Re: Olympus C700 - Progress at last!

From: Fred (testing_at_testing1212mouse.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:01:56 GMT

Thanks, Ken. I sure can't see a switch down in there, but will certainly
give the spray treatment a try.

Specially thanks for the safety warning.

And Happy New Year!

Fred

"Ken Weitzel" <kweitzel@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:txLAd.618878$%k.493377@pd7tw2no...
>
>
> Fred wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the good words, Jim! It's just a hobby camera and so I'm not
in
> > a hurry to get if fixed or dish out a couple hundred $$. More fun for
me to
> > diagnose it and hopefully fix the blasted thing .... and pass along what
I
> > find out.
> >
> > After a few plugging/unplugging, turns out there's no oxide build up on
the
> > AC receptacle. Dang it, that would've been too much to ask!
>
> Hi...
>
> Dunno how much it matters, if at all... but not
> on the ac receptacle.
>
> Rather, there's a switch as part of that jack. When you
> insert your plug, it physically pushes the switch open,
> breaking the connection between the battery set and the
> camera. So that the batteries and ac adapter aren't
> paralleled. Naturally it follows that when you remove the
> plug, the "switch" returns to its resting position, so
> that the batteries are once again connected to the camera.
>
> If you have a stereo and/or headphone set you'll get
> the principle... plug in the headphones and the speakers
> disconnect; remove the plug and the speakers are again
> connected.
>
> You might try inserting and removing it many times, slowly.
> Perhaps rotating the plug a little while it's inserted.
>
> I really, really hope that you don't even think about
> dis-assembling your camera. Really. So, if all else
> fails, you might try just a single puff of contact
> cleaner. That jack is an enclosed assembly, spraying
> into it won't be spraying into the camera unless you
> "drown" it.
>
> So, you might pick up a spray can of contact cleaner
> (in Canada anyway, Radio Shack, about $10 CDN).
> Then holding the camera so the jack is down, give it
> just a single puff into that jack. A tiny, tiny
> amount, a fraction of a second spray. And continuing
> to hold it jack down, immediately insert and remove
> the plug over and over. If the plug is at fault, this
> should clean it up. Leave it air dry overnight, propped
> somehow so it rests plug down. On a *** of newspaper
> just in case.
>
> I'm writing from photo.digital, perhaps the sci.electronics
> guys will have better/more advice.
>
> Take care, and all the best in the new year.
>
> Ken
>
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