At 10:24 PM -0400 7/3/09, Richard L. Hess wrote:
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>Say you get six hours out of a big Blue Shape, so two of those would
>carry you through a 12 hour recording, with the external battery
>connected at the midpoint and at the end if you need to. Carrying two
>batteries for the external pack plus six rear-mount Li-ion Blueshapes
>at an average of one pound each (the Blueshapes are 0.67 pound) means
>that you should have enough power for three nights of recording in
>eight pounds--not 45. You do need to do one change overnight.

I'm absent. I leave for it for 2-3 days, sometimes to record only
during the night and other times continuously.

Lighter would be great but it needs to be one, big set of cells. I
tried parallel wiring of NiMH packs and I couldn't get them to fully
and reliably charge. Correct, power switch-over with the new
firmware is to be avoided. My recorder and 4 mics all fit in a
backpack http://tinyurl.com/mtpdod so if I want to carry everything
in one trip, I do have to carry the battery by hand. Rob D.



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