Battery mod for a Yashica Electro.

[danielburgess]

Hi,

Just bought my 1st rangefinder. It is a Yashica Electro 35 GS. After reading some webbies, realised that the battery was phased out because it uses mercury. A few options are to buy an adapter or to modify it. Just a couple of questions;

1) Is the adapter sold in SGP?
2) What 6v battery can I use and where to get it? Was in Mustafa last night and all they had were 3v ones.
3) If I have to get the adapter off Ebay, does anybody want to get one as well? We could combine shipping to save a couple of dollars.

Thanks in advance!

[clubgrit]

When I had the Yashica, it already had the battery adapter already installed. It came from the Yashica Guy, you can buy from him :

http://www.yashica-guy.com/document/battery.html

This guy also has some great notes about the Yashica:

http://mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/

Originally Posted by danielburgess Hi, Just bought my 1st rangefinder. It is a Yashica Electro 35 GS. After reading some webbies, realised that the battery was phased out because it uses mercury. A few options are to buy an adapter or to modify it. Just a couple of questions; 1) Is the adapter sold in SGP? 2) What 6v battery can I use and where to get it? Was in Mustafa last night and all they had were 3v ones. 3) If I have to get the adapter off Ebay, does anybody want to get one as well? We could combine shipping to save a couple of dollars. Thanks in advance!

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[lawtrash]

1) Is the adapter sold in SGP?
Not that I know of

2) What 6v battery can I use and where to get it? Was in Mustafa last night and all they had were 3v ones.
4LR44 or 4SR44 (4LR44 is easier to find - I got mine from Mustafa) OR just stack and tape 4 LR44 batteries together can be found anywhere and cheap.

3) If I have to get the adapter off Ebay, does anybody want to get one as well? We could combine shipping to save a couple of dollars.
From eBay, I do not really have to get from Yashica guy there are other cheaper ones


Altervative Options:
4) DIY - there are tonnes of examples on the web. Just find a spring wrap ur battery to beef up the size, dump it in the battery then dump ur spring in. Wau La shd work now.

5) Send your camera for a overhual at one of the shop at Penin and get the battery compartment modified - cons: it will probably cost more then what u got ur camera for.

Good luck and have fun. I love my yashicas

[patch17]

i use a single 4LR44 6v battery with a spring. (you should be able to get a spring from any DIY shop or just make one up out of some mid-gauge wire.) doesn't matter if the battery clunks around abit, the +ve and -ve contacts are maintained without any problems.

[diaotou-hellen]

you can add 4~5pcs 5 cent or 10 cent coins. I'm using 3V lithium battery with 5 5cent coins.
I think that is the easiest and cheapest way.

[kongmalikong]

I have the adaptor, but what batteries should i buy for it?

[danielburgess]

The 4LR44's are fine, make sure you get the 6v ones, cause the more common 3v ones look the same at 1st glance.

[lau kinwah]

Hi all , original battery for yashica electro 35 was using national mecury battery model HN-4N (5.6V) thickness 16.78 mm x lenght 44.24 mm , now this battery was discontinue for long time and very hard to find , so we have to find somethings to replace or modify it , the idea way is using 1 pc of CR-123A (3V) , AND 2PCS OF LR-44 (1.5 X 2 = 3V ) , these two pcs of battery please use scott tape to stick its together , all these two type of battery add up become 6 v (lenght was 45 mm) . in this case no need to use any adapter , spring or coin etc .


best regards
lau kin wah