[Dixielandjazz] Portable Battery Power

[Tom Duncan]

Russ Guarino answered my power query and confirmed that the unit I had found
was similar to the one that he used . . . . Thanks, Russ.


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From: Russ Guarino [mailto:russg at redshift.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 11:22 PM
To: tduncan at bellatlantic.net
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Portable Battery Power


Tom, 

Yes, this is the unit.  The one I got was 300 watt.  This has more power,
but cost the same as the one I bought. 


Russ Guarno, clarinet maven. 


Tom Duncan wrote: 


Some months ago there was a thread on portable, battery power supplies. I 
carefully saved one comment and neglected to save the posters name; so, if 
any of you have experience powering up for a gig where power is not 
available, please help. 

First, the comment on DJML was, 
         "We did not have electricity for the keyboard and amp, so I bought 
a "power pac" at Costco, which I now recommend to any band that does outdoor

work, not always close to electricity.  It's heavy, but a great accessory 
to power up mics   and electronic equipment.  One note, a guitarist on one 
gig discovered his old "tube" amp buzzed with this power source, but the 
fully "chipped" amps were OK. 


        My unit powered a five octave keyboard and large amp for 9 hours." 


That sounds like just the thing to power what I have . . . . Keyboard and 
Yorkville 100KW 12" 2-Channel Wedge Keyboard Amp and an ancient Traynor 
(Yorkville) Amp, probably same 100 KW, but the numbers are no longer legible

and two Shure mics. 


My nearest Costco was no help. They had one unit in a battered box that was 
an obvious return, but assured me many months ago that they would have in 
stock again. It has never reappeared :-) 


Here is a link to Costco's website and the "power pack" type unit. 


http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10037431
<http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10037431&whse=&topnav=&bro
w> &whse=&topnav=&brow 
se=&s=1 


I would very much appreciate if any of you that have used this type of unit 
can confirm that this is what was meant by "power pac" in the note above. 
It's not a huge investment, but I'd like to have it work when I turn it on 
:-) . 


Thanks, 


Tom Duncan 
201-836-6076 
www.doctordubious.com 
doctordubious at verizon.net 


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