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Subject: [Leica] Alkaline vs Silver 625 replacement batteries
From: jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed Apr 6 19:23:43 2005
References: <040720050202.16788.425494B8000295DE00004194220075115004040A990A02D201D202080106@comcast.net>

John,
See this from Bob Decker (the doyen of Nikon F & F2 meter repairers):
http://hometown.aol.com/drwyn/myhomepage/webdoc4.htm
Cheers
Jayanand Govindaraj
Chennai, India

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John O. Newell" <john.o.newell@comcast.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:32 AM
Subject: [Leica] Alkaline vs Silver 625 replacement batteries


> This is probably a dumb question; in fact, I hope it is, but I'm cautious 
> about making assumptions.  I'm wondering whether anyone has had, or can 
> think of, any issues in using a silver 625 cell in a camera that 
> originally used a mercury 625 cell but has been recalibrated for an 
> alkaline 625  cell.  This would be a change from 1.5v nominal to 1.55v 
> nominal, which seems like it would be a difference so small that it would 
> be easily lost in the noise (examples: didn't precisely center needle; 
> didn't pick precisely correct area to meter) or at least would be well 
> within the latitude of even color reversal film.  Yes/no/maybe?
> Also, I'm assuming...but interested in confirmation...that there are no 
> physical differences between the alkaline and silver oxide dimensions?  I 
> have read of users with problems using the CRIS adapters.
> Many thanks for any info
> John Newell
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