Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/07

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Subject: [Leica] DMR battery info
From: topoxforddoc at btinternet.com (Charlie Chan)
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 21:33:44 +0000
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Another vote for Michael Bass. I got mine back within a fortnight including 
transatlantic shipping. Great service and good value.

Best wishes,

Charlie Chan
Cheltenham, UK

topoxforddoc at btinternet.com
www.cancer-surgeon.co.uk
www.charlie-chan.co.uk



On 7 Dec 2010, at 16:08, Gary Pinkerton wrote:

> 
> Doug and all
> I've had 4 batteries rebuilt by Michael Bass and they all seem to be just 
> fine; getting ''about'' 150 shots RAW per battery [well, I haven't had 
> chance to run out the very last one, but it seems ok so far]
> 
> I've tested Michael's SLA battery cables, his Li-Poly battery cables, his 
> AC power unit, and Tekkeon power cables.
> I give a thumbs up to all of them. 
> I was not able to test the life of each unit so that's to be determined.
> The Tekkeon is rated [I believe] for -4 F, which is probably lower than 
> the internals can go. No chance to try that either, but that's ok :)
> None of these units would fire the DMR at it's max rated 9 shot burst, 
> only getting 3 - 4 shots at best, until I switched R8 bodies.
> On a whim to see if my older R8 would even work with the DMR, I found it 
> not only worked, but it would shoot those 9 shot bursts with the external 
> setups with no trouble ! The first R8 worked fine otherwise, except for 
> the burst issue.
> 
> Also, Michael is a good guy to work with and talk to, very accommodating, 
> and patient too.  I'm pretty 'tech limited' so I needed a lot of 
> instruction :) 
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] DMR service update)
Message from gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton) ([Leica] DMR battery info)