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Green Since 1989!
A Full Disclosure Web Site: THIS AND
BATTERY LINKS FROM THIS SITE ARE THE
ONLY WEB SITES FOR RATHBONE BROADCAST BATTERIES!
Thank you for visiting us at NAB2007
Booth #: C10621 but after many consecutive years of Extreme NAB expense,
dissatisfaction, and despite NAB brags of increased visitors, a visible
reduction in floor traffic, we have decided to forgo NAB Hype enabling
use to continue keeping your price for our battery packs using only the
very best LG Chem, Panasonic, and Sanyo battery cells and quality at
less than half the prices of Anton Bauer, IDX, Sony, and Red One, not to
mention generic brands.
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allowed Active X Links to see any Hover Link buttons or rotating
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Upgrade your
Anton Bauer Batteries, Dionic Batteries, IDX Batteries, Endura Batteries, Red One Batteries, Sony BP Batteries,
and Generic brand batteries to Rathbone Lithium Ion Broadcast Batteries Today!
Rathbone =
Quality, Price, and Value
Airline Travel Ready
Split
Packs (200WH)
Rathbone Broadcast Batteries Rechargeable Lithium Ion Broadcast
Battery Packs for Film,
and Cinematographer Camera Batteries fitting JVC, Panasonic, Sony, Red One,
Steadicam or any product using the Anton Bauer Batteries Style Gold or Sony
Batteries BP, IDX
Batteries Endura, Red One Batteries Style V Mounting Systems. And, of course, Rathbone Energy
Professional Battery Rebuilding Services. Place your package or
bulk order today!
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Cinema Products,
Up to 795WH at >20AH Rate,
(420WH, 525WH, 795WH)
Lights, Sign Wave Inverters
Many mounting plates, adaptors, and cables
Did I mention Lights, Bags, and Sign Wave
Inverters? All
Below. We stock parts for all of our light kits.
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During these
Trying Economic Times are You Looking Harder for Higher Quality Built,
Higher Performance Lithium Ion Broadcast Batteries at Substantially Lower
Cost and Better Value? Buy Rathbone in bulk before the price goes up!
Generic Cases, Rathbone Guts.
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Rathbone Energy is a
Battery Assembler and Rathbone Broadcast Lithium ion V
mount and Gold mount battery packs and chargers are equal to or exceed
Anton Bauer Batteries, Dionic Batteries, IDX Batteries Endura,
Red One Batteries V Mount, Sony BP Batteries V
Mount, and the many generic Lithium Ion Battery Packs and are a True Lithium Ion
Battery Value. Place your package or bulk order today!
Gold Mount
Front
Side
View shows Power Tap and LCD Power Display
The "BEST AVAILABLE" Battery Cell:
Nickel Cadmium: Less than 500 Discharge Cycles, Mute Point (See Note at bottom
of page)
Nickel Metal Hydride: Less than 500 Discharge Cycles
Rathbone Lithium Ion Choice: 500 Discharge Cycles, the
highest discharge cycles available. When there are cells that are
truly better, (beyond marketing hype), we will have them first.
Red One V Mount Style Rathbone Broadcast Red One V Mount Alternative batteries,
(5 contact points), will
accept charge on Rathbone, Red One, and Sony BP V-Mount
Battery chargers. From
a Red One client, quote: "It is best to never power ANYTHING third-party
off the RED body itself--stick to the D-taps at the battery. Red One is awfully finicky when it comes to external accessories."
Accepting V Mount Charge from different V Mount Lithium
Ion Chargers
ReceiveaRathbone Broadcast Batteries On The Run (OTR)Single, 2X, or
4X Lithium Ion Battery Charger
FREE with the purchase of certain Rathbone Energy battery
package deals. Go to
www.rathboneenergy.biz
for Special Pricing. More questions? For quickest response, email
sales@rathboneenergy.com
and someone will return your sales inquiry between working on batteries
or, if no one is able to catch a telephone ring, leave a telephone voice
mail at 865-484-1783, FYI, short handed, use
email first. Place your package or bulk order today!
