Topic: Marantz PMD 671 in the field Part 3...

[spreadheadtom]

update on my problem. 

Spoke with Doug this morning and he could not find anything wrong with it. He has decided that the problem lies within the 9V wally battery.  He told me that the unit needs at least 12V to power the phantom power and as the voltage started dropping on the 9V this was causing the levels to slowly fade away.  He recommended me using at least a 12V as an external source and using either Energizer or Duracell for the internals.

is anyone running a 9V wal-mart battery besides me?

[sygdwm]

is anyone running a 9V wal-mart battery besides me?

: raises hand :

me too. uh oh.

[spreadheadtom]

is anyone running a 9V wal-mart battery besides me?

: raises hand :

have you had any problems with it? 

  At Mphis panic I tried 3 different 9V to no avail.  --  only had the problem occur one time before and that was towards the end of the night of the festival.  So it makes since that the battery was draining and that's why I lost power.


I'm gonna start running internals only.

[spreadheadtom]

is anyone running a 9V wal-mart battery besides me?

: raises hand :

have you had any problems with it? 

no tommy, not a one.  I've used four different ones too.  I'm looking through the user manual trying to find if there is an acceptable voltage range listed but I can't find one.

Doug was pretty convinced that this was the problem.  It may be the 414's causing it (they are twice as hungry as any other)

[spreadheadtom]

is anyone running a 9V wal-mart battery besides me?

: raises hand :

have you had any problems with it? 

no tommy, not a one.  I've used four different ones too.  I'm looking through the user manual trying to find if there is an acceptable voltage range listed but I can't find one.

Doug was pretty convinced that this was the problem.  It may be the 414's causing it (they are twice as hungry as any other)

I agree, it's probably not the 671.  I think you're the only one consisitently running LD mics into a 671 at the moment so you're definitely acting as guinea pig for the rest of us in that regard.
+t for your troubles bud.  start stocking up on internals I guess.

+T backatcha

I'm gonna use Drew's/Trey's ACM this weekend and really want to try the 9V with theirs just to see. 

[sygdwm]

the only time i have run 9v was at wsp in st louis. everything was fine except i forgot to record the encore. no batt issues.

[nottingham]

I've ran the wally 9 volt several times with no problem however, I have switched to a 12 volt from battery geeks after reading this tread. My question is that using the sled with Nimh only provides 9.6 volts is this correct?

[Chuck]

I use external AA NiMh battery packs, a modified version of the internal sled with AA NiMh and on occasion a 12v SLA. I haven't used the 9v DVD batteries, as I'm a bit leary of using them after hearing things like this. They did work well with the Mini-Me, when I had that, though.

[leehookem]

I've ran the wally 9 volt several times with no problem however, I have switched to a 12 volt from battery geeks after reading this tread. My question is that using the sled with Nimh only provides 9.6 volts is this correct?

correct

[sygdwm]

i am going back to AA's. anyone need 2 brand new 9v's?

[spreadheadtom]

anyone need 2 brand new 9v's?

Kevin does.

[twoodruff]

i am going back to AA's. anyone need 2 brand new 9v's?

are there any other external options, as in one with 15 volts output with enough juice to power that thing

[sygdwm]

i bet a "laptop" battery(valence) like i used for the vaio would work.

are there any other external options, as in one with 15 volts output with enough juice to power that thing

[JasonSobel]

i am going back to AA's. anyone need 2 brand new 9v's?

are there any other external options, as in one with 15 volts output with enough juice to power that thing

there's a whole bunch of L-ion battery packs with 14.8 volts...
http://www.batteryspace.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=898
don't know if they'll work for sure, but I'd say there's a good chance.

[sygdwm]

thanks for the link jason. t