Topic: R9HR questions about battery use age and length.

[rastasean]

The Eneloops (or equivalent LSD NiMH like Imedion) are a good bet as long as you change them at lunch as mentioned. Or keep a charged pair in there as a safety backup to an external battery supply and you can probably run all week.  If its simply voice content and you are recording all day long, consider recording to MP3 instead of WAV. You will be generating massive amounts of data and should seriously consider how you'll handle that once the files are off-loaded from the SD cards.

No doubt. I would try mp3 320k for a day and see how the audio is.

Are you going to use any external mics? That would drain the battery since it MOST likely would need plug in power.

[steve4134]

Well after a  few days of testing it looks like i'm getting from 8-2 consistently recording with internal mics at 44.1.  I am not worried about filling up my 8 gig card and haven't even come close. I believe I will do the recommended swap batteries at lunch. I will try mp3 and see how it comes out. I fig if i come out with a 6 gig file and then flac it down to 3 ish  gigs then I can live with that

steve