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Rechargeable AA Batteries for Sony DSC-P50
I just purchased a 2.1 megapixel Sony DSC-P50 point & shoot for everyday
crap. It uses 2 AA batteries or an optional Sony device, NP-FS11. Here is a link to the camera (imaging-resource review): http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/P50/P50P.HTM As you probably know, given that it uses 2 AA batteries it goes through them very quickly. I took about 20 shots with it--maybe 1/2 of them flash--and now it's done. Wow. So now I'm looking into rechargeable options. The Sony NP-FS11 is very high; I looked on eBay for similar items--"equivalents"--and you're talking about $45 for one battery & a charger. Good god! I found this at Radio Shack which has four 1800mAh NiMH AA batteries & a quick charger for $30. Catalog # 23-043 http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...ct%5Fid=23-043 (the # is part of the link) Is this the way you guys would go? Any other cheaper & just as good options (or am I being a tight-wad)? Or have any of you owned this camera before with the Sony NP-FS11 and found it to be so superior you'd do that instead? Personally, I'm inclined towards the AA option not just because it's cheaper (and would include a backup set) but also because it is not propreitary. Tips? LRH |
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Rechargeable AA Batteries for Sony DSC-P50
Larry Harrison asks:
As you probably know, given that it uses 2 AA batteries it goes through them very quickly. I took about 20 shots with it--maybe 1/2 of them flash--and now it's done. Wow. So now I'm looking into rechargeable options. The Sony NP-FS11 is very high; I looked on eBay for similar items--"equivalents"--and you're talking about $45 for one battery & a charger. Good god! I found this at Radio Shack which has four 1800mAh NiMH AA batteries & a quick charger for $30. Catalog # 23-043 http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...ct%5Fid=23-043 http://www.thomas-distributing.com/ check out the 2300 mAh NiMHs. The Ansmann charger is a bit pricey, but is about as good as it gets and is a one-time purchase. Four of the 2300 mAh batteries should do all you need for years to come. Charlie Self "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." Ernest Benn |
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Rechargeable AA Batteries for Sony DSC-P50
Larry Harrison asks:
As you probably know, given that it uses 2 AA batteries it goes through them very quickly. I took about 20 shots with it--maybe 1/2 of them flash--and now it's done. Wow. So now I'm looking into rechargeable options. The Sony NP-FS11 is very high; I looked on eBay for similar items--"equivalents"--and you're talking about $45 for one battery & a charger. Good god! I found this at Radio Shack which has four 1800mAh NiMH AA batteries & a quick charger for $30. Catalog # 23-043 http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...ct%5Fid=23-043 http://www.thomas-distributing.com/ check out the 2300 mAh NiMHs. The Ansmann charger is a bit pricey, but is about as good as it gets and is a one-time purchase. Four of the 2300 mAh batteries should do all you need for years to come. Charlie Self "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." Ernest Benn |
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Rechargeable AA Batteries for Sony DSC-P50
On 2004-07-10, Larry R Harrison Jr wrote:
I found this at Radio Shack which has four 1800mAh NiMH AA batteries & a quick charger for $30. Catalog # 23-043 http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...ct%5Fid=23-043 (the # is part of the link) Is this the way you guys would go? Any other cheaper & just as good options (or am I being a tight-wad)? Radio Shack seems a little bit behind on NiMH AA batteries. It's not hard to find ones with 2000-2200 mAh. (A couple years ago, when I switched all my battery-powered devices except the smoke alarms over the NiMH, 1200 mAh was the norm). The chargers have also been improving. My two year old charger takes about 8 hours to charge a pair of 1200 mAH batteries(the batteries have to be charged in pairs). The charger I bought about a month ago does 1-4 2000 mAH batteries in an hour. Now I see that model has been replaced by one that does it in 30 minutes: URL:http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....97111512&skuId =5835894&type=product There are also special NiMH batteries that can be charged in 15 minutes in appropriate chargers. They say "I-C3". NiMH batteries are no longer the speciality item they were a few years ago. They and their chargers are widely available at places like Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, Wal-Mart, etc., so I'd suggest looking around at a few local places. -- --Tim Smith |
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Rechargeable AA Batteries for Sony DSC-P50
On 2004-07-10, Larry R Harrison Jr wrote:
I found this at Radio Shack which has four 1800mAh NiMH AA batteries & a quick charger for $30. Catalog # 23-043 http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...ct%5Fid=23-043 (the # is part of the link) Is this the way you guys would go? Any other cheaper & just as good options (or am I being a tight-wad)? Radio Shack seems a little bit behind on NiMH AA batteries. It's not hard to find ones with 2000-2200 mAh. (A couple years ago, when I switched all my battery-powered devices except the smoke alarms over the NiMH, 1200 mAh was the norm). The chargers have also been improving. My two year old charger takes about 8 hours to charge a pair of 1200 mAH batteries(the batteries have to be charged in pairs). The charger I bought about a month ago does 1-4 2000 mAH batteries in an hour. Now I see that model has been replaced by one that does it in 30 minutes: URL:http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....97111512&skuId =5835894&type=product There are also special NiMH batteries that can be charged in 15 minutes in appropriate chargers. They say "I-C3". NiMH batteries are no longer the speciality item they were a few years ago. They and their chargers are widely available at places like Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, Wal-Mart, etc., so I'd suggest looking around at a few local places. -- --Tim Smith |
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Rechargeable AA Batteries for Sony DSC-P50
On 2004-07-10, Larry R Harrison Jr wrote:
