What is needed to have a V-mount battery power an EVF, monitor, light, and FS700?

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Ernest Becker

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It seems like the v-mount battery is the most versatile choice to power a rig (and please correct me there is a better choice in a high capacity li-ion battery).

Please describe all the equipment needed to put an external battery on the rear 15mm rods of an FS700 rig, and, power simultaneously:
...an Alphatron EVF, and
...a Marshall V-LCD90MD monitor, and
...a Litepanels miniplus LED light, and
...the FS700 itself

When the Odyssey 7Q is released it would replace the Marshall monitor on this rig, so if the connector/equipment is known to do this please describe it as well.

Specific make/model recommendations of each component would be much appreciated ...I am a bit slow.

Many thanks in advance.
 
I have a similiar configuration. FS700 + Alphatron + LED Ringlite and maybe soon an Odyssey.
I have a Bebob 15V plate which has one D-Tap and 4 4pin Hiroses which give 12V and 7,2V. For powering the FS700 there is SonyNPF Dummy to 4 PinHirose also from Bebob. With ur alphatron came a cable which u can use with the D-Tap. And the Lite (maybe its like yours) has a 2,5mm DC Out ... there i have a cable from DC to 4pin hirose also. The Odyssey is also powered with the Hirose Output.
That bebob plate is very nice because its all regualted outputs so u either have 7,2 or 12V and u can power all there is.
 
As has been stated you will need some sort of power distribution box

I ended up buying one from Hawkwoods but I found there stuff to be over priced ( http://www.hawkwoods.com/products/d...mainMenuItemToSlide=16&asi=dc-5d1&asi2=dc-5d2 )

I later came across the power distribution packs from F&V and the value here is incredible. I haven't used them but there is not very much to these boxes.

http://www.fvlighting.com/v-mount-battery-adapter-system-with-hdmi.html

I ended up paying close to $570 USD for the Hawkwoods stuff...but that included an adapter for my FS700, rail mounting system and D-Tab extension cable. Look around a little before you buy. I probably would have purchased the F&V power distribution box had I found it in time.

If you bought the F&V option you would still need to find an adapter for the FS700 and the only two I could find were the Westside option or the Hawkwoods option. There was a thread on here where someone did an extensive review of his Lanparte/FS700 Rig. In that review, the reviewer discussed finding the same power supply connector used on an earlier consumer Sony camcorder model which theoretically could be used to create a D-Tap cord for your FS-700. You would have to do some digging but the information is somewhere on this site. Good Luck
 
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Many thanks to all... we really appreciate your help.

We are in the process of trying:
...IDX Endura batteries
...IDX PV257 battery plate (dtaps out for 7.3v and 14v)
...Shape cheese plate (the 15mm rod battery mount)
...Anton Bauer dtap 4-to-1 splitter
...Westside AV handgrip relocater
...Westside AV dtap to FS700 power cable
...XLR 4pin to dtap cable

When the 7Q is released we'll get a Hirose to dtap cable.

Will advise if any issue or problem arises. So far it works as we had hoped.

Thanks again.
 
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