 jack plugs with a midsection non-conductive part. These should be fine here.

On 4008 you would need 0-3.6-7.2 volt. So you must modifiy the wiring of the pack and find a method to connect the pack to the metal clips in the batteryholder of the camera. Check the site of super8man :)
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Re: Remote control car battery packs to power cameras

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I've been using this one for a while-
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1 ... t_LCE.html
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