Wouldn't poor contacts cause the motor drive to stop working completely at times?
I'm not able to run a single roll through the camera w/o the motor drive acting funny, but it seems as though when it works, it works fine and this problem never showed up when testing the motor drive w/o actually winding film (empty camera). Any other suggestions? I'm going to send this one back to KEH and see if I can get another one in the meantime- I want two drives as I have two Super As. Taka -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Len Zedel Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 11:02 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Motor Drive problems I repaired a motordrive with this exact problem! Len. On Mon, 27 May 2002, HUDERER Bernd wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a defective Drive A at Ebay. I found the problem: the > connection between the battery contacts and the wires inside is done > by a metal part which is clamped inside the housing onto the inner > side of the battery contacts. The wires are soldered to the clamping > metal part. At my drive the clamping got poor. After reworking it, > everything works fine again. So maybe at your drives, it's the same > contact problem. > > regards > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: TM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 3:53 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Motor Drive problems > > > > > > I finally had the opportunity to test out my Motor Drive A and found > > a problem- quite often, the drive wouldn't wind the entire frame and > > I'd have to wind it to completion by hand. > > > > I checked and double-checked the attachment to make sure nothing was > > loose, but it looks like there is something wrong- any ideas on what > > to look at that can cause this? > > > > It occured on high and low speeds, so I assume it is not a > > problem with > > just one speed but rather a problem with the drive entirely. > > The camera > > works fine via manual winding, so that doesn't seem to be a problem > > either. > > > > When I get the film developed, I'll see if there is something > > wrong with > > the camera itself. I really hope I didn't trash 6 rolls of Porsches. > > > > I got it from KEH so I'll be contacting them ASAP and probably > > getting another one from them. Too bad, becuase I missed a bunch of > > shots because of this, esp. sequence shots that one can't do w/ > > manual wind. > > > > Taka > > - > > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go > to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
