Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/20/99 12:39:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, doug@meditor.demon.co.uk writes: << 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. Regards, Doug Richardson >> I was skeptical when they told me that it corrected the discharge curve. Not enough room in the little whatzis for complex circuitry, nor is it expensive enough. Perhaps it just works better than the average "conversion" to alkaline 625A because the MS76 has a dischrage curve a bit more like a mercury cell to begin with. Too bad there's this whole problem, as so many truly *great* cameras/meters of the past were designed to use the mercury batteries. DT