[access-uk] Re: Tascam US428 on battery?
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:03:16 -0000
Probably not as interesting as you think actually. If you are recording
outdoor musical events you may be able to use a small gnerator if there is
other gear that uses mains, a power invertor to run off a car battery,
otherwise you are back to dry cells and a little inventive wiring.
If you are mainly recording indoors then it would be worth doing a bit of
reconissance before you set up to find out where if any there may be a power
socket you could hook a long extension up to.
Sorry, it's just plain practical stuff no miracle solutions.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "goshawk" <Goshawk.158@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 12:46 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Tascam US428 on battery?
what type of portable power supply did you have in mind? sounds interesting.
Simon
At 10:41 AM 2/22/05, you wrote:
>I have the baby Tascam US-122 which is completely powered from USB 1.1 bus
>so I don't know the bigger model that well. However I would first find out
>exactly what power requirements it has first before doing anything. Not
>all
>line wart or wall wart supplies do DC power, most often they do but it is
>not universally the case and trying to put a DC current accross something
>that is expecting AC power will blow it up.
>
>Assuming you have a DC powered unit and you know what it's current draw is
>going to be you may be able to do some caclculations and wire up something
>that will do the job using batteries and the kind of parts you get from
>Maplin to create your DC voltage. However the real enemy of recording
>sessions is the way rechargeables tend to tail off quite quickly on
>discharge cycles. Obviously if batteries go flat on the Tascam you will
>loose your audio, this process would be hastened if using capacitor
>microphones phantom powered off your Tascam.
>
>Depending on how serious you are and whether you are going to be very far
>from power you might want to think about some kind of portable power supply
>for both laptop and Tascam unit.
>
>Regards.
>
>Tristram Llewellyn
>Sight and Sound Technology
>Technical Support
>www.sightandsound.co.uk
>
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>
>hello list,
>has anyone tried running a Tascam US428 audio interface from batteries? in
>theory this should be easy, as it runs from an external transformer which
>should be able to be substituted easily with a battery box supplying the
>correct voltage.
>what I am not sure of however, is the affect on both the unit and the
>laptop to which it would be connected when the batteries started going.
>I am using this setup as a portable audio work station, and would find it
>really handy when mains power is not available if the tascam could run on
>batteries as well as the laptop.
>
>Simon
>
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