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For all our active artists who love to travel and shoot outdoors, sometimes in the middle of nowhere, without any option to power your phone, camera, or laptop – this episode might help you stay “charged” anywhere! Professional photographer Gavih Hoey from AdoramaTV shares with us his mobile setup that creates full-on editing station at any location. In this case we find him and his videographer friend Matt Madrid in the middle of the desert.
Gavin explains: “We’re shooting all day doing some motorcycle shots, some slow-mo shot stuff for AdoramaTV, and we need to be able to check our footage, make some quick edits. Make sure that we’re getting everything, because we only have one day to do all this stuff, and we are shooting a full day, and so the savior of the day is this setup.”
“This is my Tether Tools on-site power, and my Tether Table. We have basically set up a portable workstation in the middle of nowhere. The key to this is the power, so this is on-site power, right? Here, this is a gigantic battery that powers this little guy right here. This gives you AC power, so you can plug in small electronic devices like a laptop, and you can charge your USB devices.”
“So I’ve got my Osmo Pocket charging. I’ve got some GoPro batteries charging. I’m keeping my iPhone charged. All of that works off of one gigantic battery. So let me take this battery off really quickly to show you exactly what you’re getting. This is a tether tools on-site DTaP V-mount battery, now V-mount batteries like this have been an industry standard for years, and so they’re incredibly popular because they pack a lot of punch. This battery is a hundred and fifty watt hours, and it can also output to a USB port, which is on the side here, for five volts, which means really fast charging.”
“But the way you can use this, there’s really two ways, one is to mount this on a Tether Table like I’ve mounted it, or you can also use this.”
“This is a Tether Tools Versa V-Mount Mount, and so this attaches securely to that, and then what you can do – this has a 5/8 inch plug here… so you can put that to any kind of standard 5/8 inch rod system, you can hang this from a tripod, you can put a super clamp on there… on the other side of this, there’s some velcro strips so what you do is… you take this little AC power port, and you would put that on that side, so the entire thing is just hanging wherever you want that. You can do that or… you can mount it to the Tether Table, which is what I’ve done and so there’s a V mount that you can attach to the bottom, and then your AC port just mounts to wherever you want that, that comes on and off, and so you can put that on the front, or on the back, and then you can charge all of your portable devices.”
“So you can plug in AC powered things like laptops. You can plug in USB powered things… so I’ve got an Osmo Pocket, my iPhone, I’m charging my GoPro batteries off of this, all at the same time. You can’t charge a television or something that’s going to draw a lot of power, but all your laptops and things like that can be charged off of this for hours, and that makes a huge difference when you’re shooting all day on location.”
“So let’s take a closer look at exactly how this is set up. Now that I’ve securely attached my battery to the V mount on the bottom side of my Tether Table, I can plug my D-Tap to AC power supply into the D-Tap on the mount itself, and that means that it’s going to be taking the power from the plugs on the battery not the D-Tap on the side. So I get maximum oomph from the battery. The maximum wattage, the maximum voltage. So I can really charge things up quickly, and then it can’t be any more simple than just plugging in your power supply, just like you would a wall outlet, and on the side you have your USB ports. There’s a switch to turn this on and off to make sure you don’t drain the battery throughout for extended periods of time.”
“The other thing I might want to mention is, that this comes with this little mount here, which you can then just slide… this AC power supply on to the front, or the back of your Tether Table. It’s also velcroed on there, so if you want to use that, the other mount that I showed you previously, you can just attach that using the velcro strips. So it’s really really versatile, and once you’re done if you’re going to a different location, you can top off the power to your battery using a car adapter to make sure that you always have juice on the go.”
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