All Rathbone Lithium Ion Broadcast Batteries come
standard with
A Standard 2 Pin Power Tap Connector to Power lights directly.
A Standard DC Center Pin
Negative Barrel Connector for Travel Charge or Power Output Not
to Exceed 55WH.
5 LED Power Indicator
Cells: LG Chem, Panasonic and Sanyo,
Best
Available lithium ion battery cells with the highest discharge
cycles available, No use of Good or Better options, only "Best" cells.
And NEVER Chinese or South African battery cells under any
private label
Are Rated at 500 Charge Discharge Cycles
which are the Very Best and Highest Discharge Cycle lithium ion
battery cells available.
(Best NiCad Available and Best Ni-MH Available:
No longer manufactured by Panasonic or Sanyo and much less than
500 Discharge Cycles)
It is normal for the battery
capacity of a premium brand battery cell listed above, to be at
60% of the original capacity after 500 discharge charging cycles
which is the best and highest discharge cycle lithium ion cell
available -
Short circuit: built-in resumable
protection circuit board
Light Grey Case to reduce heat absorption from the sun
Flat packing of cells over nesting of cells to assist in
heat reduction. Example: ProPac, Hytron and Dionic 90 have
a nested configuration of battery cells.
Detailed Battery Specification Sheet and
MSDS Sheet, in Black and White backing up what we tell you is
inside the battery packs is what we
are selling you.
Rathbone could build alternative battery
packs with Chinese / South African battery cells for 75% less but we have
refused to do Chinese or "Name Brand" battery cells.
However, for the non-professional
wanting cheap batteries with cheap performance, for at least
half the price, we are thinking on it. If we do, we Will
tell you they are poop in a bag before you give us your money.
But,When your
livelihood depends on your batteries a professional does not settle for second
best, let alone use Chinese battery cells and is not waived by overpriced
alternatives for fear of not being popular or part of a Kiss A _
_ crowd.
RATHBONE
RED ONE BATTERY ALTERNATIVES COME IN 160WH AND 200WH WITH AN
INTERNAL CHIP FOR RED ONE CAMERA VIEWFINDER COMMUNICATIONS.
Red One Battery Alternative
Scroll the complete table just
below!
REMEMBER: Compare our Rathbone 95WH Gold
Mount, Red One V Mount Style Batteries, and Sony Style V Mount
Batteries, with the very best and highest number of real discharge
cycle battery cells from Panasonic and LG
Chem, to the favorite son price of Anton Bauer Batteries Gold Mount, IDX
Batteries, Sony Batteries,
or Red One Batteries V Mount Technology.
Our average price for a better
quality and value 95WH Li-ON battery in quantities of four is a
rough $184.75 each plus a FREE 2X Simultaneous Charge Lithium Ion
Charger with a 4 Pin XLR Power Supply! On a 160WH, a rough $289.75
each plus the same FREE Charger!
Anton Bauer Batteries Average
Favorite Son Price per Dionic HC is $400.00, Dionic 90 - $350.00,
Dionic 180 - $925.00, Hytron 50 - $225.00, and Hytron 140 -
$450.00 each. An AB Charger is always extra.
IDX Batteries Average Price per E-10
Endura 98WH - $289.95, ELITE Endura 142WH - $599.95 each. V Mount
Charger is always extra.
Water-proof materials, completely
protecting the delicate equipment from dampness and rain, and
any worse outdoor conditions. You can view the camera's running
status easily through the large transparent windows. It's
flexible & easy to use. Used for all kinds of professional video
camcorders.
