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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Quickie => Topic started by: aragorn723 on February 17, 2014, 04:33:49 PM

Title: Quickie idle battery drain
Post by: aragorn723 on February 17, 2014, 04:33:49 PM

Hi, how much does the Quickie drain the batteries if you leave the power switch on for maybe an hour or so?  I have done this a couple of times (with the sources and amp off) and wondered whether it would drain just the 9v batteries or both?  Does this significantly decrease battery life?  Thanks,

Dave

Title: Re: Quickie idle battery drain
Post by: Paul Birkeland on February 17, 2014, 05:20:54 PM

If you leave the power switch on, yes, the batteries drain.

You will get roughly 100 hours from each set, so leaving the preamp on for an hour will deplete 1.0% of the life of that set of batteries (D-cells and 9V's).

-PB

Title: Re: Quickie idle battery drain
Post by: Paul Birkeland on February 17, 2014, 06:21:09 PM

Quote from: Paul Joppa on February 17, 2014, 05:35:30 PM

That's 1% of course - I think PB made a typo...

I added a decimal point ;)

Title: Re: Quickie idle battery drain
Post by: aragorn723 on February 18, 2014, 12:10:12 AM

Thanks!