Battery advice?

[Cinesin]

I was looking at using the 96w batteries that are popping up on ebay and listed on B&H. It looks ideal to power the cam plus a KiPro considering they have a powertap. Maybe not ideal for handheld but otherwise it seems ok. It says they will charge with the stock charger too.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...thium_Ion.html

On ebay they are popping up for around $190 but are a different brand, although feedback ratings look good.

Any opinions?

[Jason Davenport]

Those are great for the EX-3, but the F-3 is a 4 pin. That has the small EX-3 power pin. I'd call them and see if they are working towards a 4 pin for the F-3 or an adapter to go to 4 pin.
On a EX, one of those suckers will last half the day.

[Andrew Stone]

All those Swit batteries have a D-Tap (Anton Bauer Power Tap connector) on them as well. If you have one of these cables...

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...XLR_Power.html

... you can get this to work. You will have that EX3 cable dangling but otherwise the battery will work.

[Cinesin]

I've made some pro cables in the past and it doesn't seem like too big a deal to put a 4pin on there in place of that little plug. (Why does it need more than 2 pins for power anyway?)

[Duke M.]

I've been told it doesn't need 4 pins but it keeps you from confusing power XLR cables from 3 pin mic XLR cables.

That Marshall cable is way over priced. There's nothing special about those power cables. I've seen them as low as $18. Here its $22 including shipping.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Male-D-Tap-Femal...item2a0e46120a

[adolgin]

Those are great for the EX-3, but the F-3 is a 4 pin. That has the small EX-3 power pin. I'd call them and see if they are working towards a 4 pin for the F-3 or an adapter to go to 4 pin.
On a EX, one of those suckers will last half the day.

Here is the cable to adapt the battery to XLR4

[Jason Davenport]

And here the actual cable from Switronix for that battery as well.
http://www.switronix.com/products/ba...category_id=45