I've seen some pitted contacts, lightly burned from arcing, but nothing
like this. As I recall, is the sync socket on studio power packs same
or very similar to an AC socket? Plug cord into camera, other end into
wall outlet, fire camera. SO simple a child would do it.
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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743
631-424-2121 | Olympus OM Service since 1977
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Tim Hughes wrote:
> John, Interesting find and picture. The energy stored in the trigger
> capacitor, in even the oldest of old high voltage flashes, is not
> nearly enough to do this sort of damage. I can only guess the bleed
> resistor to the main capacitor from the trigger capacitor in the
> flash shorted and he dumped in the full 50Joules or so?
>
> Tim Hughes
>
>
> --- John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> FYI, thought some of you may be interested. Here are 2 pics of an
>> OM-1 I just started for a customer in India. She bought it blind
>> through ebay...gulp. Flash safety switch is melted, don't know
>> what the main contacts look like yet.
>>
>> http://www.zuiko.com/index_003.htm
>>
>>
>>
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