robint
Contributor
After hearing all the negatives about the monitor back for the GoPro hero2, I decided to go ahead and do a burn test on mine that I just purchased.
Sitting here at my desk, I turned on my GoPro2 and the monitor back comes on automatically. Then I started recording. After 22 minutes, the battery indicator still showed 3 ticks left (our of 4 ticks). I noticed the whole unit seemed warm, so I turned off, let it cool for 20 minutes, then turned everything back on including record. Once again, 20+ minutes running recording... still showing 3 ticks. I turned off the unit (once again it seemed very warm to touch). I thought maybe it wasn't really recording, so I removed the card and popped it into my computer. Sure enough, there were 2 HUGE files that had recorded. I deleted them, of course.
So.... that tells me the monitor back does not seem to drain the battery as quickly as everyone here said. Right? Over 40 minutes full record video mode with monitor back LCD on.
I looked at the battery, and it is my Wasabi battery,, not the original GoPro battery.
NOTE: I did take each of my 3 batteries (Original GoPro, 2 Wasabi) and charge them on my wall charger yesterday. All of the batteries charged for what seemed like a very long time, at least 3 hours each I am guessing but I was not checking them very often. Maybe they were reconditioning them? I haven't used my GoPro but maybe 3-4 times in the past year, and maybe not recharged all 3 batteries in that time either.
Comments???
robin
11 days til CocoView Resort and Roatan dive dive dive!!!
Sitting here at my desk, I turned on my GoPro2 and the monitor back comes on automatically. Then I started recording. After 22 minutes, the battery indicator still showed 3 ticks left (our of 4 ticks). I noticed the whole unit seemed warm, so I turned off, let it cool for 20 minutes, then turned everything back on including record. Once again, 20+ minutes running recording... still showing 3 ticks. I turned off the unit (once again it seemed very warm to touch). I thought maybe it wasn't really recording, so I removed the card and popped it into my computer. Sure enough, there were 2 HUGE files that had recorded. I deleted them, of course.
So.... that tells me the monitor back does not seem to drain the battery as quickly as everyone here said. Right? Over 40 minutes full record video mode with monitor back LCD on.
I looked at the battery, and it is my Wasabi battery,, not the original GoPro battery.
NOTE: I did take each of my 3 batteries (Original GoPro, 2 Wasabi) and charge them on my wall charger yesterday. All of the batteries charged for what seemed like a very long time, at least 3 hours each I am guessing but I was not checking them very often. Maybe they were reconditioning them? I haven't used my GoPro but maybe 3-4 times in the past year, and maybe not recharged all 3 batteries in that time either.
Comments???
robin
11 days til CocoView Resort and Roatan dive dive dive!!!
