DIYbanter - View Single Post - OT-camera batteries? Olympus C-3000

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:44:50 GMT,
(Devonshire) wrote:

On the day of Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:35:26 GMT...
Gunner
typed these letters:

Also..anyone have one of these cameras AND the proper AC wall wart? I
need to know the voltage and polarity. The manual I downloaded didnt
have any specs

The proper wall wart that was intended for my Olympus was too
expensive so I made one. If your old Olympus is like mine it had an
"odd" sized jack for the wall wart to plug in to on the camera. Oddly
enough, Radio Shack had the correct plug for the jack. My Olympus
D-600L was 6 volt (4 AA bats) On the camera the pin in the jack is
shown to be positive. I found that a 1000mA wall wart was not quite
enough to run a D-600L. I recall hooking a amp meter to the thing and
seeing it draw to the tune of about 1200mA. Which explains why
the alkaline batts wouldn't last. Your camera maybe different, it's
a bit newer than the Olympus that I had. The largest smart meda
card I could use was 8mb. Later models would take up to a 64mb
card. Would you believe I gave like $400 for this camera refurbished?

It retailed for like $1200 when it came out. This was maybe 8 to 10
years ago.

Devonshire

I traded $100 (street value) worth of tooling for it. Ive got maybe $5
in it.

Thanks for the info. I was thinking about making an external battery
battery pack for it out of a gel cell and a right angle power
connector

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner