Re: External battery for Toshiba???

[P3D Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'm wondering if anyone has tried to rig an external battery pack for their
>Toshiba camcorder so they can run for longer than 60'.  I'm going to have
>another good opportunity to use the camera in a couple months and don't know if
>I'll be able to connect to house power for it.  I'd LIKE to have more than a
>60'
>time limit but don't have a spare battery.  An external pack sounds like the
>way
>to go for more time, but I've noexperience with that.

  If you have the adapter that lets you run your camcorder off the
charger you are half way there. My Canon one looks like a very thin
battery on the camcorder end and has a 1 metre cord that ends in a
coaxial power plug.

  Build a box with the matching power jack and you are set.

  You could use 5 of the Radio Shack Hi capacity D-cell Nicads
which have 4 Ah capacity. Or get a 6V gel cell of the desired
capacity (though you probably need a special gel cell charger
then).

  I would recommend putting a fuse (perhaps 10A) in the battery
box in case the cable or adapter end ever short the battery out.
The fuse will blow preventing a melt down or fire.

Greg E.



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