I found this at Radio Shack which has four 1800mAh NiMH AA batteries & a quick charger for $30. Catalog # 23-043 http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...ct%5Fid=23-043 (the # is part of the link) Is this the way you guys would go? Any other cheaper & just as good options (or am I being a tight-wad)? Radio Shack seems a little bit behind on NiMH AA batteries. It's not hard to find ones with 2000-2200 mAh. (A couple years ago, when I switched all my battery-powered devices except the smoke alarms over the NiMH, 1200 mAh was the norm). The chargers have also been improving. My two year old charger takes about 8 hours to charge a pair of 1200 mAH batteries(the batteries have to be charged in pairs). The charger I bought about a month ago does 1-4 2000 mAH batteries in an hour. Now I see that model has been replaced by one that does it in 30 minutes: URL:http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....97111512&skuId =5835894&type=product There are also special NiMH batteries that can be charged in 15 minutes in appropriate chargers. They say "I-C3". NiMH batteries are no longer the speciality item they were a few years ago. They and their chargers are widely available at places like Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, Wal-Mart, etc., so I'd suggest looking around at a few local places. -- --Tim Smith |
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Rechargeable AA Batteries for Sony DSC-P50
"Tim Smith" wrote in message
link.net... There are also special NiMH batteries that can be charged in 15 minutes in appropriate chargers. They say "I-C3". Those look nice. Wal mart sells a very entry-level device that includes 2 I-C3 (looks like AA sized) batteries and a charger for $28 http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...3A57907%3A4402 Do those last as long as regular NiMH batteries that take 1-2 hours to charge? By "last as long" I don't mean number of rechargers (though if you know that you can share). I mean how long before you have to recharge it. LRH |
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Rechargeable AA Batteries for Sony DSC-P50
"Tim Smith" wrote in message
link.net... There are also special NiMH batteries that can be charged in 15 minutes in appropriate chargers. They say "I-C3". Those look nice. Wal mart sells a very entry-level device that includes 2 I-C3 (looks like AA sized) batteries and a charger for $28 http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...3A57907%3A4402 Do those last as long as regular NiMH batteries that take 1-2 hours to charge? By "last as long" I don't mean number of rechargers (though if you know that you can share). I mean how long before you have to recharge it. LRH |
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Rechargeable AA Batteries for Sony DSC-P50
On 2004-07-10, Larry R Harrison Jr wrote:
There are also special NiMH batteries that can be charged in 15 minutes in appropriate chargers. They say "I-C3". Those look nice. Wal mart sells a very entry-level device that includes 2 I-C3 (looks like AA sized) batteries and a charger for $28 .... Do those last as long as regular NiMH batteries that take 1-2 hours to charge? By "last as long" I don't mean number of rechargers (though if you know that you can share). I mean how long before you have to recharge it. They should. The number you want to look at for a battery is the mAh rating. I believe those batteries are 2000 mAh. "mAh" means "milliamp hours" and is a measure of the total energy the battery can deliver. A 2000 mAh battery could theoretically power a device that needs 1 milliamp for 2000 hours, or a 2000 milliamp device for 1 hour, or a 500 milliamp device for 4 hours, and so on. (Batteries have other limits, such as maximum current, so not all of these combinations are possible--it would not work to try to power a 7200 amp device for 1 second!). The Rayovac I-C3 batteries are NiMH, just like the other common rechargables, so should work basically the same. The only real difference is that they can be charged in 15 minutes in an I-C3 charger. The reason for this is that they put some circuitry in the battery itself to control the charging. I read a review somewhere on the net when these things first came out that said that the I-C3 batteries get *VERY* hot while charging. I don't know how sensitive to heat digital cameras are--does anyone know if it would be a bad idea to put a very hot battery or two into a camera? I haven't tried the I-C3 system yet, because I've found my current 1 hour system is fast enough. It does up to 4 at a time, and cranks out charged batteries faster than anything I have consumes them, so there has been no need for something faster. -- --Tim Smith |
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Rechargeable AA Batteries for Sony DSC-P50
On 2004-07-10, Larry R Harrison Jr wrote:
There are also special NiMH batteries that can be charged in 15 minutes in appropriate chargers. They say "I-C3". Those look nice. Wal mart sells a very entry-level device that includes 2 I-C3 (looks like AA sized) batteries and a charger for $28 .... Do those last as long as regular NiMH batteries that take 1-2 hours to charge? By "last as long" I don't mean number of rechargers (though if you know that you can share). I mean how long before you have to recharge it. They should. The number you want to look at for a battery is the mAh rating. I believe those batteries are 2000 mAh. "mAh" means "milliamp hours" and is a measure of the total energy the battery can deliver. A 2000 mAh battery could theoretically power a device that needs 1 milliamp for 2000 hours, or a 2000 milliamp device for 1 hour, or a 500 milliamp device for 4 hours, and so on. (Batteries have other limits, such as maximum current, so not all of these combinations are possible--it would not work to try to power a 7200 amp device for 1 second!). The Rayovac I-C3 batteries are NiMH, just like the other common rechargables, so should work basically the same. The only real difference is that they can be charged in 15 minutes in an I-C3 charger. The reason for this is that they put some circuitry in the battery itself to control the charging. I read a review somewhere on the net when these things first came out that said that the I-C3 batteries get *VERY* hot while charging. I don't know how sensitive to heat digital cameras are--does anyone know if it would be a bad idea to put a very hot battery or two into a camera? I haven't tried the I-C3 system yet, because I've found my current 1 hour system is fast enough. It does up to 4 at a time, and cranks out charged batteries faster than anything I have consumes them, so there has been no need for something faster. -- --Tim Smith |
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