"Peter" <peter0o0o0o@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> I've had one of these since 2005.
>
> It takes four AA cells, which is one of the reasons I chose it, having
> been burnt with the Sony lithium battery scandal, etc.
>
> I have always used four NIMH cells in it - these are nominally 1.2V
> when charged. And it was fine, taking hundreds of shots on one charge.
>
> Recently, it started to indicate 'flat battery' very early.
>
> I sent it to Pentax. After a long time (admin cockups caused by stupid
> people) and £70 I got it back. I had some trouble establi****ng whether
> they actually found anything wrong - apparently there is no
> communication available with the 'engineer' doing the work...
>
> It works the same way as it did before however. On normal alkaline AA
> cells it shows full charge. On fully charged NIMH it shows only a
> partial charge.
>
> What could have gone wrong?
>
> Products which can use either 1.5V or 1.2V cells tend to be selectable
> somewhere otherwise they cannot tell if the batteries are going flat.
>
> I am somewhat concerned because immediately before I sent it to Pentax
> I did use it with alkaline cells (1.5V) and they still went 'flat'
> pretty fast.
>
> I well remember the Olympus OM2SP scandal where the camera drained the
> battery when OFF...
Buy a new set of NiMH batteries. You can get some quite cheaply at your
friendly neighbourhood supermarket (Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury etc.).
I had a NiMH set of which one cell would no longer hold any charge so I
replaced the set.
I tend to always have 2 or 3 sets of charged up NiMH batteries in my
accessories bag anyway.
Regards Mike.
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