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T2i Battery switch repair?

Started Dec 7, 2013 | Questions thread
dwalby Veteran Member • Posts: 5,895
Re: simple test

NC Doug wrote:

dwalby wrote:

pull your memory card out and lay it flat on the battery door, and align it with the protrusion that depresses the switch. The protrusion should be at least flush with the top of the card, and probably extend just a hair (literally) beyond it. In other words, if your protrusion isn't at least as long as the thickness of a SD card, then that could be your problem. If that's the case then replacing the battery door is probably a fairly minor and cheap proposition.

If you have to replace the switch, then paying Canon to do it is probably not cost effective, and trying to do it yourself would require getting access to a service manual to figure out how to remove it without tearing the whole camera apart.

I checked the protrusion, height seems right. Now it won't even power up with me probing at the switch. I may see if I can disassemble, it's not much good the way it is.

sorry to hear that.  I guess you just need to get a small phillips screwdriver and start removing body panels until the switch is exposed.

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