[Leica] Mercury battery solution for M5, Leicaflex, etc.??

[Grduprey at aol.com (Grduprey@aol.com)]

In a message dated 10/7/2005 4:49:33 PM Central Daylight Time, 
simonpj@mac.com writes:
I vaguely remember a potential problem to do with the voltage stability of
alkaline batteries compared to the mercury batteries: that the mercury
batteries retain a relatively steady voltage until they fail, while the
alkaline batteries are constantly reducing in voltage. Presumably this is
something that the meter electronics have to be able to compensate for, and
may be a potential problem for the M5, Leicaflex, etc. in which the meter
circuits were designed to deal with a constant 1.35V


A year or so ago, I had Leica modify my SL for the Alkaline batteries, as 
that is what they recomended.  It has worked just fine for me.  No problem 
with 
voltage fall off, and the batteries are readily available, even here in 
Cedar 
Rapids.

Gene