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Re: [OM] winder mystery

Subject: Re: [OM] winder mystery
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 08:09:40 -0400
Try the camera set up with the remote setup attached, 1 frame every 2
seconds.  Does it fail in the same way?  Switch winders to other bodies.
Test again.

John  Hermanson
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From: <HI100@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] winder mystery


| garyetx@xxxxxxxx writes:
|
| << Any suggestions?  Any ideas on troubleshooting? I'm stumped. >>
|
| Check the battery holders, the pop rivets making contact to the strips of
| metal often becomes erratic with age and make intermittent contact. They
look
| fine but don't check out with a voltmeter and batteries installed. You can
| very carefully squeeze them with a pair of vice-grips and suitable metal
| pins/posts. I solder mine but it is hard to clean the nickel so you can
| solder reliably and if you overheat the holder will melt and make it
worse.
|
| The on/off/sequence switch also sometimes gets erratic from corrrosion
even
| if there are no signs of leaks. Seems less likely given it worked to start
| with.
|
|                   Regards,
|                  Tim Hughes
|                 >>Hi100@xxxxxxx<<
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