I'll try a recording tonight and see how it works.
Your best bet is to set the gear up and time it. That is my plan when I receive mine.
I did and got just under 3.5 hours.
3.5 on high gain... On low you should get 20 hrs
I know this is about my old 9v Littlebox, but it only got 6 hours on the High Power setting. Well, on Low Power, it got 18 hours, so it really is realistic to get a LOT more recording time running on Low Power. It's not like I EVER noticed my recordings suffering from losing just a couple db of headroom or whatever you're losing when you do that. It certainly was never audible. And if it means you can get 3x the recording time, then I say its definitely worth it, wouldn't you?
And us Schoeps users running just caps>KCY>TB/LB, get so much recording time since the TB/LB is just powering our caps, and not bodies too. Even though I think Jon said before that the Schoeps caps on his preamps get OVER +48v powering, like they're supposed to. They get +50v or +55v or +60v I believe. I'm sure Jon can chime in and set the record straight, but I could've swore that Jon said before that the Schoeps caps running his preamps get above the regular +48v on High Power. But, I could definitely be wrong. I know that the Schoeps caps SHOULD get +60v if my memory is correct. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that my new Schoeps VMS02ib preamp will supply the caps with +60v?!?!?! Since it IS a Schoeps preamp and all, but I have ZERO data to back that up lol
If there is any way that I could check without ruining my Schoeps gear, please let me know, and when I get the VMS02ib in a couple days, I'll check and see how much voltage the caps are getting
Sorry if I kinda highjacked the thread. I honestly didn't mean to!!!