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June 13th, 2013, 07:59 AM
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keeping track of batteries
i have a variety of cameras, audio recorders, monitors, mini-lights, etc - and they all have their own batteries and battery chargers - and some look quite similar.
so I took some of the wife's nail polish and put dots of the same color on the ones that went together. works great - wish I had done it year's ago! YOU'RE WELCOME! |
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June 13th, 2013, 09:25 AM
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Re: keeping track of batteries
I do a very similar thing with a set of paint pens from the local craft store. The paint is much more durable than a label. I also number the batteries so I can rotate them through and keep the number of cycles as even as possible.
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June 13th, 2013, 11:14 AM
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Re: keeping track of batteries
I label the transformer power supplies. I have so many of those little black boxes its ridiculous. Plugging the wrong one into a piece of gear can damage it. Over fifteen years ago I blew up a 20 year old Radio Shack mixer. Many of you other dinosaurs may have even seen the model, they made millions of them. A black thing with four channels, all RCA. Battery power or plug in. I lost the transformer so I plugged in "something that fit". About twenty minutes later it actually went BANG, I jumped, and smoke came out of it. Quite comical! I have joked a lot about gear blowing up, that piece really did. I had some good history with cheap little mixer.
And yes, I knew better, even then, but it was from Radio Shack. Lesson learned. Read those tiny specs, they matter. Steve
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June 13th, 2013, 12:52 PM
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Re: keeping track of batteries
Steven,
f it's the one I'm thinking about I still have it and believe it or not, it still works or at least did the last time I played with it about 5 years ago. I found it cleaning out some stuff in my garage and I think I left it there. hmm, maybe I'll dig it out and sell it on the big auction site. I might be able to sell it for a dollar more than what it would cost to mail it. Naw, probably not. BTW, I do have the transformer...I think. :-0
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June 13th, 2013, 01:07 PM
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Re: keeping track of batteries
It is priceless Don!
Once upon a time I needed to cut a sound track for a slide show. I had a audio cassette player with a broken headphone jack. I took it apart, cut the speaker wires, and soldered RCA jacks to them. Ran them into the RS mixer. A sound track was born! Line level, mic level, speaker level, what the hell did that mean? The sound track was played before 300 people from a fortune 500 company. Steve
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June 13th, 2013, 02:38 PM
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Re: keeping track of batteries
You know what they say about the mother of invention! ;-)
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