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< I have 3 motor drives, 3 bodies, 3 battery packs.
(An embarrassment of riches JoMac!)
< In testing them all today to find the bad battery pack, and
< see if any of the other equipment needed repair at
< Pentax, first one, then another of the MDs locked up. The
< camera's shutter release button was prevented from being
< depressed by the MD's actuating pin being solid in the up
< position. They would work in rewind (until one of them
< stopped doing that too!), so they were getting juice (Charger-M,
< Power Supply A, NiCAD packs). The cameras work in
< manual, and with the Winder LX and it's 4 AAs.
< Yes, I kept resetting the frame counter by opening the back
< before it hit 36, and no, I had no film in the cameras.
< I was pretty constantly at 1/250 of a second, with or without lens.
< The third drive still functions fine, so I know the NiCADs are
< OK, but I'm hesitant to use the high speed continuous mode now,
< as that is when the other two locked up.
< I'm hoping this is an easy fix removing a few screws and poking
< at a gear or pawl or plate to free it up.
< Anybody?
JoMac,
You didn't happen to switch the speed down to low, low, low on the drives?
I've had similar happen and not noticed how slow the low setting can be in
cycling thru an autowind. My other suggestion is checking the drive's
electrical contacts with the body. This has to be an electrical contact not
being made or completed.
Regards, Bob S.
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