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Title: How can I give my Korg MR-1 extra battey life?
Post by: Argitoth on January 18, 2008, 04:13:25 PM

How can I give my Korg MR-1 extra battey life? Please help! BTW, I have $$$.  :laugh:

Title: Re: How can I give my Korg MR-1 extra battey life?
Post by: edtyre on January 18, 2008, 04:20:06 PM

Search is your friend  8)

Look here for the first of a few Korg MR-1 threads
http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,80529.0.html


Myself and other Korg users have this external battery pack. Powers the MR-1 for 8-9 hours
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Qtek-9100-High-Capacity-External-Battery-5400-mAh_W0QQitemZ160077305401QQihZ006QQcategoryZ48674QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

Title: Re: How can I give my Korg MR-1 extra battey life?
Post by: Nick's Picks on January 18, 2008, 05:38:20 PM

nice little battery!
I used a power runner pr2e with excellent results.

Title: Re: How can I give my Korg MR-1 extra battey life?
Post by: Argitoth on January 18, 2008, 05:49:07 PM

this thing?: http://laptopsforless.stores.yahoo.net/pr2powrunmod.html

Edit: There's no 5v switch. Do you run it at 4.5 or 6? How long does it last?

edit: this?: http://laptopsforless.stores.yahoo.net/prunbaforpod.html

edit: I'm going to order this thing: http://store.l-f-l.com/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?pg=prod&ref=UP220 is that ok? ;D

Title: Re: How can I give my Korg MR-1 extra battey life?
Post by: guysonic on January 19, 2008, 07:09:19 AM

When doing a tech review on MR-1 http://www.sonicstudios.com/mr-1revw.htm#power (http://www.sonicstudios.com/mr-1revw.htm#power) I noted the external input power is 5 volts, just like Microtrack deck, but at over 2-times power. 

So I tried the regulated sleds meant for Microtrack, but with exact MR-1 power plug instead of MT miniUSB.  Found these sleds also work flawlessly to handle the MR-1 for up to 25 hours continuous running time.  Microtrack models shown, and same $ for MR-1 versions on chart at: www.sonicstudios.com/batsys98.htm#chrt (http://www.sonicstudios.com/batsys98.htm#chrt)

While I failed to test this on loaned MR-1, to maybe get 2+ hours suggest really cheap Energizer 'Energi-to-Go' (USB/5-volt versions) found to pack out a lot of 5 volt power on regular alkaline AA only if left connected and working continuously until exhausted. 

At that point you're seamlessly back running on the internal MR-1 battery until loading another 2 AA into the Energizer for again maybe another couple of hours.