The diode is supposed to be there (it is in EVERY 2/2N). It prevents the
circuit from blowing out if you insert the batteries backwards.
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Dirk and Carla Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 10:17 PM
Subject: [OM] OM-2n trouble solved!
> OK, I think I fixed this camera. At least the shutter speed wierdness.
When
> I took the shutter speed ring off, and then the gear/pulley thing, I
didn't
> put it back exactly on the same place on the switch at the bottom of the
> camera. It just so happens that when you put it too far one way, such that
> the switch gear engages at the wrong place on the big pulley/gear, the
high
> speeds don't work! I put it back and they all work now, including bulb. I
> checked the 1/60th speed on a TV screen and it appears to be OK.
>
> Something else that was strange about this camera was a diode that someone
> had installed between the negative battery terminal and the chassis via
one
> of the mounting screws for the battery holder. I figured that this was not
> Olympus oem, so I removed it. Why would someone do that? was this to
> prevent the electronics from blowing if the battery were installed
> backwards?
>
>
> Be seeing you.
>
> Dirk Wright
>
>
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