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Frontier Lab's BAR-V2
Product Details
The BAR-V2 is the latest lineup of our BARs with the same high quality recording capabilties but even more compact and lightweight. This is a recorder that can be packed, stacked and taken anywhere.
The BAR-V2 is a compact, lightweight bioacoustic recorder and a no-compromise successor to the BAR-LT, with GPS sync, flexible scheduling, and the same high-quality recordings as all our other recorders for consistent data across studies.
What's in the box
2 x microphone
1 x webbing strap
Adonised aluminium backing plate (attached)
Battery removal tool
Tube of 5 x reusable dessicant inserts
Quick start guide
*Batteries sold separately - 1 battery gives approximately 100 hours of recording time*
Tech Specs
Dimensions
- Height: 4cm, Width: 9cm, Depth: 9.5cm.
- Weight: 360g (including lithium battery pack and microphones).
- Rugged, waterproof, lockable, camouflaged enclosure made from tough UV resistant plastic.
- Compact, stackable design allowing for easy transport.
- Spiked base grips to trees and locks units together.
- Comes with a mounting plate and strap allowing it to be easily mounted to a tree or star picket.
- Built-in silica gel desiccant bucket and holder ensures any condensation is absorbed before it can affect the device.
- 1 x SD card slot for cards up to 1TB.
- Supports 16-bit WAV and FLAC (lossless compression) recording at sample rates from 8kHz to 96kHz.
- Fully adjustable gain in 1dB increments up to 60dB.
- Supports multiple sample rates: 8kHz, 16kHz, 22.05kHz, 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 96kHz (with corresponding anti-aliasing filters).
- Built-in GPS automatically time-syncs and GEO-stamps your recordings.
- GPS time-syncing enables 3D localization of animal calls, allowing for precise tracking of an animal's location when recorders are used in an array.
- Comes with scheduler software to program complex sampling schedules, including sunrise/sunset based recordings, different recordings on different days and waking up at a future date.
- Two highly sensitive, low noise omnidirectional microphones.
- Internal microphone memory chip tracks microphone age over time.
- Built-in filters eliminate the need for multiple microphones for different recording environments.
- Options include low frequency, standard, and 1kHz high-pass filters for optimal recording.
- Recommend using rechargeable 18650 lithium batteries to give 600 hours + of recording time; can also use 4 x alkaline batteries.
- Compatible with new battery system (sold separately) which can charge 5 lithium packs simultaneously.