Chryseus
New Member
Well the situation is I have an Olympus FE-130 digital camera that I mainly use for taking pictures and videos of various projects I am working on.
My problem is that the camera goes through batteries like crazy, on average a pair of decent quality AA alkaline batteries will last 45 minutes with no use of the flash which is ridiculous.
Now I could of course use more expensive batteries or use rechargeable batteries but.. well it's just a pain in the arse, in my lab I have easy access to mains power.
So when I go looking for a power adaptor I find it quite easily, however the cost of the cable and power supply is stupid, something in the range of £70 which is totaly not worth the money, who the hell makes a cable that costs 40 odd pound, well obviously Olympus does.
So I then decide to build my own, at first I thought the connector was a mini USB, however it turns out it is another one of them no-name connectors.
The only thing I have to fit this is my data transfer cable which I don't really want to touch.
Anyways, I now want to go through the battery compartment which should be pretty easy, the problem however is that I would prefer not to solder directly to the connectors, so what should I do ?
The two options I have thought of so far are:
1. Cut open and empty two AA batteries to make a false battery which a wire can be soldered to.
2. Use some kind of premade thing that does the same thing as I would prefer not to spend my time cutting open batteries.
So what should I do ?
My problem is that the camera goes through batteries like crazy, on average a pair of decent quality AA alkaline batteries will last 45 minutes with no use of the flash which is ridiculous.
Now I could of course use more expensive batteries or use rechargeable batteries but.. well it's just a pain in the arse, in my lab I have easy access to mains power.
So when I go looking for a power adaptor I find it quite easily, however the cost of the cable and power supply is stupid, something in the range of £70 which is totaly not worth the money, who the hell makes a cable that costs 40 odd pound, well obviously Olympus does.
So I then decide to build my own, at first I thought the connector was a mini USB, however it turns out it is another one of them no-name connectors.
The only thing I have to fit this is my data transfer cable which I don't really want to touch.
Anyways, I now want to go through the battery compartment which should be pretty easy, the problem however is that I would prefer not to solder directly to the connectors, so what should I do ?
The two options I have thought of so far are:
1. Cut open and empty two AA batteries to make a false battery which a wire can be soldered to.
2. Use some kind of premade thing that does the same thing as I would prefer not to spend my time cutting open batteries.
So what should I do ?
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