Update - that's three 8 GB cards with four channels of phantom power turned on and 96/24 recording settings. Now, anyone want almost six hours of traffic recording outside our flat?
The battery was still providing power when I terminated the session just now, so not bad going at all. About five and a half hours in all from a fully charged unit. Regards, On 17 Apr 2011, at 22:45, John Leonard wrote: > Folks, > > I'm in the middle of doing some tests on battery-powering the Tascam DR-680, > having been pretty shocked by how little time a set of Duracell Ultra AAs > lasted (about an hour and a half) and am having pretty good results with the > badge-engineered Tekkeon unit, which is sometimes available in the UK as the > Prestigio Power Bank 501. I set it up to record four tracks at 96/24 with an > SPS-200-SB and just left it running. So far I've filled two 8 GB cards > (that's three hours, fifty minutes) and it's still chugging along quite > happily, with one light down on its battery charge indicator. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
