Quote Originally Posted by Ronnoco
Popular Photography had a detailed article about 3rd party batteries including an explosion in one of its 2005 issues.

Ronnoco
And did it specifically involve a KM dSLR? Note that I am not denying that this may have happened, just saying that I have never read of it happening to a KM dSLR.

BTW agree about the connector "colours". My 3rd party with silver coloured connectors doesn't seem to work at all. I had always used it together with another one with the bronze coloured connectors in the VC-7D and wondered why that combo did not last as long as two with the bronze connectors. Reading this thread made me do a specific check and I found it is not getting power through to the camera, even though it is actually well charged according to a multi-meter test.