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Follow-up: Picked up a Powerex charger and batteries for our Senn EWs. Tested them in the old Shure SLX, and I don't know what their cutoff voltage is, but they run 5 hours without issue. The MH-C980 shows them taking 900 to 1100 mAh (love that feature of the charger!). So we bought chargers and...

@themuzicman: Good point on cost of the splitters. I hadn't looked closely at that. @macsound: Yes, and the 150' is a very conservative estimate as well. There's a good chance I can keep it under 100', but I'll do some walking to look for a better solution before even committing to that.

I'm planning a signal distribution setup for 20 receivers - currently a mix of SLX and EW-DX. My intent is to put two LPDA antennas overhead upstage with a 150' coax run to FOH. Coax will be selected for minimum signal loss (cost may enter into the equation at some point). If I were to use, say...

themusicman: Thanks for the battery, charger and battery management tips; I knew choices made here would make all the difference. I didn't expect anyone to actually do the math for me! Economically it's a no-brainer in my situation.@Jay: Point taken that it's the cutoff voltage if the...

My county school system performing arts center produces 8 three-night shows per semester and 4 community shows in summer. I'm about to place my third (or is it fourth?) $500 battery order of the year. I probably have a case for switching to rechargeables. We use Sennheiser EW-D and Shure SLX...

Anyone running Sennheiser's EW-D along with older systems? I want to start phasing out Shure SLX with EW-D and the budget says I can't do it all at once. I've been relying on Wireless Workbench to manage my 15 SLX units, but If I swap 5 SLX for EW-D I'm not sure how fit them in, what with the...

Made the switch for rehearsal tonight with zero issues. No audible evidence of clipping.Interesting to me that you mention dropouts. I've been wondering what intermod interference might sound like. The situation I inherited had some low-hanging fruit: In addition to randomly assigned radio...

I like the signal-to-noise angle. I may make the switch. Have two tech rehearsals this week. If all goes well I'll leave it for the recorded performance, then 6 (reduced capacity) live shows.

Having done mostly live music, I was recently given the opportunity to fill in running theater sound for a county school system arts center while they were between employees. They liked my work enough to give me a contract. This forum has been a great help in navigating RF management. (They had...