keylight
Veteran
Thanks to Tyampel for the great idea (see here). I basically did what he did and made my own DC adapter out of wood, although I made a couple of tweaks.
Easy to do and didn't take much time.....
After cutting a piece of scrap wood to size, minus "a bit" on the thickness (more later why), I made 2 channels in the wood and small holes at the end. Did this with a Dremmel and some small bits. I used 2 brass picture hooks that had smooth bottoms - many have dimpled bottoms (I found them at Lowes. Home Depot's had dimples.)
After soldering multi-stranded 24 AWG wire (taken from an old cell phone charger) to the modified hooks, I worked the ends into place. I then tested the block in the camera to make sure the contacts were out far enough. The camera turned on. Excellent. I used a hot glue gun to fill the channels with glue.
I then glued a strip of wood laminate (found at Lowes) on each side, covering the wires and bringing the thickness up to match the battery.
On the other end of the wire I soldered the right kind of plug for the battery I am using (basically doing what this guy did).
And that was it. Finished. Here's a photo showing it all together.
It may not be pretty, but damn it - it works! And the picture hooks are rock solid. No worries that this thing will every come apart.
Finally, Bravo to Panasonic for an incredible camera. But they should be ASHAMED when it comes to the power situation. They could mass produce and ship thousands (hundreds of thousands) of the adapters in a matter of days if they wanted to. There only reason I can figure they don't have them available, is because they want to sell more batteries. Oh wait, those aren't available either.
Anyway, I hope this has been of some help.
Easy to do and didn't take much time.....
After cutting a piece of scrap wood to size, minus "a bit" on the thickness (more later why), I made 2 channels in the wood and small holes at the end. Did this with a Dremmel and some small bits. I used 2 brass picture hooks that had smooth bottoms - many have dimpled bottoms (I found them at Lowes. Home Depot's had dimples.)
After soldering multi-stranded 24 AWG wire (taken from an old cell phone charger) to the modified hooks, I worked the ends into place. I then tested the block in the camera to make sure the contacts were out far enough. The camera turned on. Excellent. I used a hot glue gun to fill the channels with glue.
I then glued a strip of wood laminate (found at Lowes) on each side, covering the wires and bringing the thickness up to match the battery.
On the other end of the wire I soldered the right kind of plug for the battery I am using (basically doing what this guy did).
And that was it. Finished. Here's a photo showing it all together.
It may not be pretty, but damn it - it works! And the picture hooks are rock solid. No worries that this thing will every come apart.
Finally, Bravo to Panasonic for an incredible camera. But they should be ASHAMED when it comes to the power situation. They could mass produce and ship thousands (hundreds of thousands) of the adapters in a matter of days if they wanted to. There only reason I can figure they don't have them available, is because they want to sell more batteries. Oh wait, those aren't available either.
Anyway, I hope this has been of some help.