Rathbone Energy is a battery assembler, (A factory), not a box house
or widget buyer storing bulk purchase battery packs for very long periods of
time. And our Rathbone Broadcast Lithium Ion Battery Packs serve as a Great alternative
to those battery packs manufactured for years Off ShoreFor companies like Anton Bauer
Batteries, IDX Batteries,
Red One Batteries, Sony Batteries, or Generic batteries like VariZoom
Batteries, Switt Batteries and a host of other generic Chinese batteries. Rathbone Energy called
all other battery assemblers and distributors to the table in 1993 by
developing the FIRST and ONLY FULL DISCLOSURE WEB SITE,
www.rathboneenergy.com , educating the end
users and giving extreme detail on battery pack design. Rathbone is the
only broadcast battery supplier that is an actual battery assembler.
No broadcast battery supplier actually assembles Li-ON cells into packs
themselves or within the USA. With proper motivation I could
supply contact information and links to their suppliers.
Whether a Professional, Freelance, or
Network buyer, once they understand the difference between Rathbone
Premium Lithium Ion Broadcast Batteries, overpriced segregated batteries
with what we consider bad design, and box house low end batteries that
have been on the shelf for a very long period and more than likely not
in a climate controlled storage environment, they
choose Rathbone.
A Professional wants
a better value but also understands that when your livelihood depends on
your batteries you don't settle for second best or worse in product
quality, knowledge, or by use of low grade and "Brand Name" cells and
short cuts. A professional is also not waived by overpriced
alternatives for fear of not being popular or part of a Kiss A _ _
crowd.
If you are going to buy lithium ion battery
packs, nickel metal hydride battery packs, or rebuild your battery
packs, invest your money in a more quality product through Rathbone
Energy........
Rathbone offers the widest selection of lithium-ion Sony
Batteries Style V mount batteries
and Anton Bauer Batteries Style Gold mount batteries, and Red One
Batteries Style
Batteries for broadcast and film cameras. It
begins with a light weight BP65 (1.2 lb.) that has a 65
watt-hour capacity; and extends to 700WH that allows hours of
operation.
They are available exclusively through Rathbone
Energy in gold-mount, v-mount, red one v mount style, and 4-pin xlr battery types that suit various kinds of
broadcast and film cameras. The battery housings are
ergonomically designed to enable robust usage; and yet easy to
handle.
Excellent Battery protection circuitry are built-in to safeguard against
over-discharge, over-charge and over-current.
We have streamlined the internal
operation and performance circuitry of
these batteries and they have built in protection circuitry to
ensure the highest degree of safety operation available.
Rathbone is a battery assembler since 1989, are competent, and
we use proper weld tabs, insulators, and spacers.
By streamlining these batteries we remove
unnecessary and fragile components that might be used to force someone's
battery to only work with one brand charger.
Unnecessary components that have nothing to
do with the safety of the battery only increase the chance that
the battery will fail prematurely because of unnecessary
components being damaged when a battery is jolted or dropped.
Unless there is a melt down the end user never knows the
difference, thinks the cells are bad and buys a new pack.
It also reminds me of a built in program on a thermostat for an
air conditioner filter or a broadcast product that takes an
average and then reads, "Service", whether the product needs
service or not.
All batteries are equipped with:
LED indicators for monitoring the capacity.
Camera Light Power Tap
DC Barrel Center Pin Negative
Connector for a travel charger or power output not to exceed 55WH
Maximum.
You will also notice the lighter reflective
color of the case and the flat nature of the battery pack design
which allows less rows of cells that in return allow better heat
dissipation of the internal battery cells. The case for the
batteries and chargers are generic but are exactly what I wanted
for my battery and charger guts..
LG Chem, Panasonic, and Sanyo "Best
Available" lithium ion battery
cells offer the highest discharge cycles available at +/- 500 charge - discharge cycles and a consistent
discharge performance curve throughout the cycle life allowing more run time per cycle. Low end
"Brand Name", Economy, third world
and Chinese cells offer < 200 charge - discharge cycles but also
supply a quick and constant degrading discharge curve,
performance, and it is not unusual to see battery cell leakage,
especially in Chinese cells,
which is a danger to the battery, the equipment, and most
importantly, the users.
