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
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> 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
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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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