Solstace

Big issue I've encountered with True 1 is that the yellow latch comes off the connector very easily - non-latching AC inputs are never a good idea no matter how much tape and velcro a harried tech applies to them. Interestingly it's the inline connectors that suffer rather than the chassis/surface-mount units on the speakers themselves. Spent more time and money replacing broken connectors this last month or so (only had them 6-9 months with a set of 4x dB Ingenia IG1T's) than in the whole of the previous year with the 8xEV ZLX12's, 4x QSC K8's, 20x dB T8 and 4 x S30 boxes, all in heavy use with their IEC or blue/gray Powercon connectors. Yuck.

Hmm - will have to put this on hold for a while as more urgent (and important) things need dealing with first. I'll keep y'all posted. Here's where I got so far: From having ripped the failed unit apart (out of frustration for the week that's been, if nothing else) - it's not a trivial swap to replace the cells. These are industrial AA cells with some extra bits soldered on, some kind of thermal cutout and extra sense terminal I think, with a plastic moulding around the lot. So I think I can say that just popping out and dropping any old high-street AA NIMH won't work. Still doable for us Pro's perhaps, but whether the outcome is worth the expenditure... I also know ('coz I tried) that without the sense terminal working, 2 x conventional AA NIMH cells won't be charged by leaving the mic in the charging cradles. So at least I also know that if anyone drops a mic in the cradle with alkaline AA's then nothing will go "BANG" Meanwhile I think I'll just order a replacement (they're only a 6-month warranty anyways according to our supplier) and deal with the more advanced hackery and actual phone-calls later... C.

Hi everyone Thought I'd ask here first since I don't necessarily want us to be the first to try something like this... Last year we bought a full set of BA2015's for our EW100 G3 sets. I didn't mind paying a little extra as I thought the charging control mechanisms built-in to the BA2015 packs would maintain a longer useful life. Predictably, less than a year on from purchase and deployment I've just got word of the first "live" failure of one of these packs. Showed green light when the mic was in the charger, full 3-bars when turned on, and died about 30mins into the gig. On the one hand, I could send the dud back for warranty replacement, but it got me thinking... has anyone had success with: 1) Using the L2015 base-station chargers to charge standard NIMH AA's in the mics 2) Swapping out the cells in the BA2015 packs with standard NIMH cells? Boss is suggesting calling Sennheiser. Having no desire to sit through yet another semi-automated call-handling system, I'm guessing that the first word of the response will begin with "N" and end with "O". And it won't be "Nando". :) So - anyone done any hacking on these?