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Subject: Re: [OM] How the list saved my OM-2s; was OM Battery Problems History....
From: Doggre@xxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:14:47 EDT
In a message dated 7/10/01 6:38:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
norcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

>snip<
> I have OM-1,
>  OM-2, OM-G, and OM-PC in addition to my OM-2s's but the OM-2s is the
>  favorite now that its battery hunger is in check.  I could kick myself
>  for banishing it to the closet for 8 years.
>  
>  The moral of the story is never, ever use anything other than a silver
>  oxide battery.  They are designed to put up with the small, continous
>  current draw of a watch.  That's exactly what the 2s, 3(T) and 4(T) do. 
>  Continuously draw a small current.  Silver oxide will cure most of the
>  problem even for the older current hungry 4's.

Thanks, Chuck.  Well-put.  Forwarded your post to the bro-in-law.  I would 
just add, if memory serves from reading recent posts, that apparently the 
Eveready 357 is best of all the 1.5V silver oxides.

Rich
  

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