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HVX-200 Design Flaw
Has anyone else had problems with the tabs breaking off where you snap on the battery. We have had 3 cameras lose these tabs and the batteries no longer stay secured in the dock. The weight of a bigger battery is too much for the horizontal battery dock.
Is there talk of going back to vertical for the next generation of the HVX-200? Or at least some sort of brace installed that handles the weight of the batteries.
Dave Adams
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Just returned from a field shoot with a brand new HVX-200 camera. The battery tabs were broken within 2 hours of our first shoot. We are using the larger batteries but the tabs seem remarkably flimsy and weak. It appears that the tabs are part of the housing and will be difficult to replace. Comments?? Peter
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Gotta agree with this one- wish the tabs were the same material as the camera body or a different design. 🙁 Very easy to do.
Noah
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Noah,
Did you also break your tabs in fairly short order after starting to use the camera? Is anyone from Panasonic reading this thread? I wonder if this would be considered a warranty item?
Thanks,
Peter
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I broke it on someone else’s camera and then learned to be very careful with it from that point on. I’d try contacting Panasonic not sure how they would see it in terms of warranty coverage.
noah
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I have heard of other camera ops experiencing the same thing.
You have to take it easy during battery swaps. -
I’ve had my camera for 3 Months and have worked it fairly hard. My battery mounts are damaged as well, but still holding the batteries (large Capacity) held in place. Perhaps a strong adapter could be designed to replace the clips?
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Okay, I think you’ll all crazy….
And then I looked at my own camera and found that 3 of 4 tabs are broken off.
Yip, this is a serious design issue. One that I’m sure needs to be addressed as a design flaw.
Jan?
Ken Nemetchek
Alberta Visual Communications
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When you say larger battery do you mean the battery that comes with with the camera? Also when you say tabs are you reffering to the 4 tabs that are holding the battery in place, 2 upper and 2 lower?
-Lars
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Yes, those are the little rascals in question. The battery I am referring to does stick out past the camera a bit but it is a panasonic battery I believe. At least it is the battery that came with the camera and is offered generally as a long play battery solution for this camera.
Peter
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Interesting, I will have to go easy on those now knowing they break. when I first got the camera I mentioned that it had a plasicy feel to it compaired to my PD100a. I looked at the tabs on my old cmaera and they were about the same size as the HVX but my old camera had a battery about 1/2 the size of the HVX’s
That looks like an area that will be hard to replace.
-Lars
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