Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/20

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Mercury vs. Alkaline Battery
From: "Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:17:37 -0700

On 20 Jun 99, Doug Richardson wrote, at least in part:

> InfinityDT@aol.com wrote:
> 
> >It is my understanding that the adaptor made by CRIS (which takes a
> MS76 silver
> battery inside a shell the size of a 625/PX13) has the requisite
> circuitry to
> flatten the discharge curve to match a mercury battery.  At least
> that's what
> they told me.
> 
> Last year CRIS told me that the voltage reduction was done by a
> resistor, and not by any form of active electronic circuitry, so this
> would seem to to rule out any form of flattening of the discharge curve.

But isn't the dischage curve on the silver oxide 76s pretty flat 
anyway? Much more so than that of the alkalines, I believe. 


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