Using the alkaline battery with a resistor has fallen from favor. The only
mod I know of now is silver oxide battery and diode.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Ernens <fgernens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Batteries for OM1 etc
> John Hermanson wrote
>
> > Alkaline can be as bad as its voltage is constantly dropping as you use
it.
> > This makes the needle fall in the finder causing overexposure.
>
> Does the alkaline battery mod. which is commonly done fix this (i.e.,
> with a voltage regulator) or does it simply drop the voltage with a
> resistor? A technician I spoke to here offered to do it the second
> way, saying he got the instructions from the Internet. He seemed to
> be referring to Technet, but not being a subscriber I can't
> check. I can think of at least two other ways to botch this job: a
> single alkaline not having enough voltage to run the regulator IC,
> and a zener circuit drawing too much current and running the cell
> down.
>
> I still have 3 mercuries in the drawer here. To quote Daffy Duck,
> "Mine! mine! all mine!".
>
>
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