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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Cameron" data-source="post: 11934" data-attributes="member: 42">Hi guys. I was going to contact Audio Technica about this issue but they don&#039;t seem to have support contact other than sending in the device (which is what probably needs to happen). The local theater company here has 18 channels of AT wireless packs with micro boom headsets. One pack is draining the battery faster than the others by a good margin. I did a comparison between it and one of the others. I popped a set of band new ProCell batteries into both, set the transmitter power to high and set the sensitivity to 0dB on both with headsets connected. Then I set a timer and let them sit on my desk all day. The suspect pack&#039;s Low Batt indicator come on at 5H 52M. The &quot;control&quot; pack didn&#039;t kick off it&#039;s low battery indicator until 8H 15M. Pretty big discrepancy. Now specs indicate that you get 6 hours of battery life in &quot;High&quot; transmitter power mode. With the mics just picking up background noise, I&#039;d expect them to go beyond the 6 hour mark since there not amplifying much relative to use in a live performance. The suspect pack is lucky to hold out for an entire 3 hour musical I&#039;m told by the producers. I&#039;m curious if anyone has run into this issue before. I don&#039;t expect to be able to fix it myself, but it&#039;s an odd issue I&#039;ve never run into. Seems like there&#039;s a component that sinking more current than it should. But that pack performs normally otherwise.Thanks for any insight. For reference the AT transmitter model is ATW-310b.Greg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Cameron, post: 11934, member: 42"] Hi guys. I was going to contact Audio Technica about this issue but they don't seem to have support contact other than sending in the device (which is what probably needs to happen). The local theater company here has 18 channels of AT wireless packs with micro boom headsets. One pack is draining the battery faster than the others by a good margin. I did a comparison between it and one of the others. I popped a set of band new ProCell batteries into both, set the transmitter power to high and set the sensitivity to 0dB on both with headsets connected. Then I set a timer and let them sit on my desk all day. The suspect pack's Low Batt indicator come on at 5H 52M. The "control" pack didn't kick off it's low battery indicator until 8H 15M. Pretty big discrepancy. Now specs indicate that you get 6 hours of battery life in "High" transmitter power mode. With the mics just picking up background noise, I'd expect them to go beyond the 6 hour mark since there not amplifying much relative to use in a live performance. The suspect pack is lucky to hold out for an entire 3 hour musical I'm told by the producers. I'm curious if anyone has run into this issue before. I don't expect to be able to fix it myself, but it's an odd issue I've never run into. Seems like there's a component that sinking more current than it should. But that pack performs normally otherwise. Thanks for any insight. For reference the AT transmitter model is ATW-310b. Greg [/QUOTE]

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