I'm sure no one cares at this point but I just recorded my first and last show with the DR-70D.
Facts:
- current firmware
- card from approved media list (erase formatted prior to the show...tested for roughly 16 consecutive hours with no issues prior to the show.)
- battery that others have used successfully (and had plenty of juice when the recorder decided to stop recording)
- 2 channel, 24/44.1 with phantom on channels 1 & 2
-> recording just stopped after about 45 minutes...recorder powered off by itself while the battery was perfectly fine (recorder powered right back on after I discovered that it had turned off)
Fuck it. I don't have the patience for this shit. Anyone with more patience than me wants this thing, send me an offer. I'll throw in the battery, battery cable, a card, and a hard case.
That's VERY troublesome to hear
Especially after my good luck running new SD Cards/Batteries in front of my TV for MANY hours with both of my 70d's, though I haven't ran my newest 70d "live" yet
Bad USB cable?
I just had to replace one, due to very similar description.
Bad USB cable?
I just had to replace one, due to very similar description.
I've had one cable that wouldn't work also - seemed to work ok for data, but not power...
Another related gotcha is - some USB batteries want to be "on" when you turn on the DR-70D.
Otherwise the deck won't see the battery, and you won't get the "BUS POWER" message at startup - resulting in the deck being powered by internals...leading to shorter runtimes.
I'm guessing Maybe this happened? I HAVE to turn my USB Batteries ON before starting my 70d's
Are you 100% sure you had your USB battery ON and the BUS POWER option came on when you turned your 70d on
Because that would explain for the short runtime on AA batteries! Maybe when it stopped, you turned the USB battery ON and then it worked fine after that, correct? BUT, if you didn't have AA's in your 70d, and you were just running off of USB batteries[like I sometimes do], then it certainly wouldn't explain the AA internals theory I just had lol
Also, exactly what SD card are you using for your 70d
A "Write Timeout" error would've warned you what happened, so it couldn't be that, especially just running 24/44.1 on 2 channels, so I'm very concerned about your issues! Can you reproduce the issues at home possibly if you have the time? I would certainly want to find the problem, before I gave up completely! It really is a great deck, and has proven very reliable for me the 1.5 years Ive owned mine