During these Trying Economic Times are You Looking Harder for High Quality Built, High Performance, Lithium Ion Broadcast Batteries at Substantially Lower Cost and Better Value? Upgrade Your New or Old Anton Bauer, IDX Endura, Generic, or Other Broadcast, Film, or Cinematographer Batteries and Chargers to Rathbone Energy Broadcast Lithium Ion Batteries and Chargers Today! Also check out our lights and bags.
Rathbone Energy is a Battery Assembler and Rathbone Broadcast lithium ion V mount and Gold mount battery packs and chargers serve as a Great Upgrade from those manufactured Off Shore for companies like Anton Bauer Batteries, IDX Endura Batteries V Mount, Sony BP V Mount, and VariZoom Lithium Ion Battery Packs and are a Lithium Ion Battery Value.
For 19 years Rathbone Energy has supplied only the very best nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride, and now lithium ion battery cells for new assembly and for rebuilding. Today we have to compromise on nickel cadmium battery cells and offer the “Best Available” battery cell in nickel cadmium.
Consider “Best Available” in Panasonic and Sanyo, NO CHINESE BATTERY CELLS:
Nickel Cadmium: 500 Discharge Cycles
Nickel Metal Hydride: 500 Discharge Cycles
New Lithium Ion: 500 Discharge Cycles, and 60% of the broadcast market has already gone to lithium ion.
Whether a Professional, Freelance, or Network buyer, once they understand the difference between Rathbone Energy Premium Lithium Ion Broadcast Batteries, overpriced segregated batteries with what we consider bad design, and box house low end batteries, 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.
Note: amateur recellers that come and go purchase pre-built battery inserts, on price, in bulk from any battery assembler that will meet the price, or they use a very low end cap welder to get by and they do NOT know batteries, and if an Anton Bauer Battery, do not test their recells with AB 2702’s with DDM.
- If you are going to buy lithium ion or nickel metal hydride battery packs, invest your money in a more quality product through Rathbone Energy……..
- Rathbone Energy offers the widest selection of lithium-ion Sony Style V mount batteries and Anton Bauer Style Gold mount batteries for broadcast and film cameras. It begins with a light weight BP95 that has a 95 watt-hour capacity; and extends to 724WH that allows hours of operation.
- They are available exclusively through Rathbone Energy in gold-mount, v-mount, 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 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.
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- All batteries are equipped with:
- LED indicators for monitoring the capacity.
- Camera Light Power Tap
- 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’s Best Grade lithium ion battery cells offer +/- 500 charge – discharge cycles and a consistent discharge performance curve throughout the cycle life allowing more run time per cycle. Low end 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 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 LG Chem. Panasonic, and Sanyo 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,
- All batteries are equipped with:
Rathbone Energy quality and price is Great. You are getting below box house pricing on the Best LG Chem, Panasonic, and Sanyo, lithium ion battery cells, they move fast, so there is a short lead time on orders. Do not wait, place your order today by telephone, email, or through our Rathbone Broadcast Battery Store.
Buy American and the Other Side of the Coin, you just have to get angry with USA greed.
I have posted the battery links you need below. I have also given some battery package examples.
Pictures that will enlarge substantially and detailed specification sheets are located at:
http://www.rathbonebroadcastbatteries.com Broadcast Only
SPECIAL PRICING:
See www.rathboneenergy.biz for special pricing. Because of our unexpected additional down time the pricing structure is extremely low but will not stay at these price points.
