Hmmm. interesting. The Nicad issue would be the lower voltage and possiably the higher current that they can supply. One MZ7 is brand new still in the box. Wounder if I can clame warrenty on it???????
James On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:20:32 +0800, Bong Manayon wrote: >That sounds like what happened to both my MZ-Ms way back; both had to >do with some motor which was replaced by Pentax (one was under >warranty while the other was not). I can no longer exactly remember >why they failed (it happened way back in 2001 or so...although one may >have been a quality control issue) but I know it did not have anything >to do with batteries. >Speaking of batteries, the manual does say that nicads are no-no for >the battery pack FG; it does not say why but I do remember something >from the Canon motor drive MA (for the A-1/AE-1 Program) manual which >also does not allow nicads that it has something to do with a >difference in...something (watts? amps? --I forget; I don't have that >manual anymore)...which would effectively burn out motors (the motor >drive MA does have a separate nicad battery pack which downgrades its >performance). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
