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Re: [OM] om4ti pricing (battery eater?)

Subject: Re: [OM] om4ti pricing (battery eater?)
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:58:28 -0400
If the shutter button is shorting, then the display will always be on in the
finder because that is the only switch the release button actuivates (meter
relight switch).  Once the meter turns off, the drain should be the same no
matter where the shutter speed dial is set (4T/Ti from  5 to 10 microamps or
.005 to .010 milliamps.)  You need a sensitive meter set to the lowest scale
to read this accurately.
Setting to mechanical B/60 will only keep the meter from turning on when the
release is pushed partway.

John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Shumaker <wayne@xxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] om4ti pricing (battery eater?)


> At 11:11 PM 10/4/99 +1000, you wrote:
> >I have a 4Ti which has a history of consuming batteries at an alarming
> >rate. Yesterday I took it to my local techie and he tested the current in
> >auto mode (at "idle") and it was too high. They are always drawing
> >current unless you switch the shutter ring to the red 60th or B setting
> >at which point it draws, in my case, .001 milliamps if I remember
> >correctly. Not enough to worry about anyway. Leave it anywhere else on
> >the shutter ring and dead batteries are inevitable.
>
> Sounds like the shutter button has a short. When you slightly depress
> the shutter button, you activate the metering system and it pulls a lot
> more current than in idle mode. The test would be to let the camera sit
> for several minutes without touching the shutter release. This will
> give it time enough to for the meter display to go blank and return to
> idle mode, 7-9uA (.001mA). If the display never turns off, then the
> camera is not returning to idle mode.
>
> Wayne
>
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