Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/29

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Subject: [Leica] Light meters
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Thu Apr 29 21:19:37 2004
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The selenium cells do oxidize but it does take a long time and it is 
possible to have the cells replaced. The battery savings alone would 
easily pay for the eventual (20-30 yrs?) cell replacement. Of course 
there is the sensitivity issue as well.

John Collier

On Apr 29, 2004, at 9:42 PM, dante@umich.edu wrote:

> 1 - Selenium is the one that doesn't take batteries and wears out.
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