[LRflex] Re: DMR Battery Charger
- From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:51:52 -0800
At 12/02/2007, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
> > No doubt, theirs is an excellent product, but far too large for=20
> > travelling.. .and most of us do travel with our cameras!
>
>May I disagree about the excellence of the product. The possibility
>of changing
>the pins according to the country standard (US, European, UK) is a clever
>design idea. However, it is not very solidly made.
>
>Last summer one of the pins broke when pulling it out from the
>outlet. I spent a
>small forture on phone calls from Cuba to Leica Solms just to be
>told that I had
>to purchase a new loader, the little insert was not available
>separately. Add to
>that the cost of shipping the item by DHL from NY to Cuba and it
>becomes a very
>expensive incident.
>
>I choose not to go ahead and improvised a fix with a wire attached
>to the inner
>pins with crocodile clips and am still using it that way. Not very
>elegant, but
>it works. Now I saw from the mail below that it is made by Ansmann. I now sent
>them an email to ask them for the insert. I wonder if they will be more
>flexible.
>
>Peter
Hi Peter!
Sorry to hear about your troubles, though I am please that Ansmann
are going to look after you!
I made my statement based on the quality of construction of the
circuit boards, which is above average, though nothing
spectacular. They are, for instance, simple, phenolic resin
boards... for the price they charge, I'd expect Fiberglas, which is
more durable in environments where shock is a possibility.
I have no fear that, electronically, at least, they are durable,
though, like you, I've wondered about the fancy, interchangeable
sockets. Mine never gave me any grief, but I worried about them.
The silly part is that although well made, it is not efficiently
designed. It could be made 25% smaller than I got it down to...
making it comparable to the charger for the 20D, which is a mere
200cc! And, of course, if it was factory done, it could have the
nifty fold away AC pins, which would make it even better.
My article has been accepted for publication in the next Viewfinder,
and I plan to forward a copy to Maike Harberts, the head of the R10
design team. They obviously have been buying "off the shelf"
chargers,but they need to do better, if the R10 is to compete.
Cheers!
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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA
Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/
Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt
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