Thank you all for your replies. It will help me with my purchase. Now I have to unsubscribe again, caus my woman thinks this (very enjoyable) mailing list costs me too much time (time she wants me to spend with her).
So I'll see you guys later another time. And oh... I could of course go for the 'no mail' option... I've heard about it... Could anyone tell me how to do that? And Mark, I'll try to get in touch with someone from my old college (electrotechnics) to check if someone can identify the codes. Take care y'all. Rodelion. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:27 PM Subject: Re: buying a K2 and a KX, advice? > Anton Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >An earlier reply seems to suggest that a dead meter is not > >repairable, I don't know about that, perhaps you could ring > >a service facility and ask. > > Note that both KXs I've worked on had identical symptoms. Since I verified > that the problem with the meter was neither the photocells nor the > galvanometer, that pretty much leaves the electronic circuitry on the meter > board (which *is* getting power from the battery). The only active component > I can find is a 10-pin surface-mount IC. If it's an op-amp I'll probably be > able to come up with a replacement as long as I can determine the pinout. If > it's an ASIC then the show's over. I suspect the former but havenlt > investigated yet. > > The markings on the chips are "NEC 1005E593A" on one camera and "NEC > 1005K572B" on the other. NEC is the manufacturer, 1005 is the chip > designation and the last 4 characters are probably some kind of > manufacturing code. > > Anyone have access to a semiconductor database to find out more about a > "1005" chip made by NEC in a 10-pin SOIC package? > > I've seen an awful lot of KXs for sale on eBay that either admit the meter's > not working or coyly say "I don't have batteries so I can't test the meter. > Sold as is." More than for any other Pentax model. > > If it *is* the IC and I can find a substitute, I may buy a few and re-sell > 'em! > > > -- > Mark Roberts > Photography and writing > www.robertstech.com >
