Same happened to me on my 722 a few weeks back. Battery was reading
"full" at the outset =96 a large lithium ion version that usually runs =
for around 6 hours. Drained in 20 minutes but HD and CF contained all
the info recorded to the time of the power failure. Unfortunately,
didn't think to bring a backup so lost half of a decent dawn chorus.
Does anyone have any idea(s) wha's happening?
Bernie
On May 17, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Dan Dugan wrote:
> > I had a rather unfortunate incident this AM with my Sound Devices
> 702
> > and wondered if anyone here has experienced anything like this. I
> was
> > out recording for an hour or so until the battery started to go. It
> > shut down as usual and I came in to listen/recharge. After
> powering it
> > up it showed no audio files at all. I checked it from a card
> reader on
> > the PC and got the same, and also noticed that all of the system
> > folders had been recreated at the time it was powered up. The amount
> > of space used and available is the same as it was before this.
> >
> > I ran the CF repair utility on the 702 and it recovered about 10
> files
>
> Were any of them from the session where it died?
>
> I had my first power-fail Sound Devices experience a couple of weeks
> ago. I was recording all channels to hard drive on a 744 with a
> battery that failed. After about twenty minutes I started getting
> warning beeps in the headphones, and in a couple of minutes it was
> lights out.
>
> I'm pleased to report that my files were there on the drive.
>
> -Dan Dugan
>
>
>
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