Individual battery packs are
assembled from the same battery cell lot numbers.
(Lot-same manufacturing run)
As with our rebuilding and
assembly lines, only fresh cells.
Your battery packs are custom built
under strict quality control using new, fresh premium Panasonic,
Sanyo, and LG, balanced battery cells from the same respective
manufactured battery cell lots. Battery cells do not have an infinite shelf storage life. Therefore, we do
not build up a bulk of battery packs to be left sitting on shelves.
Rathbone Energy
called all other battery assemblers and distributors to the
table in 1993 by developing the FIRST and ONLY FULL DISCLOSURE
WEB SITE educating the end users and giving extreme detail on
battery cell specifications and battery pack design,
Our quality and price is Great. You
are getting below box house pricing on the Best Panasonic, Sanyo, and LG
cells, they move fast, so there is a short lead time on orders. Do not wait, place your
order today by email, telephone, or through our Rathbone Broadcast
Battery Store,
www.rathboneenergy.biz .
Why we refuse to rebuild IDX Endura V Mount Batteries,
Why we no longer rebuild Anton Bauer Dionic 90 Batteries, Why we no longer rebuild
nickel cadmium batteries.
*Nickel Cadmium battery cells are environmentally
unfriendly. Thanks to
International Environmental Concerns and the good laws of other countries,
our battery cell manufacturers have already started to phase nickel cadmium
from their manufacturing lines. Panasonic did so in 2005. Sanyo
started their depletion in 2008. You
cannot use nickel cadmium battery cells and be green or promote yourself as
environmentally friendly. Rathbone Energy
is an
Environmentally Conscious Company striving to stay Green since 1989. Having our own line of lithium ion
broadcast battery packs, Rathbone Energy has phased out battery assembly and
also battery rebuilding using nickel cadmium, no longer supporting the rebuild
of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) nickel cadmium battery products in any
market. Being the only Battery Assembler
Worldwide that supports rebuilding battery packs, we understand that this
will create a hardship on those invested in nickel cadmium products but we offer
our Upgrade and great
alternative.
Nickel Metal Hydride: Panasonic stopped production of
small cell nickel metal hydride cells in 2009 and in a restructure mode,
Sanyo Battery followed. If I could find Panasonic or Sanyo nickel
metal hydride battery cells through Panasonic, Sanyo, or another Valued
Added distributor, (who by the way have $5,000.00 minimum orders), the date
codes on the cells would be too old and unacceptable for premium
capacity ratings. Chinese and South African/Chinese battery cells under any
private label name have an average 200 discharge cycles, immediate battery
cell deterioration, and cell leakage which will damage circuit boards and
components. We do NOT do Chinese cells.
Since we no longer rebuild or do new
assembly with nickel cadmium battery cells below is a contact for recycling all your nickel cadmium,
nickel metal hydride, and lithium ion battery packs. We are NOT
affiliated with any recycle contact.
For those with minimal quantities of nickel cadmium battery packs they
can be dropped off at any Home Depot, Lowes, Sears, etc.
Place a note in your box letting them know you were
referred to them by Rathbone..
Cash Discount for Bank wire,
Cashier's / Company Check, Money Orders included on prices listed in
our on-line store.
THE "CONTACT US" AND "SHIP TO" ON THIS WEB SITE,
rathboneenergy.com, rathbonebroadcastbatteries.com, and
rathboneenergy.biz, ARE THE ONLY CONTACTS AND SHIP TO LOCATIONS FOR
RATHBONE ENERGY.08/05, or Rathbone Broadcast Batteries, January 2010..
March 2010, Chinese companies are trying to confuse the market with ALL
of the other dot whatever extensions. That is actually flattering
for me but is also a real problem.
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Rathbone Energy 1991 - 2xxx. All Rights Reserved.
Rathbone Broadcast Red One V Mount Alternative batteries,
(5 contact points), will
accept charge on Rathbone, Red One, and Sony BP V-Mount
Battery chargers. 
