Get an old fashioned pencil with an eraser. Clean the battery contacts
by rubbing them with the eraser. Then try a nice fresh set of
batteries. That might work.
On 11/21/2019 10:44 AM, John wrote:
On 11/20/2019 09:28:33, mike wilson wrote:
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.
I didn't have time to clean the battery leakage when I found it; just
removed the batteries & brushed out the surface gunk so it wouldn't
get any worse.
That's what prompted me to check the other two.
No batteries inside, so I put fresh ones in to check them. They don't
do anything when I turn them on, no charging whine, no nothing. Tried
with a different set of batteries from a different pack. Still no
response.
I'll give the "turn it on & let it sit for 30 minutes" later today &
see if that works, but I'm pretty sure I've effed them up beyond my
ability to fix them.
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