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Product Features
- Spare Li-Ion battery pack for the ContourHD cameras
- Ideal for maximising your shoot time when out on the mountains or trails
- Use your spare battery to continue recording the action
- Get up to an additional 2 hrs of record time
- Recharge using your USB cable with your ContourHD Helmet Cam
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Manufacturer's Description
Spare Li-Ion battery pack for the ContourHD cameras.
Ideal for maximising your shoot time when out on the mountains or trails
Product Description
Contour - battery ContourHD ContourGPS Contour+ ContourHD; ContourGPS; Contour+;
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If you've got a Contour GPS camera there's a reasonable chance that you'll be using it in fairly remote locations where you might not have easy access to a charging point. A fully charged battery with "average" video capture settings will probably get you between 2 - 2.5 hours of recording time. Given the ease of turning the camera on/off this should be enough for most situations but when you're on a "epic" ride in the hills, bike-packing across the country or just wanting to record a particularly long event, a spare battery is a good investment.
This one is the Real McCoy from Contour. There might be cheaper options available but my preference is always to go with the manufacturers own just in case there's a problem and your wartranty gets invalidated for using non OEM parts.
Because it's made by Contour, it just works. There's not really much more to say about it. It fits just like the supplied battery. It holds the same amount of charge (about 2 - 2.5 hrs given "normal" settings) and it charges in the same way. On the topic of charging, when you've only got one battery for your Contour, it's easy enough to charge it in the camera through the USB cable - with a second battery the USB charging adapter becomes a more useful addition (but not essential).
If it had provided a longer charge than the original then it would have been 5 stars. As it is, it's just the same as the one you get with the camera but it does give you and extra 2hours of recording time which I like so it gets 4 stars.
This one is the Real McCoy from Contour. There might be cheaper options available but my preference is always to go with the manufacturers own just in case there's a problem and your wartranty gets invalidated for using non OEM parts.
Because it's made by Contour, it just works. There's not really much more to say about it. It fits just like the supplied battery. It holds the same amount of charge (about 2 - 2.5 hrs given "normal" settings) and it charges in the same way. On the topic of charging, when you've only got one battery for your Contour, it's easy enough to charge it in the camera through the USB cable - with a second battery the USB charging adapter becomes a more useful addition (but not essential).
If it had provided a longer charge than the original then it would have been 5 stars. As it is, it's just the same as the one you get with the camera but it does give you and extra 2hours of recording time which I like so it gets 4 stars.
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19 reviews
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Bait and Switch???
14 Jan 2010
Amazon Verified Purchase
I recently ordered the VholdR 2350 CountourHD Battery as shown on the image as a factory battery only to be shipped a RageCams aftermarket battery?!? Everything in the description showed the factory battery but I did not receive it! The comments on the receipt say "(Not the same one shown)." What kind of shady business practice is this???
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
How to tell genuine from aftermarket - good from bad
24 Jan 2010
Amazon Verified Purchase
I own 2 genuine vholdr batteries now for my 1080HD system. People are having problems with poor quality aftermarket batteries. The genuine vholdr runs for a tad over 3 hours - enough to fill the 16GB disk easily with room to spare.
As with any new battery, you should charge it and drain it 3 times to "wake it up" upon receipt. This, and keeping it in a charged state, will prevent premature failure.
Now to tell if you bought a genuine product - the packaging is very distinct - clear plastic box folded from thin sheet plastic and meant to be hung on a rack. The box is much larger than the battery, and includes a small instruction card. Finally, both the box and battery carry the VholdR logo. Any other cheap packaging indicates a cheap battery. I bought mine from amazon and got the real thing which works fine with their system.
Technical specs: 1050 mAH Li-Ion, with 3 terminal sensor for charging properly.
Finally I don't want to stereotype that all non-OEM accessories are sub-par but as far as batteries go for cellphones, I have a motorola that will run 4-5 days while so called "super-aftermarket" batteries can barely keep it alive 30 hours without any use. Given these are the same size batteries I'd expect the real product to be essential here. I have designed products with Li-Ion batteries and met with the companies in China who make them - they are not ashamed to inform you that statistically one in 100,000 cells will fail explosively. That's 10 parts per million fail rate. But put 10 cells in a laptop and now it's a 100 part per million fail rate on laptop batteries since they have so many cells. So far this li-ion problem has only been improved, not eliminated, so stick with products designed for your system. As for other batteries, my GM car has an interstate battery that I replaced, and my honda has the factory battery which lasted 6 years.
As with any new battery, you should charge it and drain it 3 times to "wake it up" upon receipt. This, and keeping it in a charged state, will prevent premature failure.
Now to tell if you bought a genuine product - the packaging is very distinct - clear plastic box folded from thin sheet plastic and meant to be hung on a rack. The box is much larger than the battery, and includes a small instruction card. Finally, both the box and battery carry the VholdR logo. Any other cheap packaging indicates a cheap battery. I bought mine from amazon and got the real thing which works fine with their system.
Technical specs: 1050 mAH Li-Ion, with 3 terminal sensor for charging properly.
Finally I don't want to stereotype that all non-OEM accessories are sub-par but as far as batteries go for cellphones, I have a motorola that will run 4-5 days while so called "super-aftermarket" batteries can barely keep it alive 30 hours without any use. Given these are the same size batteries I'd expect the real product to be essential here. I have designed products with Li-Ion batteries and met with the companies in China who make them - they are not ashamed to inform you that statistically one in 100,000 cells will fail explosively. That's 10 parts per million fail rate. But put 10 cells in a laptop and now it's a 100 part per million fail rate on laptop batteries since they have so many cells. So far this li-ion problem has only been improved, not eliminated, so stick with products designed for your system. As for other batteries, my GM car has an interstate battery that I replaced, and my honda has the factory battery which lasted 6 years.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
not the VholdR brand, doesnt hold nearly the same charge
28 Sep 2009
Amazon Verified Purchase
not real impressed with the battery i got. it is a second because i ride all day long, but it doesnt last nearly as long as the one that came with the camera...
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