Several years ago, when these types of batteries first became available, I
asked Oly tech service if they could be used in the OM-4T. Unequivocal
"NO." Straight from the horse's mouth, as it were.
end
Regards
Bruce Appelbaum
Yorktown Heights, New York
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth Wood" <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] That pesky battery question again (OM4T)
> At 02:45 PM 7/7/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >I had assumed that the battery in my OM4T (just bought used)
> >were a two cell version of SR44s. The battery is a single-unit
> >3V that fits the OM4T. The battery check function seems to
> >indicate it is happy with this battery.
> >
> >I just pulled out my my magnifier, and the thing says
> >"CR1/3N Li-Mn cell 3V Japan". So its a lithium cell.
> >My multimeter give a no-load voltage of 2.94v.
> >
> >Is this battery O.K. for an OM4-T? Does it last longer/
> >shorter than the silver oxide cells?
>
>
> That's not the only issue: it has a different reference voltage under
no-load conditions, which means the metering will have some error introduced
to it. (Two SR44's would read approx. 3.10 volts under no load.) I used
some of these cells for awhile, and found that they always died relatively
quickly in my OM-4 -- and before they died, I'd get more "odd behaviour" out
of the camera.
>
> Garth
>
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