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Author Topic: CAD Equitek 200 - Remove Batteries?  (Read 4390 times)

1DonM

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CAD Equitek 200 - Remove Batteries?
« on: July 10, 2005, 06:48:22 PM »

All:
I have a pair of CAD equitek 200's in my mic inventory - I bring them about for a variety of applications for a variety of reasons.   These things are big and heavy - I understand there are lithium batteries in the case - I've never run them without phantom power and was wondering if anyone ever took the time to remove the batteries without any subsequent problems - thanks in advance.

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j.hall

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Re: CAD Equitek 200 - Remove Batteries?
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2005, 04:17:31 PM »

i've used the E-100's quite a bit and can't recall ever having the batteries in them.

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1DonM

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Re: CAD Equitek 200 - Remove Batteries?
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2005, 03:28:54 AM »

J:
Yep - theze got 'em.  They're about the size of a nine volt, but these mics are heavy and I thought I'd remove them as I have never used them w/o 48v.

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Re: CAD Equitek 200 - Remove Batteries?
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2005, 07:37:25 AM »

give it a shot.....i know i never had batteries in the E-100's i used, but maybe the 200's are different.

i can't imagine them needing a battery when phantom power is present.
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Re: CAD Equitek 200 - Remove Batteries?
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2005, 07:08:15 PM »

You might want to post this on Harvey's forum, as I believe he had something to do with the original design of this mic.

I think the batteries are used in the circuit (even if it's phantom powered) to help with transient peaks or something like that.
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Re: CAD Equitek 200 - Remove Batteries?
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2005, 11:18:01 AM »

I have a Cad E-300 with the 2 9 volts in it. It says in the manual to leave them in as they keep the voltage consistant and buffered. I know there is a switch inside that you can change to use regular 9 volts instead of the lithium ones, but I am pretty sure you need them (batteries) in there for it to work at all.
But hey, that's for my E300... YMMV.
Chris
ps great sounding mic by the way!
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floodstage

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Re: CAD Equitek 200 - Remove Batteries?
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2005, 04:10:03 PM »

I opened my E-100 up for curiosity once, and there is a battery in there.  I didn't look to see what the voltage was but it did look just like a 9v.

Phantom power is used to recharge them by the way
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