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- Real Name: Peter Selbie
dummy battery or connect a plate to external power give you the same option about info of charge but....
internal battery connection had less range of voltage accept, external power go from 12 to 20v acceptable voltage.
i give you some reasons to use an external plate (i had one from tilta):
1) large range of voltage is better if your plate had some problems or oscillation about output voltage
2) you can keep internal battery and add external to record continuosly without stop, when external stop internal continue to give power to camera
3) you can put on camera or with long spiraled cable on you belt and leave camera lighter than internal dummy battery (usually very short cable)
4) use external mean you keep charged internal battery, if you need to be free or lighter, in every moments you are sure that you can disconnect external cable, and you are ready to continue to shoot handheld or gimbal without change nothing or you configuration.
the only reasons that you should not like external power is that if you have internal battery, it continue to keep charged internal battery and that consume a bit more battery than use directly battery, but fnp970 are quite less expansive against a vlock that you can buy 3-4 battery without problems.