Boris Liberman wrote: > I have older Compact Drive PD7x model which is truly excellent piece of > gear. There is one gotcha though. It is rather sensitive about the > voltage batteries you insert. I did not try it with alkalines 'cause I > don't trust them to be powerful enough. However I found (by trial and > error) that if I insert a set of freshly charged 2300 or 2700 MAh > batteries, it would tell me it is unhappy about the voltage. However if > I let them be used a bit (say by taking few shots by my *istD), it would > work fine. Ultimately I resolved to using it either with mains adapter > or with car lighter adapter 'cause I have both.
Thanks Boris. The manual for the P70 says that high capacity batteries may not be the best - so perhaps that is what you are experiencing. This new set of 2650 mAh seems to be working well. I do have a lead acid video cam battery and car type adapter plug for it - I used ot use that to power my X's drive using the car adapter. (It's handy because it will power anything that runs off a car adapter, like a cell phone as well.) > > Perhaps in the newer model they have fixed this issue. > > By the way, mine works just fine with 1 GB Sand Disk SD Extreme III Card > I bought. I doubt it will work with SDHC cards, but I have none, so I > don't care too much. > Does your model do the verified card transfers? If so - does that work with SD cards. Thanks - MCC -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
