So could I have the circut changed "without" having to
replace the green LED with the red one,
Hypothetically.
Mark Lloyd
--- Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is about the OM-2s only. See the FAQ at:
>
>
http://brashear.phys.appstate.edu/lhawkins/photo/olympus.faq
>
> Look up entry "B30", which describes the
> differences. In a nutshell: all factory-shipped
> OM-2s's had a green "flash ready" LED, which for
> reasons unknown to mere mortals, was powered by the
> silver cells *in the camera*. This tended to drain
> the cells very quickly if you were someone who used
> flash a lot.
>
> Olympus techs offer an upgrade, whereby a circuit
> modification is made to cause the LED to get its
> power from the *flash* batteries instead, thus
> saving the silver cells. The green LED is replaced
> with a red LED to indicate that the modification has
> indeed been done (otherwise there'd be no easy way
> to tell, other than having your silver cells dying
> untimely deaths...).
>
> Unfortunately, this upgrade is not free, and is
> really economical only if you're already having the
> OM-2s serviced for some other reason (i.e., a CLA).
> I'm going to get the upgrade when I CLA my OM-2s.
>
> Garth
>
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