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UA-5 battery question
« on: August 14, 2003, 12:03:19 AM »
i'm lookin at investing in a UA-5, and i know coresound sells ready to go portable sets with 6 or 8hr batts... but i was lookin around to see if i could get a better deal, by building my own battery.  the UA-5 runs on 9vdc, and i found some NI-MH batteries that are 9.6vdc.  i didn't think that .6 of a volt would be a problem, and i asked some friends here, and they didn't think so either, but you know, neither them nor i are the cream of the crop, and i thought what better of a place to ask than here...  so if anyone thinks this would work, or not, please let me know.. thanks.
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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2003, 12:08:18 AM »
I use 9.6 with no problems.  I think there is a link to directions for building a cable in the archive section.  If not, let me know and I can build you one.

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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2003, 12:10:14 AM »
cool thanks man.
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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2003, 08:49:03 AM »
As Kevin says, check the Archival Section for how to build a 9.6v RC battery.  And don't sweat the extra voltage - if you check the wallwart that comes with the UA5, it actually puts out 12+ volts!!
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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2003, 12:21:21 PM »
You can get roughly 6.5 hours of continual usage with phantom power turned on by using a 3000mAh battery found at batteryspace.com

Make the 2 battery cable and you can get 13 or so hours.

The battery runs about $30 and includes a 15-hour charger.
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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2003, 12:23:57 PM »
You can get roughly 6.5 hours of continual usage with phantom power turned on by using a 3000mAh battery found at batteryspace.com

Make the 2 battery cable and you can get 13 or so hours.

The battery runs about $30 and includes a 15-hour charger.

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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2003, 12:28:26 PM »
That's the twicket!
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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2003, 01:08:07 PM »
Don't forget that you can do the digi-mod yourself too. That info is in the archive.
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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2003, 02:47:17 PM »
yea i've been lookin at the digi mod, but i'm gonna be using it primarily for laptop, so it wouldn't do me any good...
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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2003, 02:58:40 PM »
found a dead link to the UA-5 powering.. so yea..
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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2003, 03:24:15 PM »
found a dead link to the UA-5 powering.. so yea..

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Re:UA-5 battery question
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2003, 07:36:27 PM »
yeh go with the 3000mAH from battery space.  I had a second 1700mAH on made for me at Batteries Plus about 3 days before I found this place.  Oh well.  I got about 4 1/2 hours w/o phantom power on the UA-5 w/ that battery... havent pushed it to capacity now that I am using the phantom power.

 

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