22Apr Adding a larger battery to the 7″ Haier monitor
I’ve received a number of e-mails asking about larger battery solutions for the Haier 7″ monitor. The short (less then 2 hours) battery life just doesn’t seem to cut it for a lot of people. You could spend $25 on a direct from Haier 2200 mAh battery (if you can find one), but that would only give you another 2 hours.
After looking around I think I’ve found a better solution. The I use with my lilliput monitor last for almost 6 hours, so why not adapt them to work with the Haier 7″ monitor. The only hard part is finding a power plug adapter.
I finally found this that will get you from the 12 volt 6800 mAh battery to the Haier 7″ monitor’s 4mm 12 volt plug. Just to make sure the monitor would run from the power plug alone I spliced together a few wires removed the Haier battery and tested it out. You can in fact power the Haier monitor from the 12 volt plug alone.
I just ordered the adapter cable today. Once it shows up I’ll give it a proper test and let you know how it turns out. With the battery adapted to the Haier monitor you can simply attach some Velcro to the back and your set.
May 20th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
[…] I mentioned a few weeks back that I had ordered an adapter that might allow me to use my document.write('heavy duty 6800 mah battery');heavy duty 6800 mah battery with the Haier HLT71 monitor. The adapter finally showed up and I had a chance to test it out. Basically this allows you to convert the output of this battery to the input of the Haier monitor. […]
January 28th, 2013 at 11:57 am
Which Lilliput monitor do you have? I’ve purchased one of these batteries and the adapter for my Haier and it works greta. now I want to get one for my new Lilliput 668GL-70NP/H/Y. I don’t know if the battery you recommend with work and/or what connector I’ll need.
Thanks for the great tip.
January 29th, 2013 at 9:22 pm
The cable that comes with that battery has the correct size of adapter for most of Lilliput’s monitors. Just take the adapter off and plug the cable into your monitor and you should be fine.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:32 pm
i think i will hafta get some of those large unwieldy batteries for my haier…i got the iKan battery plate for sony L batteries and used the size adapter you reviewed large batteries seem to wokr but the mavica style small ones i use for my CN126 lights don’t pack the punch
June 27th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
So you can just plug and play for the most part?
July 4th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Yep.
October 19th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Sounds nice. I need too figure out some way to attach this to my camera, and then get some sort of cover to put over this and my DIY igus slider to keep snow out…
It will be annoying because this thing has almost a 1/4 screw hole… Does it have any other thing to mount with?
I could probably just get a cheap tarp, but that might block the lens…
Any ideas?
October 19th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
@Deejay
Is it worth it to buy the zoom h2n over the h1? Or should I get the rode mic plugged directly to the camera?
Do you have any knowledge of how to make a motorized camera slider?
I’m going to attempt to build one with this screen on the side. Then, I’ll add some sort of tarp.
And about the name of your site, you think you’re a noob? That’s what i am. You’re practically a pro compared to me! 😀
February 27th, 2013 at 7:07 pm
will this work for the 3.5″ TFT LCD MINI MONITOR as well???