Search This Blog

Showing posts with label IEM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IEM. Show all posts

Thursday 12 October 2017

#19 Takstar / Gear4Music WPM-200 Wireless Monitor System part 3: transmitter mods

And at long last(?), we've reached the point where we take a look at the transmitter end of this wireless monitoring system. Not a whole lot to see on the outside, really: power switch, power LED, channel select rotary switch (1 to 6) on the front, and the DC input barrel socket and the 1/4" stereo input jack socket on the back.


Thursday 5 October 2017

#17 Takstar / Gear4Music WPM-200 Wireless Monitor System part 1: receiver teardown / li-po upgrade

This "part one" will be dealing only with the WPM-200 receivers and the lithium-upgrade pertaining to them. The transmitters and subsequent mods will be dealt with at a later date.

Fine, i'll admit, i miiiiiiiight be ever so slightly guilty of the whole "if all you have is a hammer, everything around you looks like a nail" thing, what with these nifty little one-cell charger & protection boards, but hey - at least it kinda validates(?) my "stockpiling" of laptop and phone batteries along the years. Now, i finally have the excuse to put some of them to good use and all that...

During my UK eBay browsing sessions a month or two (or seven?) back, i happened to come across a few listings of faulty wireless monitor sets (transmitter & bodypack-receiver) from this British music gear retailer. A bit of googling later, revealed to be straight rebadges of Takstar WPM-200 sets - nope, they hadn't even bothered changing the model number. The one thing they might've customized, though, are the radio frequency ranges / channels (since there are different regulations on different continents, and so on).