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So with the crap weather today... I decided to strip my Drift and resolve an issue, which in all fairness I see as a design-fault on these units, this being the fact that when you remove or replace the battery - you lose your settings on the unit's internal clock.
REALLY this is a very basic and cheap add-on, which DRIFT could have added to the camera....
atch:
Anyway - a few bits of info to sort it if you guys have the need to!
1. Buy yourself a 330uf 6.3v Electrolytic Capacitor (small casing) - I used 2 of these in parallel - however only one needed
2. Remove the Battery
3. Remove the 8 x screws holding the casing together
4. Open the unit and you could use a bit of glue (gluestick) to seat the Capacitor inside the housing (see pics)
5. Connect the Negative (-) leg to the Black wire & Positive (+) leg to the Red wire (in the last pic I have used Grey to depict the Negative connection and Red for the Positive from the Caps to the two power terminals)
Obviously I soldered the connectotions - however you could merely loosen the contact screws and wrap the Capacitor legs around the screw and re-tighten.
The charge that the Cap will hold is enough to keep your settings while the battery is being swapped out...
Hope it's useful info :thumleft:
REALLY this is a very basic and cheap add-on, which DRIFT could have added to the camera....
atch:Anyway - a few bits of info to sort it if you guys have the need to!
1. Buy yourself a 330uf 6.3v Electrolytic Capacitor (small casing) - I used 2 of these in parallel - however only one needed
2. Remove the Battery
3. Remove the 8 x screws holding the casing together
4. Open the unit and you could use a bit of glue (gluestick) to seat the Capacitor inside the housing (see pics)
5. Connect the Negative (-) leg to the Black wire & Positive (+) leg to the Red wire (in the last pic I have used Grey to depict the Negative connection and Red for the Positive from the Caps to the two power terminals)
Obviously I soldered the connectotions - however you could merely loosen the contact screws and wrap the Capacitor legs around the screw and re-tighten.
The charge that the Cap will hold is enough to keep your settings while the battery is being swapped out...
Hope it's useful info :thumleft:
