Using NPF Batteries with Aputure 120D with an NPF to V-Mount Adaptor?
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puredrifting
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Terrible idea. NPFs are for small lights, not a 120d that actually takes some serious voltage and amperage and even goes through V-Mounts pretty quickly.
patrickbaldwin
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I tried this on an aputure LS1 panel. It doesn't work. The plate just cut out within seconds. Presumably not nearly enough power. Waste of time.
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L- mount
At this point NP is the more commonly known naming convention, but the mount itself is “L”.
Sony uses NP for many of their batteries. The NP-Fxxx series could spawn a NP-Fxx or NP-Fxxxx series with diferent mounts. And Sony could start making H900 battery with L mount. So, even NP-F could end up being uneccesarily confusing.
Even nofilmschool gets it mixedup. The core battery rep calls it L mount in the video though.
https://nofilmschool.com/core-makes-flat-battery
I understand when talking about the batteries themselves. And in the case of this thread, the grey area, of adapting a battery model to a vmount. Though typically people are talking about the L mount, and end up saying NP style, or NPF.
NP-1
NP-Fxxx
NP-FWxx
Are the three sony battery types i see the most on the average day.
NP-1 being the classic slab batteries, most commonly seen in a sound bag.
NP-Fxxx the ones mentioned in this thread, that are used on camcorders, mobile lights....
NP-FWxx being the batteries used by the A7 cameras.
I can’t think of anyone that says hc dionic style battery to V mount.
I can only think the aftermarket battery naming conventions are the reason for the crossing of terms.
At this point NP is the more commonly known naming convention, but the mount itself is “L”.
Sony uses NP for many of their batteries. The NP-Fxxx series could spawn a NP-Fxx or NP-Fxxxx series with diferent mounts. And Sony could start making H900 battery with L mount. So, even NP-F could end up being uneccesarily confusing.
Even nofilmschool gets it mixedup. The core battery rep calls it L mount in the video though.
https://nofilmschool.com/core-makes-flat-battery
I understand when talking about the batteries themselves. And in the case of this thread, the grey area, of adapting a battery model to a vmount. Though typically people are talking about the L mount, and end up saying NP style, or NPF.
NP-1
NP-Fxxx
NP-FWxx
Are the three sony battery types i see the most on the average day.
NP-1 being the classic slab batteries, most commonly seen in a sound bag.
NP-Fxxx the ones mentioned in this thread, that are used on camcorders, mobile lights....
NP-FWxx being the batteries used by the A7 cameras.
I can’t think of anyone that says hc dionic style battery to V mount.
I can only think the aftermarket battery naming conventions are the reason for the crossing of terms.
Imamacuser
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Your light draws 9 amps, but the first adapter plate only outputs 6 amps, so it won't work. The second adapter plate should work, but you'd probably be better off with high capacity v-mount batteries.