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Re: Olympus announces LS-100 field recorder

Subject: Re: Olympus announces LS-100 field recorder
From: "Raimund" animalsounds
Date: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:23 am ((PST))
oryoki2000

> > The LS-100 comes with a tiny 3.7V/925mAh Li-ion battery...
>
> Fortunately, there are alternative batteries with 3.7V, 1400 mAh that cla=
im to be compatible with the Olympus LI-50B provided with the LS-100 record=
er.  That's 50% more power in the same size package.  Recorder run time whe=
n providing phantom power should increase from 2.25 hours to better than 3 =
hours.
>
> Price through Amazon.com of the 1400 mAh battery is about $6 delivered.
>
> I also see 3.7V rechargeable batteries with 1800 and 2100 mAh that claim =
to be compatible with the Olympus LI-50B.  Prices are considerably higher.
>

That's great. Thanks for the hint.

In the mean time I also measured the noise floor of the LS-100 (3.5mm) "Ext=
ernal Mic" input (gain set to "Hi" and Plug-in Power switched off). The res=
ults are quite poor at -114 dBu(A).

Regards,
Raimund










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