{"id":153,"date":"2013-08-30T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-06-19T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T01:13:09","slug":"idx-np-7ls-battery-back-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/idx-np-7ls-battery-back-from-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"IDX NP-7LS Battery-  Back From the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='625' height='382' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ug1J2RZcc0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame when a high quality Lithium-ion rechargeable dies. Throw one away, and there&#8217;s a lot of sophisticated charging technology you&#8217;re throwing away with it.<br \/>\nNP-1&#8217;s are popular rechargeable batteries for location sound applications. They were originally created for powering professional cameras and VTR&#8217;s.<br \/>\nToday, a Lithium-ion NP-1&#8217;s costs about \u00a0US$ 180 to $225, depending on brand. \u00a0In the Li-Ion category, chargers and batteries are typically not compatible across brands.<br \/>\nNew cells for the NP-1&#8217;s can be purchased individually for about eight dollars each. But creating a reliably-soldered series-parallel pack for an NP-1 is probably more trouble than its worth.<br \/>\nI picked up a couple of VariZoom brand NP-1&#8217;s before realizing they are not compatible with my IDX chargers. The IDX will charge them partially before exhibiting a fault condition. So the VariZooms collected dust on my shelf.<br \/>\nThen I was given some IDX NP-7LS NP-1&#8217;s that had been purchased but never used. About 8 years old, they would not accept a charge. So off to the shelf they go.<br \/>\nWhat follows is a happy marriage between the two brands, and a couple of like-new IDX NP-1&#8217;s for me.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"320\" height=\"266\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" class=\"\" data-thumbnail-src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/5ug1J2RZcc0\/0.jpg\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/youtube.googleapis.com\/v\/5ug1J2RZcc0&#038;source=uds\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"320\" height=\"266\"  src=\"https:\/\/youtube.googleapis.com\/v\/5ug1J2RZcc0&#038;source=uds\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a shame when a high quality Lithium-ion rechargeable dies. Throw one away, and there&#8217;s a lot of sophisticated charging technology you&#8217;re throwing away with it. NP-1&#8217;s are popular rechargeable batteries for location sound applications. They were originally created for powering professional cameras and VTR&#8217;s. Today, a Lithium-ion NP-1&#8217;s costs about \u00a0US$ 180 to $225, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}