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Need Help with Olympus C700 Power Problem
I would sure appreciate hearing from someone who had this problem and FIXED
it. I have a C-700 which is about 18 months old. My problem isn't ordinary battery drain, rather what I suspect to be some kind of short circuit. Newly inserted batteries, alkaline or (brand new, fully charged NiMH) re-chargeables only work for a picture or two. I can open the compartment door, rub the contacts a bit, and get maybe one more picture, maybe not. I posted this query about a month ago, and got a suggestion clean the contacts, check the springs, etc. I have done this and the contact points are all good & clean. No change in performance. Already checked the obvious -- tried several new batteries and all act the same, batteries are not in backwards, etc. The problem is with the camera, I know that for sure. Thanks in advance! Fred |
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Fred wrote: I would sure appreciate hearing from someone who had this problem and FIXED it. I have a C-700 which is about 18 months old. My problem isn't ordinary battery drain, rather what I suspect to be some kind of short circuit. Newly inserted batteries, alkaline or (brand new, fully charged NiMH) re-chargeables only work for a picture or two. I can open the compartment door, rub the contacts a bit, and get maybe one more picture, maybe not. I posted this query about a month ago, and got a suggestion clean the contacts, check the springs, etc. I have done this and the contact points are all good & clean. No change in performance. Already checked the obvious -- tried several new batteries and all act the same, batteries are not in backwards, etc. The problem is with the camera, I know that for sure. Thanks in advance! Fred Hi again, Fred... Now that you've tried NiMh's you've kinda narrowed it down a bit... don't know how much it helps, but perhaps worth knowing anyway. If you can deplete charged NiMh's in only one picture, then when you removed the batteries they'd be blistering hot. You'd probably also hear them sizzling. If they aren't too hot to even think of touching, then you've narrowed it down to the camera merely reporting them useless prematurely. It's a start? Ken |
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Fred wrote: I would sure appreciate hearing from someone who had this problem and FIXED it. I have a C-700 which is about 18 months old. My problem isn't ordinary battery drain, rather what I suspect to be some kind of short circuit. Newly inserted batteries, alkaline or (brand new, fully charged NiMH) re-chargeables only work for a picture or two. I can open the compartment door, rub the contacts a bit, and get maybe one more picture, maybe not. I posted this query about a month ago, and got a suggestion clean the contacts, check the springs, etc. I have done this and the contact points are all good & clean. No change in performance. Already checked the obvious -- tried several new batteries and all act the same, batteries are not in backwards, etc. The problem is with the camera, I know that for sure. Thanks in advance! Fred Hi again, Fred... Now that you've tried NiMh's you've kinda narrowed it down a bit... don't know how much it helps, but perhaps worth knowing anyway. If you can deplete charged NiMh's in only one picture, then when you removed the batteries they'd be blistering hot. You'd probably also hear them sizzling. If they aren't too hot to even think of touching, then you've narrowed it down to the camera merely reporting them useless prematurely. It's a start? Ken |
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"Fred" wrote in message news:_jv%c.9489$x12.4174@trnddc05... I would sure appreciate hearing from someone who had this problem and FIXED it. I have a C-700 which is about 18 months old. My problem isn't ordinary battery drain, rather what I suspect to be some kind of short circuit. Newly inserted batteries, alkaline or (brand new, fully charged NiMH) re-chargeables only work for a picture or two. I can open the compartment door, rub the contacts a bit, and get maybe one more picture, maybe not. I posted this query about a month ago, and got a suggestion clean the contacts, check the springs, etc. I have done this and the contact points are all good & clean. No change in performance. Already checked the obvious -- tried several new batteries and all act the same, batteries are not in backwards, etc. The problem is with the camera, I know that for sure. Thanks in advance! Fred Any electronics technician with a multimeter can clip-lead your batteries thru the meter into your camera, and read the current drain the camera is putting on them in a few minutes. This will tell you why your batteries are running down. Then, you can send the camera in for repair, and tell the repair tech that it is drawing "X number of amperes at idle, and you need to get it fixed." If your batteries are 2000 milliampere-hour batteries, (for example) and the camera is drawing 4 amps, then the batteries are only going to last 30 minutes before they are stone cold dead. A camera should only draw current when it is taking or displaying a picture. When it is idling, or turned off, it should draw little or no current off of its battery set..... |
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"Fred" wrote in message news:_jv%c.9489$x12.4174@trnddc05... I would sure appreciate hearing from someone who had this problem and FIXED it. I have a C-700 which is about 18 months old. My problem isn't ordinary battery drain, rather what I suspect to be some kind of short circuit. Newly inserted batteries, alkaline or (brand new, fully charged NiMH) re-chargeables only work for a picture or two. I can open the compartment door, rub the contacts a bit, and get maybe one more picture, maybe not. I posted this query about a month ago, and got a suggestion clean the contacts, check the springs, etc. I have done this and the contact points are all good & clean. No change in performance. Already checked the obvious -- tried several new batteries and all act the same, batteries are not in backwards, etc. The problem is with the camera, I know that for sure. Thanks in advance! Fred Any electronics technician with a multimeter can clip-lead your batteries thru the meter into your camera, and read the current drain the camera is putting on them in a few minutes. This will tell you why your batteries are running down. Then, you can send the camera in for repair, and tell the repair tech that it is drawing "X number of amperes at idle, and you need to get it fixed." If your batteries are 2000 milliampere-hour batteries, (for example) and the camera is drawing 4 amps, then the batteries are only going to last 30 minutes before they are stone cold dead. A camera should only draw current when it is taking or displaying a picture. When it is idling, or turned off, it should draw little or no current off of its battery set..... |
