Mounting Batteries; Mounting V-Mount Or Gold Mount Batteries; Using Your Own Battery Plate - Blackmagicdesign Blackmagic URSA Installation And Operation Manual

Mounting Batteries

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Connecting a third party battery plate lets you mount
V-mount or gold mount batteries.
If you need to modify any battery plate to plug into URSA,
use the supplied adapter cable and connector, which is also
available from your local Blackmagic Design support office.
Mounting Batteries

Mounting V-mount or Gold Mount Batteries

You can easily mount industry standard V-mount or gold mount batteries to Blackmagic URSA or URSA Mini.
To mount a battery, you'll need to attach a Blackmagic V-mount battery plate, a third party V-mount
or gold mount battery plate to your camera's plate mount. Some third party battery manufacturers
provide battery plates with the correct molex 51353-1200 connector for plugging into URSA's molex
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power connector. You can purchase V-mount battery plates from Blackmagic Design resellers, or
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12 V-mount and gold mount battery plates from suppliers of professional digital cinema and video
equipment. If you don't have an off the shelf battery plate designed for Blackmagic URSA or URSA
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With the third party plate connected to your camera, you can now mount a V-mount or gold
mount battery.

Using your own Battery Plate

Adapter Cable and Connector
If you don't have an off the shelf battery plate designed to plug into URSA and want to modify your
own battery plate, you can use the supplied adapter cable and connector, which is also available at
your local Blackmagic Design support office.
To wire the adapter cable and connector to your battery plate:
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Ensure the joins are well insulated.
Remove Blackmagic URSA or URSA Mini's molex power cover from the rear panel by
unscrewing the 4 corner screws. You'll now see Blackmagic URSA's 12 way molex 55959-
1230 power connector.
Connect Blackmagic URSA or URSA Mini's 12 way molex 55959-1230 power connector to
your third party battery plate.
Screw the third party battery plate onto your Blackmagic URSA or URSA Mini's plate
mounting points using 4 x M3 screws. Make sure the connector cable is tucked safely into
the cable slot and not crushed between the plates when tightening.
Strip approximately half an inch of insulation from the end of each red and black wire.
Solder all 4 x red 'Batt' wires to the corresponding 'positive' wire from your battery plate.
Solder all 4 x black 'GND' wires to the corresponding 'negative' wire from your battery plate.