>Has anybody looked at the batteries used for profesional video >equipment? i used to use video equipment batteries for wearcomps, and they were good for my older high current systems, as they tend to be optimized for high current (they're often used for running high current devices like large video lights). some of my old 1970s wearable rigs (based on porta-pak technology) have batteries that still work to this day, e.g. many of them were quite good quality, although the capacity of the batteries has fallen over the past more than 20 years of deterioration. recently (e.g. through the 1990s) i've explored other options, such as standard camcorder batteries. sony donated to me some of their first li-ion camcorder batteries, before these batteries were put on the market, so i had a good chance to test and develop systems using this new technology. now that the sony li-ion camcorder batteries are so readily available in the marketplace, it seems that these are the best option. the big battery packs, battery belts, etc. are so reminiscent of 1970s --- great for a first generation wearcomp of the '70s, but probably overkill for seventh generation computing in the '00s. steve http://wearcomp.org http://wearcam.org http://eyetap.org -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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