GoPro Battery Life For Time Lapse?

[neenaw]

I'm looking to get a GoPro to use on a couple of cycling trips this year. It'll be used to take a photo every 60s or thereabouts over a period of a few hours, possibly to put together as a time lapse video.

Could anyone give me some idea of how much battery life I could expect from either the GoPro Hero 5 or the Hero 5 Session?
I think the Sesison might be the better camera to use due to it's smaller size but the battery life may be a bigger deciding factor.

[TheRainMaker]

Avoid the session, you will need something with interchangeable batteries.

The 5 will last somewhere between 1.5 hours to 2.5 hours depending on settings, temperature etc etc.

[Dave.]

You could try a portable usb charger.

https://www.anker.com/products

[neenaw]

Dave. said:

You could try a portable usb charger.

https://www.anker.com/products

The portable charger would be ideal normally but for the particular ride I'm doing it's going to be fairly rough and I wouldn't fancy the charger's chances of staying attached to the GoPro or the bike!
For anyone who knows it, it's the Paris Roubaix Sportive and the cobbles are pretty brutal by all accounts.

[Fordo]

Portable USB battery plugged into the gopro, is your only real way of doing it. Gaffer tape etc, may be the way to keep it all together.

A year ago I helped plan a production that involved multiple body mounted gopros - it was a live training event, so the cameras could not have their batteries changed, and needed to run for 4+ hours.

I found, with anker 5600mAh battery pack, plugged into a charged gopro, ran a camera continuously recording video for about 4 and a half hours (and with a very large micro sd card). - timelapse would probably last a little longer.

[Nickyboy]

neenaw said:

The portable charger would be ideal normally but for the particular ride I'm doing it's going to be fairly rough and I wouldn't fancy the charger's chances of staying attached to the GoPro or the bike!
For anyone who knows it, it's the Paris Roubaix Sportive and the cobbles are pretty brutal by all accounts.

I bought the above powerbank for my GoPro session, used for the first time this weekend and had it running for close to 4 hours. While i wasn't doing anything like you plan to it would be easy to get a long micro USB from Anker as well and power it from a bag or attached to the bike somewhere.