This is "leakage" and is probably found inside one of the 4 ICs. THERE IS
NO FIX. Since they all left the factory this way, IF the problem was a bad
SMC, they woulda already done it.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Charlton" <c_charlton@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: RE: [OM] Silver oxide juice...
| I can live with 6 months, the batteries aren't that
| expensive, however I just checked out a link about
| battery drain and it states that it is caused by a
| short in a transistor or IC. As surface mounted
| transistors can be de-soldered and replaced by someone
| skilled at soldering (i.e. me) does anyone know which
| transistor is the one that goes faulty? Surface
| mounted transistors are easy to buy, so I would
| consider having a go.
|
|
|
| --- Chip Stratton <cstrat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Chris -
| >
| > That is on the high side, and the same as my OM4.
| > That rate would completely
| > drain a normal 357 in something like 290 days, but
| > since proper function of
| > the camera takes much higher bursts during shutter
| > control, the cell would
| > become unuseable way before that. Under normal use
| > in my camera, a 357 will
| > last 6 months or so.
| >
| > I've measured another OM4 at 15 microamps, and the
| > OM4T seems to range
| > around 9 to 12 microamps.
| >
| > Chip Stratton
| > cstrat@xxxxxxxxx
| >
| >
| > > Hi folks,
| > >
| > > My OM4 drinks electricity (on standby) at 25 micro
| > > amps, anyone have any idea how long a set of new
| > 357's
| > > will last? (is 25microamps a particularly bad
| > figure?)
| > >
| > >
| > > Chris
| > >
| >
| >
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