Custom battery mount for Archer...

[Charles King]

Looking good Peter. A really great mod.

[Sebastien Audinelle]

Looking sexy, good work Peter.

 

Sebastien. :rolleyes:

[Matteo Quagliano]

Hi Pete.

 

Compliments, it does look really beatiful and I want one as soon as you can sen it. I have a job with red rock and 35mm lens where I'll probably need it on mid june. Do you think we can make it?

 

maqu

[Peter Hoare]

MmMm that will be tight if it has to be anodised aswell.

 

Im waiting for Ed to come over so we can try it out, see if anything needs changing.

 

I think mid June is pushing it but we can try....

 

Pete.

[Sebastien Audinelle]

Hey Peter,

 

Any idea on the price yet (US dollar)?

 

Thanks, Sebastien. ;)

[Peter Hoare]

Hey Peter,

 

Any idea on the price yet (US dollar)?

 

Thanks, Sebastien. ;)

 

With the plate and lemo connector, anodised with knbos and laser marking (all the trimings)

 

Probably around 100-120GBP?

[Matteo Quagliano]

i'm definitly in for one. Just let me know when and how. Thanks

 

Matteo

Edited June 4, 2009 by Matteo Quagliano

[Ed Moore]

Hi all,

 

Quick update and some pics.

 

Here's the prototype clamp in use today on a little RED shoot. Makes it much easier to have a shorter post (was crucial today as it was a "walking backwards down a windy narrow staircase" shot and I would have been tripping over a longer post) and the paralleling-in of the second plate into the rig power made a *huge* difference to the time between battery changes, plus when you do you can hot swap them - as long as there's one still attached, the camera stays on.

 

This version is not quite the final shape, isn't anodized, and has a temporary power cable out of it as Peter is still working out the perfect surface mount Lemo to use.

 

 

[Peter Hoare]

Haha, dont quite trust the IDX plate there then Ed?

[Ken Nguyen]

Haha, dont quite trust the IDX plate there then Ed?

You should flip the plate over and set the battery on top.

This way the IDX plate won't get much stress.

Cheers,

Ken.

[Ed Moore]

Hi Ken,

 

Ideally yes - although the curve of the archer's lower spar means that many batteries are too high to fit, depending on how far out you need the battery rods for DB.

 

The IDX plate is actually more than adequate (before this new one I had a crappy old Hawk-Woods V lock plate and even that never dropped a battery).

 

In this case I'd just managed to clip the battery coming round a corner and it fell off in front of the RED owner so felt discretion was the better part of valour and made an effort to make it a bit safer.

[Sebastien Audinelle]

Hey Peter,

 

I was wondering if there was any updates on this beautiful custom battery mount, I really need one.

 

Thanks, Sebastien.

[Peter Hoare]

Hi,

 

The machine shop and I are a bit busy working on other parts (see Hocus Focus in follow focus section) so this has had to go on the back burner for a while.

 

Will get it sorted out when we are done with those bits and pieces.

 

 

Wont be long, will post here when its done.

 

 

Pete.

[Sebastien Audinelle]

Hi,

 

I was just wondering if there was any news on the custom battery mount or if we should just give up and move on to a different option?

 

Thanks, Sebastien. :huh:

[Peter Hoare]

Hi Sebastian,

 

Defiantly don't give up, still got the drawings and the plan is to start producing them after I am finished with this current production run of Hocus Focus units which should be done in a few weeks.

 

 

 

Pete.