MD: LiIon cell for MDMT831?
Hi. I just ordered my first Minidisc unit, a Sharp MT831! I'm quite excited! *calms down* Anyway, I have a question about it's included LiIon battery ... is it available from anywhere besides Sharp Japan? Reading about LiIon cells, it sounds as if they last a good thousand charge/discharge cycles, but I'd still like to have a source for a replacement just in case. Anything else I should watch for with the 831 by the way? I plan on carrying it in some sort of padded bag most of the time, taking as good care of it as I can given very frequent use, ... what's likely to go bad on it eventually? Buttons? Thanks, Chris - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: LiIon cell for MDMT831?
Hi. I just ordered my first Minidisc unit, a Sharp MT831! I'm quite excited! *calms down* Anyway, I have a question about it's included LiIon battery ... is it available from anywhere besides Sharp Japan? Well, you can certainly get them in the UK. I'm pretty sure every country that sells Sharp gear will also sell Sharp accessories, somewhere. Anything else I should watch for with the 831 by the way? I plan on carrying it in some sort of padded bag most of the time, taking as good care of it as I can given very frequent use, ... what's likely to go bad on it eventually? Buttons? Taking VERY good care of the Sharp831 is a VERY GOOD IDEA... the buttons on these units are brown-grey plastic covered in metallic silver paint and the paint flaked off mine (no, not totally, but almost all of the buttons had sizeable areas of the plastic showing from under the paint) in a matter of months (like, three months) - and I kept it in its felt bag all the time! Also the battery cover on mine managed to work itself loose over time and after that was never quite able to make a solid battery connection (the battery only makes contact when the cover is securely shut) Needless to say I took mine back - and in fact swapped it for a Sony MZR90 (which has a better atrac encoder for recording, but worse pretty-much-everything-else ... ). Just some things to watch out for. D - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: LiIon cell for MDMT831?
The 831 is great - rather user-friendly and sounds better than many MD portables. Ithink it's best not to leave your 831 standing on the 2 longer sides (the sides where the mic in, AC jack and line in are). If you do that, often the pickup doesn't stay where it and will drop down to the bottom of the jackscrew it travels on. That doesn't happen to every unit, and is not unique to Sharp, but is useful in preventing excessive skipping. On the battery, I think only Sharp supplies the kind of Li-ion that can be used inside the 831. They actually don't always last (capacity does decrease with charge/discharge cycles). Hyperjack charges $55 + shipping for a battery *ek!* :-) http://www.hyperjack.net/accessories.htm Enjoy! Leon on 3/13/01 9:25 AM, Chris Smart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just ordered my first Minidisc unit, a Sharp MT831! I'm quite excited! *calms down* Anyway, I have a question about it's included LiIon battery ... is it available from anywhere besides Sharp Japan? Reading about LiIon cells, it sounds as if they last a good thousand charge/discharge cycles, but I'd still like to have a source for a replacement just in case. Anything else I should watch for with the 831 by the way? I plan on carrying it in some sort of padded bag most of the time, taking as good care of it as I can given very frequent use, ... what's likely to go bad on it eventually? Buttons? Thanks, Chris - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: LiIon cell for MDMT831?
Thanks Leon for the suggestion and comments on the 831...Dave in the UK as well. Hope it gets here before the Jeff Beck show I have good seats for, in a small 2,-seat venue! *grin* Chris - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
