The unit takes 3 hours to charge a pair of Hero4 batteries, providing energy for 5 hours of recording. I’ve used both Wasabi Power and Smatree GoPro batteries for a while now and found them to perform just as well as the official GoPro-branded ones.

Use this 1160mAh lithium-ion rechargeable battery as a spare or replacement for your HERO4 Black or HERO4 Silver camera. Here’s a roundup of some options for spare batteries and battery chargers for the GoPro HERO4 Silver and Black editions. But there are also third-party options made by other manufacturers that are much less expensive, and some have extra features included. Our compatability reference is shown for the component ie LCD BacPac NOT neccessarily the Backdoors supplied with the pack.Wherever possible we have tried to highlight housing compatability issues, but if you have any queries please contact us. This lithium-ion rechargeable battery allows you to keep shooting and have spares ready for your GoPro HERO4 Black or HERO4 Silver camera. For just a little more than the bundle above, this one also includes two batteries, a 3-slot cradle, a USB cable, an AC wall charger adapter, and a DC (car) charger adapter. Wasabi Power is another of the aftermarket battery brands that I’ve had good experiences with, and I’ve been using their batteries for GoPros for several years.

Hahnel's DuoPal Extra Kit is an all-in-one mains-free battery charger and a power bank with a whopping 5200mAh capacity (three times that of an iPhone 5 battery), plus a Hahnel HL-GP401 battery for use with your Go Pro Hero4. It replaces the back door of the standard housing is rated to be waterproof down to 131 feet (40 meters). They also add some weight and protrude out the back, so if you’re using a housing you’ll want to use an extended back door (which is sometimes included, but can also be purchased separately).Even under ideal circumstances, using video modes that use the least power, the best you can hope for is under two hours for a fully charged battery in the GoPro HERO 4.

And now that the HERO 4 models are getting old, there’s a good chance that your old batteries are fading and need replacement. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). According to GoPro, a new and fully charged GoPro battery can last from 90 minutes to 140 minutes, depending on circumstances. They plug into the back of the camera and roughly double the battery life you’ll get out of the camera, give or take. Like the other extended batteries, it clips onto the back, but like the Brunton, it replaces the whole back–you don’t need a separate extended back door as you do with GoPro’s own BacPac battery.

Those four won’t cover every country in the world, but it will get you going in many of the common places. Even adding an extended battery might bring you up to around three hours, but it also means adding weight and bulk. And if 6 hours isn’t enough, they also make larger versions that apparently provide up to 12 and 24 hours of continuous recording.

And if your phone or gadget run out of juice while you're on the go, then the DuoPal can be used as a power bank - powering them directly.These small and tough cameras now go where traditional cameras could rarely go - on skateboards, on skis, underwater and even into space. Extra or Replacement Battery: Use it as a spare or replacement battery for your GoPro to stay charged on.