Atli EON Camera and a Battery Bank | Random Video Thursday's
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2022
- This video shows why it may be a good or poor idea (depending on your expectations) to use a lithium battery bank to power something long term. Specifically with dedicated time-lapse camera's. There will be a follow up video to this one as discussed in the video. And it will be much shorter, lol.
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For those who are time-limited, don't care for experimenting with lecture and/or have short attention spans...This is where you can start - 26:55
Another note about those battery banks: they’ve VERY often marketed with ridiculous unachievable capacities.
100% true. Some brands do not have near the capacity that they state. And some brands do have nearly exactly what they state. The most misleading thing about capacity though is that a lithium cell is usually 3.6v and averaging 2800mAh which is 10.36 watt-hours (The actual capacity). A 12v cell at the same 2800mAh is 33 watt-hours. Same mAh, but triple the power. One will power a 10 watt light for 1 hour and the other will power a 10 watt light for 3 hours.
In any case, I have used my meter to take data on the power draw of devices while using my battery banks. I had to figure out how much time I had with them while using them on my astrophotography rig. It would sit outside over night powering the mount, the mini PC, lens warmers, filter wheel, cooled camera, EAF and guide camera. I calculated the time I would be in the safe zone before losing power based on the watt hours that the battery banks stated they had. Never had a problem. I would run both my lens warmers on low using one bank and still have about 2/3rds power left by morning (about 8 hours). Of course these sessions were only 1/3 of a day and not like the tests in this video that lasted days on end where the banks were draining themselves.The vast majority of the power in the banks was lost to their own internal heat production and not ever seen (used) by the camera.
Good info 👍
What if you were to put the camera in power save mode and hook it up to the battery bank, then every 2-3 days just click the button on the battery bank, let it charge and turn off again? This way you don't get the vampiric drain from heat and it just requies minimal attention every couple of days.
I think I covered that in the other video
Sorry, didn’t see the other video.
Hey there, thanks for the coverage! We have ordered the camera for testing of the exact same usecase. I'll be happy to understand what the status of the test with the regular battery. We had played and tested a similar use case (with dashboard camera) where we implemented the power drawing mechanism using arduino nano. Drop a message if you'd like to to discuss some possible solutions as we are in the same boat here :)
Next video out this Thursday
@@GrowingAnswers great, looking forward!