Hi all,
Trying to absorb some of this battery info ??? ??? Wow, those eco's are pricey!! Would something like this work:
http://www.batteryspace.com/product.asp?0=256&1=290&3=182
The specs match up, and they're light, but what kinda time would I expect to get from them?? And it looks like one of the xenotronix nihm chargers would also be compatible??
So tell me less than 1/2 the price of an eco, could it be true?
+T for the help,
rePat
you can always build it yourself. I built a 6V 7ah SLA to power my M1 using Powersonic parts for less than HALF the price of a similar ECO-Charge system
PM me...I have a 6 volt system, with charger I am looking to get rid of.
Daryan
i believe it requires 12v
Looking at the link, I would say those batteries are not high enough in capacity to be worth much. I now run my mini-me off of 4 6v 4000mah nimh batteries, and I get about 4-6 hours run time off of each. I have two wired in parallel so that I can run two batteries, switch batteries mid set, etc without causing a power interruption. I would look for higher amh batteries on the same site, or else look into sla batteries. Why not power it via the firewire?
Daryan
Hey - I was just looking for the power consumption stats on that thing and they are nowhere to be found. But I did find that the power supply it comes with is a 12V 1A so you know you probably don't need more than than 600mA because they'll always over spec the AC supply.
I wouldn't be surprised if it run fine on a 9.6 volt pack but you'd want to try it out before you buy. To be save but you could grab a 12 volt or even two 6 volt batteries. No need to lug around SLAs with that kind of low power consumption. Lemme look at that Battery Space site - the searches are kinda sloppy there.
Here http://www.batteryspace.com/product.asp?3=172
$36 with a charger for a 4000mAh 12 volt. That'll get you at least 6 hours of run time and you might even get away with using one of the connectors they throw in! Shit, that's such a good deal I'm wishing I had something that took 12 volts! :yack:
david
Quote from: dklein on September 12, 2003, 01:20:08 PM
Here http://www.batteryspace.com/product.asp?3=172
$36 with a charger for a 4000mAh 12 volt. That'll get you at least 6 hours of run time and you might even get away with using one of the connectors they throw in! Shit, that's such a good deal I'm wishing I had something that took 12 volts! :yack:
david
$36 Wow, whatta deal. +T to everyone that chimed in. That looks like the ticket. It
can be powered by the Firewire bus, but only by 6-pin cable, and my lappy has only a 4-pin port. I think as a backup, I will get a PCMCIA Firewire card. My concern then will be how it affects the battery life on the lappy. Which btw is a Compaq Presario X1000, P4-M 1.4Ghz Centrino, that should have plenty of battery time.
rePat :thinking:
i think wes told me that a pcmcia firewire card does not supply power through the 6 pin port or that for whatever reason that solution does not work with his set up...so i'd check before you went and got the pcmcia card.
yeah.. thats right. the pcmcia card doesn't cut it.. don't know why. i've never seen a laptop with a built in 6 pin port. they all have 4 pin. m-audio needs to get their shit together.
Every Mac has a 6 pin firewire port. PC companies need to wake up and put them on there, it's not like they take up a lot of room...