John,
A local camera shop tried to sell me a 1.5v version of the 625 battery
over the weekend - you've no doubt seen it, same canister and polarity,
higher voltage. Their disclaimer was 'it should be alright'.
They're WRONG, I assume?
Steve
>
>Your looking at the never-mentioned or documented battery check
mechanism that
>was built into early OM-1s. As a rule I take all those wiper parts out
and
>chuck em. If that white wire is attached to one of those wipers,
unsolder the
>other end and dispose of properly.
>
>John
>
>Jay Maynard wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:44:08PM -0500, John Hermanson wrote:
>> > Early OM-1 production used a white battery wire. Some were black.
Later
>> > this became brown, right up to the very last 1N (sigh). The layout
of the
>> > meter board changed several times too. The wire in question is
probably
>> > the battery wire and should be soldered to the switch contact.
>>
>> My OM-1 must not be as early as I thought. The pressure plate says
October
>> 1974, and it's S/N 314xxx. It has a brown battery wire connected to
the
>> switch. The white wire in question goes to one side of the meter.
>>
>> Here's where I get lost: The meter has 3 terminals. One, a blue wire,
goes
>> straight into the meter body. The second, a yellow wire, goes to a
wiper
>> contact at the back of the camera, and the white wire goes to a wiper
on the
>> front of the camera. Now, I'm not used to a single meter movement
that has
>> three places to connect stuff. What's going on here?
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
>< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
>< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >
>
>
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >
|