> On 20 November 2019 at 14:21 John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 11/20/2019 01:54:22, mike wilson wrote: > >> On 19 November 2019 at 17:04 John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> This was taken with a flaky Vivitar 285HV. All of my Pentax flashes appear > >> to be dead now. And since all of them are OLD, none will be covered by > >> warranty. > >> > >> Is there any place I can send them that will actually repair them? Or > >> should I just trash them & replace? > > > > Unusual for them all to be completely dead. You can recondition capacitors > > by setting to manual, then charging and discharging repeatedly. Might take > > some time to charge the first few cycles. > > > > I killed one of them by leaving batteries in it too long & they leaked. > > The other two were stored without batteries. When I put batteries in them > they > won't turn on at all. I'm sure I did something wrong with them as well.
Do they whine at all? Still might be worth leaving them switched on for 15-30 minutes. Battery corrosion can be dealt with, unless it has actually dissolved parts. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