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"Ken Weitzel" wrote in message
news:CIv%c.349887$gE.252675@pd7tw3no... Hi again, Fred... Now that you've tried NiMh's you've kinda narrowed it down a bit... don't know how much it helps, but perhaps worth knowing anyway. If you can deplete charged NiMh's in only one picture, then when you removed the batteries they'd be blistering hot. You'd probably also hear them sizzling. If they aren't too hot to even think of touching, then you've narrowed it down to the camera merely reporting them useless prematurely. It's a start? Ken Thanks again, Ken. Yep, it's the camera that's the problem all right - not the batteries. Batteries aren't being depleted. Camera sees "good" batteries as "bad." |
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"Ken Weitzel" wrote in message
news:CIv%c.349887$gE.252675@pd7tw3no... Hi again, Fred... Now that you've tried NiMh's you've kinda narrowed it down a bit... don't know how much it helps, but perhaps worth knowing anyway. If you can deplete charged NiMh's in only one picture, then when you removed the batteries they'd be blistering hot. You'd probably also hear them sizzling. If they aren't too hot to even think of touching, then you've narrowed it down to the camera merely reporting them useless prematurely. It's a start? Ken Thanks again, Ken. Yep, it's the camera that's the problem all right - not the batteries. Batteries aren't being depleted. Camera sees "good" batteries as "bad." |
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"Ken Weitzel" wrote in message
news:CIv%c.349887$gE.252675@pd7tw3no... Hi again, Fred... Now that you've tried NiMh's you've kinda narrowed it down a bit... don't know how much it helps, but perhaps worth knowing anyway. If you can deplete charged NiMh's in only one picture, then when you removed the batteries they'd be blistering hot. You'd probably also hear them sizzling. If they aren't too hot to even think of touching, then you've narrowed it down to the camera merely reporting them useless prematurely. It's a start? Ken Thanks again, Ken. Yep, it's the camera that's the problem all right - not the batteries. Batteries aren't being depleted. Camera sees "good" batteries as "bad." |
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"William Graham" wrote in message news:gXv%c.261620$8_6.39970@attbi_s04... "Fred" wrote in message news:_jv%c.9489$x12.4174@trnddc05... I would sure appreciate hearing from someone who had this problem and FIXED it. I have a C-700 which is about 18 months old. My problem isn't ordinary battery drain, rather what I suspect to be some kind of short circuit. Newly inserted batteries, alkaline or (brand new, fully charged NiMH) re-chargeables only work for a picture or two. I can open the compartment door, rub the contacts a bit, and get maybe one more picture, maybe not. I posted this query about a month ago, and got a suggestion clean the contacts, check the springs, etc. I have done this and the contact points are all good & clean. No change in performance. Already checked the obvious -- tried several new batteries and all act the same, batteries are not in backwards, etc. The problem is with the camera, I know that for sure. Thanks in advance! Fred Any electronics technician with a multimeter can clip-lead your batteries thru the meter into your camera, and read the current drain the camera is putting on them in a few minutes. This will tell you why your batteries are running down. Then, you can send the camera in for repair, and tell the repair tech that it is drawing "X number of amperes at idle, and you need to get it fixed." If your batteries are 2000 milliampere-hour batteries, (for example) and the camera is drawing 4 amps, then the batteries are only going to last 30 minutes before they are stone cold dead. A camera should only draw current when it is taking or displaying a picture. When it is idling, or turned off, it should draw little or no current off of its battery set..... Are you guys not able to read???? 1 - Batteries are fine! They check out fine with meter and other devices. 2 - Batteries are not being drained by camera. The camera circuitry is not seeing the voltage from the batteries. 3 - Battery contacts are fine. Making good contact and they are clean. 4 - The problem is with the CAMERA -- not the batteries. 5 - Can we drop the "check the batteries" discussion now? 6 - Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop smoking! B^) Fred One more time ... |
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"William Graham" wrote in message news:gXv%c.261620$8_6.39970@attbi_s04... "Fred" wrote in message news:_jv%c.9489$x12.4174@trnddc05... I would sure appreciate hearing from someone who had this problem and FIXED it. I have a C-700 which is about 18 months old. My problem isn't ordinary battery drain, rather what I suspect to be some kind of short circuit. Newly inserted batteries, alkaline or (brand new, fully charged NiMH) re-chargeables only work for a picture or two. I can open the compartment door, rub the contacts a bit, and get maybe one more picture, maybe not. I posted this query about a month ago, and got a suggestion clean the contacts, check the springs, etc. I have done this and the contact points are all good & clean. No change in performance. Already checked the obvious -- tried several new batteries and all act the same, batteries are not in backwards, etc. The problem is with the camera, I know that for sure. Thanks in advance! Fred Any electronics technician with a multimeter can clip-lead your batteries thru the meter into your camera, and read the current drain the camera is putting on them in a few minutes. This will tell you why your batteries are running down. Then, you can send the camera in for repair, and tell the repair tech that it is drawing "X number of amperes at idle, and you need to get it fixed." If your batteries are 2000 milliampere-hour batteries, (for example) and the camera is drawing 4 amps, then the batteries are only going to last 30 minutes before they are stone cold dead. A camera should only draw current when it is taking or displaying a picture. When it is idling, or turned off, it should draw little or no current off of its battery set..... Are you guys not able to read???? 1 - Batteries are fine! They check out fine with meter and other devices. 2 - Batteries are not being drained by camera. The camera circuitry is not seeing the voltage from the batteries. 3 - Battery contacts are fine. Making good contact and they are clean. 4 - The problem is with the CAMERA -- not the batteries. 5 - Can we drop the "check the batteries" discussion now? 6 - Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop smoking! B^) Fred One more time ... |
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