Another battery thread

[jgredline]

Hi Folks...
OK, but this one is a little different....How often can we get a cool gadget for under 15 bucks in this rather expensive camera hobby?...Well, one of the best investments that I have made is purchasing this cool little battery tester...
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...ter_EC741.html
Now what is very cool about this tester is that for example...
I have
2 sets of duracel mah 2650
4 sets of energizer mah 2500

Now I have noticed that two sets of my energizers lasted about 400 Pictures worth while two sets lasted about 150 pictures worth...Well, what it turns out to be, is that there was one week battery in each of the two sets that was only allowing to get 150 Pics...Well after juggling the two week sets I was able to put together 3 good solid sets of mah 2500 and one good set of duracel mah 2650...I should mention that I thought both sets of duracel where dead...

Now back to the energizers...What my nifty little tester is telling me is that my bad/weak batteries are only accepting a 60% charge where my good ones are accepting a 100% charge...So my weak set consist of 4 60% charged batteries and was able to get 227 Photos from the weak set...Not bad for batteries I was about to toss.....

So for the money spent, this was a really great investment..This means that the 12 new batteries I bought with the tester, can not wait until I really need them...

[Frog]

Handy item for stuff that eats batteries.
Thanks for the post.

[freygr]

Just remember unused batteries will die on you. DO NOT let them sit around for a year as they will have to go to the recyclers!

[jgredline]

Just remember unused batteries will die on you. DO NOT let them sit around for a year as they will have to go to the recyclers!

No kidding! Thanks for the info. I did not know that.