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The power charge and overall reliability of the camera’s battery are crucial to the ENG crew covering high-pressure breaking-news events.

To pre-empt battery failure, Anton/Bauer helps streamline battery-maintenance protocols while delivering critical information to the camera operator with a USB battery-management application.

 

When a battery is installed in the Anton/Bauer USB battery-manager bracket, information is downloaded from the power device via the battery-management software onto a computer. The software, which stores all related data for the purpose of usage tracking, then automatically opens a file based on the battery’s serial number and date of manufacture.

With the available data, the application offers a user-defined capacity trip-point selection to invoke an early warning e-mail as the battery approaches 60% or 70% of its capacity, for example. The software also provides end-user-defined options for local, regional and Anton/Bauer e-mail addresses.

 

“Our new USB battery-management application gives the camera operator the information to not only know how much charge is left, but also the details of the overall battery health,” said Joe Murtha, Anton/Bauer’s engineering manager. “The USB application delivers all essential information about the battery and the interaction with the particular camera, giving the operator high confidence going into a critical capture situation,” he added.

The battery-management software calculates how long a given battery for a particular camera will run, according to an included database of professional video cameras and their respective load ratings. The operator simply selects the camera model and the software automatically displays the running time for the installed battery. The user can also enter camera specifications into the database.

The screen displays essential information such as the battery model (for example, HyTron 140), complete with a picture of the installed battery, and its temperature, voltage, present capacity, learned capacity, name-plate capacity and serial number. A graphical representation of the battery’s real-time ‘fuel gauge’ also appears on the screen displaying the percentage of capacity and the remaining running time.

 

 

 

 

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