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Nursing camera batteries?
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wrote: Alkalines are so cheap and readily available, that I don't bother with any rechargable stuff. Also greater capacity so less trouble. except for the fact they won't work. nearly all cameras use a custom lion battery pack. alkaline batteries will not fit, let alone work. |
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Right you are, for cameras.
My comment was for all other uses where ever possible. I should have qualified that. |
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Nursing camera batteries?
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wrote: Right you are, for cameras. My comment was for all other uses where ever possible. I should have qualified that. there is no universal best battery. it depends on the device. |
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Savageduck wrote: Right you are, for cameras. My comment was for all other uses where ever possible. I should have qualified that. rec.photo.digital usually means most of us are talking cameras, lenses, and related stuff, unless things get drawn into vague off topic threads, and flame wars. which rarely happens... |
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Nursing camera batteries?
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newshound wrote: To be fair a lot of flashguns seem to use AA, and I usually use Alkalines in mine. So not totally OT. with nimh, you will likely see faster recycle times (sometimes dramatically so), depending on the flash. |
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Nursing camera batteries?
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 14:57:16 -0500, nospam
wrote: In article , newshound wrote: Before getting the X-T3 plus grip I used to number my batteries so that I used them in order, discharging them fully before changing and then recharging. In a relatively modest session today I took one of the grip batteries into the red, and took a bit out of the camera battery which I recharged via USB after downloading. I've got the grip on charge with its dedicated charger now. Am I likely to shorten the life of batteries by doing this? discharging them fully is a very bad idea, although they're cheap enough to where it's not worth worrying about. I was probably not very clear. I meant removing them when the camera stops working, I'd hope modern cameras stop at an appropriate point. i didn't mean discharge to zero, and they do stop ahead of that. the point is that lion batteries will last longer with many partial discharges than fewer deep discharges. I have recently read, in conjunction with suspected battery problems on a third generation iPad, that it is desirable to discharge to zero once a month or so. The explanation is that it allows battery management system in the iPad to recalibrate itself. The explanatikon was minimal and I didn't understand it. Does it make sense, even if only in terms of iPads? I didn't mean discharging totally against a resistance, as we used to do for NiCad batteries to avoid memory effect. that is also a bad idea and there is no memory effect, at least the way people think of it. the problem was mainly overcharging due to ****ty chargers that didn't detect eoc. I agree they are not a major item of expenditure, it's just the engineer in me that wants to be efficient. don't try to outguess the engineers who designed the camera's power management. use the batteries normally and don't worry about it. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Nursing camera batteries?
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: discharging them fully is a very bad idea, although they're cheap enough to where it's not worth worrying about. I was probably not very clear. I meant removing them when the camera stops working, I'd hope modern cameras stop at an appropriate point. i didn't mean discharge to zero, and they do stop ahead of that. the point is that lion batteries will last longer with many partial discharges than fewer deep discharges. I have recently read, in conjunction with suspected battery problems on a third generation iPad, that it is desirable to discharge to zero once a month or so. The explanation is that it allows battery management system in the iPad to recalibrate itself. The explanatikon was minimal and I didn't understand it. Does it make sense, even if only in terms of iPads? it makes sense. what part did you not understand? however, it doesn't need to be done anywhere near monthly and isn't specific to apple products. it also has nothing to do with what's best for long term battery life. |
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:25:52 -0500, nospam
wrote: In article , Eric Stevens wrote: discharging them fully is a very bad idea, although they're cheap enough to where it's not worth worrying about. I was probably not very clear. I meant removing them when the camera stops working, I'd hope modern cameras stop at an appropriate point. i didn't mean discharge to zero, and they do stop ahead of that. the point is that lion batteries will last longer with many partial discharges than fewer deep discharges. I have recently read, in conjunction with suspected battery problems on a third generation iPad, that it is desirable to discharge to zero once a month or so. The explanation is that it allows battery management system in the iPad to recalibrate itself. The explanatikon was minimal and I didn't understand it. Does it make sense, even if only in terms of iPads? it makes sense. what part did you not understand? The part where it contradicts your advice "discharging them fully is a very bad idea... " however, it doesn't need to be done anywhere near monthly and isn't specific to apple products. it also has nothing to do with what's best for long term battery life. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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