How do I add P48 to my Ward Beck channel strips?

I thought I had covered everything but alas, I missed this one!!! I bought two channels (m460), a 2 unit rack to put them in and happened upon a w625b power supply from a desk.  So I bought the w625b  power supply and had some connectors wired up for 25+- and common and 110v.  Now I am wondering should I buy an external P48 to add a connector onto the back of the racked pair or ??? I use mostly tube mics with power supplies anyway so my one FET I could run through my digidesign for p48 but my frontend was going to allow for my signals to enter protools through spdif.  Any easy ideas or am I just being lazy?

you could Y cord it so it is plugged into  PT  for phantom
but take the wb output for audio

I thought that might work.  I am cheap so this may be my fix.  Thanks for your help.

Problem with doing that is that it could screw up the loading on the mic.
Me, I'd just use an external P48 supply. I have a 4-channel Audio-Technica box that I use when I want to connect P48 condensers to my tube preamps.

Dave has  the right idea. Much like I had suggested to you in your other thread on the topic.


http://www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=31050.msg376961#msg376961

Sure you can try the easy way first , which may not be the right way
if you but an external supply be sure it actually puts out 48v
some don't

okgb said:

Sure you can try the easy way first , which may not be the right way
if you but an external supply be sure it actually puts out 48v
some don't

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true but IIRC the phantom spec is such that  a mic that requires phantom will work  if the phantom power is as low as +44V

yeah it's one those things we could use a pcb for
[ i haven't learned to use any of those programs yet ]

Some mic's can take a range fro 12 -48 [ not even T powered ]
and some of the battery powered supplies only put 18v [ AKG ]

a smater electronic friend mentioed the 3 pin regulators as
oscilating sometimes and recomended a " more discrete " version
but i'm not smater enough to design one