The OM-2N battery check light will blink (meaning weak
batteries) at 2.8v. Below 2.8v shutter will lock up. Lockup with good
batteries could be caused by any one of a half dozen other things.
Could be a dirty magnet, trigger switch, main switch.
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Manuel Viet wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a 2n that I don't use much (I prefer the 1md), and moreover it
> has the bad habit of locking up from time to time, needing a reset
> and a blank winding to save the unexposed frame (I'd say... once in
> 50 shot, but sometime 3 time in a row, and sometime after 100 blank
> shoot). Of course, this is a vicious circle, because I don't really
> appreciate it to fail on me, so I tend not to use it a lot because of
> that too, keeping it strictly as a rear cap and ultimate backup.
>
> What bothers me is that the led lights a beautiful steady red when
> asked, hence my question : what fails first, the batteries or the
> test ? My voltmeter says those epx76 are 1.56 V each, alone, outside
> the body. To my little knowledge, it doesn't sound too bad...
>
> I noticed the symptom is aggravated if I use the 2n on manual, and
> especially in manual at high speeds (1/500 ~ 1/1000). Is it
> carateristic of a failure of something else (the body was bought as
> BER in a shop for parts, but I thought I was lucky when it reseted
> all right on those batteries) ?
>
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