I just found a ton of them in my box.
--Bob Whitmire
www.bobwhitmire.com
On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>
> You too? Don't even know who he/she is.
> Bill Pearce
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 9:46 PM
> Subject: [OM] Anybody else getting this stuff?
>
>
>> Don't know why 3 week old messages that I wrote to the list are now
>> being rejected by mcosby's full mailbox and returned to me rather
>> than
>> the list server. They're starting to come in droves.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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>>> Subject:
>>> [OM] Re: OM-4 battery problem
>>> From:
>>> Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date:
>>> Thu, 10 May 2007 07:33:41 -0400
>>> To:
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>>>
>>> Even if the OM-2n *seems* to like LR44 batteries you should
>>> change it
>>> back to silver oxide. The reason has to do with voltage levels
>>> of the
>>> different battery types as they discharge. The voltage level of
>>> alkaline batteries drops very fast as they discharge. The
>>> voltage level
>>> of silver oxide batteries stays almost constant until they are
>>> nearly
>>> exhausted. The OM auto exposure bodies are very sensitive to
>>> voltage
>>> level. While the alkaline battery may still be able to deliver a
>>> large
>>> current flow and it may still work well in a different device it
>>> will
>>> soon fail in an OM auto exposure body due to insufficient voltage.
>>>
>>> When I first got an OM-2s I thought there was a short circuit in the
>>> camera and I didn't use it for several years until after joining
>>> this
>>> list. Even if I didn't use the camera the batteries wouldn't
>>> power the
>>> camera anymore after just 4-6 weeks sitting in the closet. That's
>>> partially because the bodies after the 2n do not have a power
>>> switch.
>>> They're never really off and are always drawing a small current
>>> which
>>> the 2n does not do. Although the current draw is very small it
>>> manages
>>> to lower the voltage of an alkaline battery very quickly. Once I
>>> changed the 2s over to silver oxide batteries I began to get battery
>>> life of 6-9 months even with usage.
>>>
>>> Get rid of all batteries for OM's that are not silver oxide. Even a
>>> converted OM-1 should use silver oxide batteries. The constant
>>> voltage
>>> characteristic of the silver oxide battery was also a
>>> characteristic of
>>> mercury oxide batteries. They are used since they avoid the need
>>> for a
>>> voltage regulator.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> Lukasz Grabun wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 03 May 2007 23:41:39 +0200, Tom Scales
>>>> <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> LR44 = Bad :)
>>>>> You want 357 or SR44.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OM-2n seems to like LR44 and operates smoothly :-)
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I'll try to get SR44s but somehow would put some more
>>>> light into
>>>> the case, I'd be most grateful.
>>>>
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