On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:00:08 -0700, "Ed Price"
wrote:


"Fred" wrote in message
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wrote in message
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The real reason I'm sure is the $150 flat rate to repair a 2 year
old camera. Typically they have test jigs set up for this stuff and
take
less that 5 minutes in most cases.


Apparently you have never worked on a camcorder with an intermittant
problem.
8^)

Actually I have and you are right - they can be tough. In this case, I'm
talking about a digital still camera where the moving parts are all OK.



That's really impressive analysis skills, considering that you forgot about
the shock hazard of the flash circuitry and the energy content of the
batteries.
The shock hazard is trivial, it won't kill you. Won't even burn you,
just make you yell abit.
I did camera repair years ago and we used to use flash capacitors and
charging coils on any hard nose that got transferred in. Just wire it
into an open loop between his metal stool and the steel work tables we
fixed camera on.(And we used really big caps from the older graflex
flashes and old strobonars.)
Also I doubt his camera uses anything bigger than "AA"s, not enough
energy in those to do much more give you a mild spark even on a small
charged capacitor.

And you're still posting to those two imaginary groups.

Ed
wb6wsn

"gothika" wrote in message
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:00:08 -0700, "Ed Price"
wrote:


"Fred" wrote in message
.. .
wrote in message
...
The real reason I'm sure is the $150 flat rate to repair a 2 year
old camera. Typically they have test jigs set up for this stuff and
take
less that 5 minutes in most cases.


Apparently you have never worked on a camcorder with an intermittant
problem.
8^)

Actually I have and you are right - they can be tough. In this case,
I'm
talking about a digital still camera where the moving parts are all OK.



That's really impressive analysis skills, considering that you forgot
about
the shock hazard of the flash circuitry and the energy content of the
batteries.
The shock hazard is trivial, it won't kill you. Won't even burn you,
just make you yell abit.
I did camera repair years ago and we used to use flash capacitors and
charging coils on any hard nose that got transferred in. Just wire it
into an open loop between his metal stool and the steel work tables we
fixed camera on.(And we used really big caps from the older graflex
flashes and old strobonars.)
Also I doubt his camera uses anything bigger than "AA"s, not enough
energy in those to do much more give you a mild spark even on a small
charged capacitor.

And you're still posting to those two imaginary groups.

Ed
wb6wsn


You need to stretch your imagination a bit. True, a charged strobe capacitor
likely won't kill you. But what happens immediately after getting a zap?
Maybe you involuntarily shove that Xacto blade into your thumb, or maybe
knock the camera on the floor.

As for battery energy content. I can recall doing a stoopid trick with a
Polaroid flat-pack battery; I decided to cut the sheet open to see what was
inside. I was amazed to find that, as I was cutting the pack open with a
stainless steel scissors, there was enough heat liberated to boil the
chemical filling and cause smoke to rise from the pack. OK, not exactly
nuclear fission, but not a suggested practice either.

Besides, the OP was a considerably lower than 50th percentile induhvidual,
and ignorant persistence seemed to be his leading trait.


Ed
wb6wsn

http://www.manuals4you.com



On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 17:46:11 GMT, "Fred"
wrote:

Thanks again, Big G!! I really appreciate the links and the info!

"gothika" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:07:44 -0500, "Mark D. Zacharias"
wrote:


"Fred" wrote in message
.. .
OK. That's enough complaining and carrying on, you knuckleheads...

Let's get back to the original subject...

Anybody know where I can get service documentation on the Olympus C-700
digital camera? Olympus does not supply this to the general public OR
service techs.

Anyone? Hello?



If they don't supply it to the public or to repair techs, I don't know
who
else would possibly have it - a defector from Olympus Service, or their
Chinese vendor?

Mark Z.

It's been a while since I did any camera repair.( service days.)
Try a local camera repair shop.
I used to get repair manuals for Nikons from a friend who worked at
SPTS.(Southern Photo Technical Service.)
He's long since retired tho'.
Try making friend with some of the actual repair persons.( some will
make copies of manuals for a small fee.)
Here are some links to someof the pro camera sites.

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a....ic=photo%2enet

http://www.photo.net/community/index

The link below is to an electronic site, lots of how to links and
source links.

http://www.epanorama.net/index.php

The graflex site is mostly for old press cameras but the guys there
are most all camera repairmen and might be able to help you track down
a buyable manual.(They've helped me in the past in procuring hard to
get service manuals.)
http://www.graflex.org/


Want to Fix Something?

http://www.manuals4you.com

Thanks, but no Olympus C700 manuals there. Also, folks will see that all
the Olympus manuals on this site are USER manuals. You can get those from
www.olympus.com.

"Yikes!ItsIke" wrote in message
...


http://www.manuals4you.com



On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 17:46:11 GMT, "Fred"
wrote:

Thanks again, Big G!! I really appreciate the links and the info!

"gothika" wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:07:44 -0500, "Mark D. Zacharias"
wrote:


"Fred" wrote in message
.. .
OK. That's enough complaining and carrying on, you knuckleheads...

Let's get back to the original subject...

Anybody know where I can get service documentation on the Olympus
C-700
digital camera? Olympus does not supply this to the general public
OR
service techs.

Anyone? Hello?



If they don't supply it to the public or to repair techs, I don't know
who
else would possibly have it - a defector from Olympus Service, or
their
Chinese vendor?

Mark Z.

It's been a while since I did any camera repair.( service days.)
Try a local camera repair shop.
I used to get repair manuals for Nikons from a friend who worked at
SPTS.(Southern Photo Technical Service.)
He's long since retired tho'.
Try making friend with some of the actual repair persons.( some will
make copies of manuals for a small fee.)
Here are some links to someof the pro camera sites.

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a....ic=photo%2enet

http://www.photo.net/community/index

The link below is to an electronic site, lots of how to links and
source links.

http://www.epanorama.net/index.php

The graflex site is mostly for old press cameras but the guys there
are most all camera repairmen and might be able to help you track down
a buyable manual.(They've helped me in the past in procuring hard to
get service manuals.)
http://www.graflex.org/


Want to Fix Something?

http://www.manuals4you.com