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Gatsby1923
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Posts: 2
PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:43 pm

Hello everyone thanks for your help with past questions, and today I have a new one. After years of thinking that I needed some sort of weird battery to work the focus beams in my top mounted range finder an old news paper photographer told me all it needed to work was 2 AA batteries. Happily I went home, removed the factory block of wood, replaced it with 2 batteries, pressed the red button, and low and behold let there be light!

There was a problem though. The beam only produces enough light to be useful in a nearly black (not just dark) room. Also it’s not a true split beam, more like a circle of brown light with a bluish small spot that I try and center inside the brownish not quite a circle. Is this correct or should every thing be brighter and more separate?

Thanks Alot

David
Les
Joined: 09 May 2001
Posts: 2682
PostPosted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:27 am

When everything is working properly you will see enlarged images of the filiment projected on the subject. It sounds like the bulb or other parts are out of alignment.
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