Re: [APML] camera needs power : (

["Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@multiboard.com>]

At 20:07 25/02/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Unfortunately the camera I am using for my astro-shooting (olympus OM-10) 
>requires batteries to open the shutter.  Does anyone know of a way to 
>replace the two small button batteries in the camera with a homemade 
>insert with contacts leading to a rechargeable or AC power supply?  Also, 
>thanks to those who replied concerning counterweights.  I am still hoping 
>to hear from others (perhaps simple plans for a custom/homemade weight-system).

         A piece of wood dowel, slightly smaller diameter than the bettery, 
and slighty shorter.  Two prices of thin metal - even tin foil in a  real 
crunch, and two wires soldered to a battery connector.  one piece of metal 
at each end of the dowel.   Glue or tack on.  You might have to use a 
thinnner dowel or score one side of the dowel to allow room to run up a 
small wire.
         Soldier a wire to each end.  use two different colorus so you can 
tell positive and negative polarities apart.  Solder the wire ont eh 
udnerside, the part of th metal that is next tohe end of the wood dowel, 
not he part that touches the camera.
         So far, you have a placebo battery, for lack of better words.
         make sure you have the right voltage and be ready to hook up to a 
battery hold - something you buy t Radio Shack for example.
         .  Now, it can be difficult to screw the battery cover into place 
and not cop opff the wires, so see fi you can get a new or used battery 
cover form a juked camera or a repair shiop that has spare part.
         You need to drill a hole in the middle of the battery cover to run 
your wires through.
         Drill a good sized hole.
         now, place in your "wood battery", make sure you ahve polarity 
correct and double check the volttage agian, run wires through the battery 
cover, screw on battery cover, hook up wires to bigger battery, and away 
you go.
good luck
joe




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