These prices are for single pack purchases of gold mount or v mount. Also, I have adaptor cords that can be plugged into the side of the battery converting the battery to 4 Pin XLR. Single pricing:
95WH: $195.00 130WH $278.00 160WH $308.00 200WH $478.00
Rathbone Lithium Ion Chargers sold at My Cost plus incoming freight :
Single Port Charger: $50.00 My Retail $78.00
Dual Port Charger with built in 4 pin XLR power supply and cable: $200.00, My Retail: $278.00
Four Port Charger with built in 4 pin XLR power supply and cable: $375.00, My Retail: $540.00
2 batteries: Free Single Port charger
4 batteries: Free 2X charger
8 batteries: Free 4X charger
4 units of a 95WH; $741.00 plus free 2X simultaneous charger with built in power supply and cable, 5% discount already applied for paying via Bank wire, Company/Cashiers Check, or Money Order.
4 units of a 160WH; $1,220.00 plus free 2X simultaneous charger with built in power supply and cable, 5% discount already applied for paying via Bank wire, Company/Cashiers Check, or Money Order.
8 units of a 160WH: $2,440.00 plus free 4X simultaneous charger with built in power supply and cable, or (2) 2X for an additional $25.00 5% discount already applied for paying via Bank wire, Company/Cashiers Check, or Money Order.
8 units of a 95WH: $1,480.00 plus free 4X simultaneous charger with built in power supply and cable, or (2) 2X for an additional $25.00. 5% discount already applied for paying via Bank wire, Company/Cashiers Check, or Money Order.
Rathbone Lithium Ion Broadcast Batteries were originally designed with a circuit which would cause another company’s Smart Chargers to recognize and charge our batteries. However, the factory we use immediately came back and told me that a number of their competitors were in possible scraps with another company over this and they would not install that circuit. Of course, since that is the case, neither will I. I can do better anyway.
a) Because of this All Rathbone Lithium Ion Gold Mount Style Broadcast Battery Chargers are sold at my cost plus incoming freight and a very, very minor markup to cover paperwork, or they are promotionally given in package deals of Rathbone Lithium Ion Broadcast Batteries, Gold Mount Style.
b) Sony, being the stand up company they are, does not trademark their V mount technology so every aftermarket vendor of V mount Lithium Ion Batteries and Chargers can simply duplicate the circuitry of Sony V Mount batteries and chargers. The question then becomes duplication quality. Unlike aftermarket battery distribution companies, Rathbone Energy the battery assembler, uses only the best components inside of our lithium ion broadcast battery packs and chargers.
So I can place you in this order and my bank wire to the factory with my next order it would be very nice to receive your order and payment quickly. Please read your detailed specifications sheets.
From the web page:
As you budget and do your 3 year and 5 year plans please consider this Important Information regarding rebuilding or recelling Any nickel cadmium battery including ProPac, TrimPac, ComPac, 30/13, Power Strap, and Proformer:
Rathbone Energy is an Environmentally Conscious Company striving to stay Green, and Now having our own line of lithium ion broadcast battery packs, Rathbone Energy has phased out new assembly and rebuilding with nickel cadmium battery cells. No longer supporting the rebuild or recell of OEM nickel cadmium battery products.
Being the only Battery Assembler Worldwide that supports rebuilding battery packs, we understand that this will create a hardship on those invested in OEM nickel cadmium battery packs, but this is a change that must/will happen to your inventory and we offer the great alternative. You cannot promote “Going Green” and use nickel cadmium battery cells.
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 four years ago. Starting in 2009, you can no longer sell nickel cadmium products in Europe and they have new laws regarding the disposal of nickel cadmium battery cells manufactured / assembled after 01/01/2009 that land on their soil.
Again, So I can place you in this order and my bank wire to the factory Monday it would be very nice to receive your order and payment quickly. Please read your detailed specifications sheets.
Sincerely,
Ron L. Rathbone
865-484-1783 Office
sales@rathboneenergy.com
www.rathboneenergy.com (Detailed Product Information)
www.rathbonebroadcastbatteries.com (Broadcast Batteries and Equipment Only, In detail)
www.rathboneenergy.biz (On-Line Store with On-line Specials)
www.batteriesandcircuits.com (Our attempt at a Blog)
There’s a better way – rathboneenergy.com – when cell quality is paramount.
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