Yo William,
on Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:53:38 -0500 , you wrote:
>Is there an easy way
>to tell if the OM4 suffers from the battery drain?
Now, unless you have a fairly steady hand this may be a little tricky, but
it works for me:
First, you need a multimeter with a microamp-range. Take off the battery
compartment lid. Press one test wire tip on the upper side of the top
battery, the other against the metal of the camera bottom part. This will
switch on the camera's electronics, so as what you want to measure is
standby drain you will now have to hold the leads in place until it shuts
off (this is the tricky part, as each slip will force you to start over).
When the camera goes into standby a value of 20-25 microamps is normal for
an OM-4; if it is considerably higher it probably has the battery drain
problem. Of course, even an OM-4 that shows normal values will drain the
batteries much faster than a 1(n) or 2(n).
Hope this helps.
MtFbwy,
Volkhart
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