Nikon Battery

RayLarsonRayLarson Registered Users Posts: 199 Major grins
edited June 30, 2008 in Accessories
I have a D80 about 1 1/2 years old with a multi-battery grip. I have 2 batteries and just recently one of them will not charge past 17%. There is very little use on either of these batteries and even it's the one that came with the camera I would think it would last a little longer that 1 1/2 years. Anyone else having this issue? I have ordered a replacement but still can't understand why this one is doing this. They both are original nikon batteries.:scratch
Ray Larson
Nikon D80, D300, D700 all gripped, Nikkor 50 f1.8 Nikkor 18-200 VR Nikkor 70-200 VR f2.8 Nikkor 28-300 VR, Sigma 50-150 f2.8 Sigma 80-400 OS Sigma 150-500 OS Nikon SB600

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  • nightowlcatnightowlcat Registered Users Posts: 188 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2008
    Ray, Leave it on the charger for a day and see if it kicks up any on the meter, before you give up on it. Then get it recycled at BatteriesPlus or some other place that does recycling of these, if it doesn't improve.
  • RayLarsonRayLarson Registered Users Posts: 199 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2008
    nightowlcat wrote:
    Ray, Leave it on the charger for a day and see if it kicks up any on the meter, before you give up on it. Then get it recycled at BatteriesPlus or some other place that does recycling of these, if it doesn't improve.

    I ran it on the charger overnight and it only got to 17% but shows as new on the battery meter in the camera. There can't be more than 1000 clicks on this battery. Guess I just got a bad one. I have ordered a replacement and will recycle this one when it comes in. Nothing lasts forever but this one didn't make it to puberty. ne_nau.gif
    Ray Larson
    Nikon D80, D300, D700 all gripped, Nikkor 50 f1.8 Nikkor 18-200 VR Nikkor 70-200 VR f2.8 Nikkor 28-300 VR, Sigma 50-150 f2.8 Sigma 80-400 OS Sigma 150-500 OS Nikon SB600
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,939 moderator
    edited May 28, 2008
    RayLarson wrote:
    I ran it on the charger overnight and it only got to 17% but shows as new on the battery meter in the camera. There can't be more than 1000 clicks on this battery. Guess I just got a bad one. I have ordered a replacement and will recycle this one when it comes in. Nothing lasts forever but this one didn't make it to puberty. ne_nau.gif

    If you make a habit of leaving batteries on the charger or not letting them
    run all the way down, you will eventually develop a "memory" in some of
    them.

    Best to use them & charge when they've run down completely.
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  • InsuredDisasterInsuredDisaster Registered Users Posts: 1,132 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2008
    I seem to recall reading somewhere that Nikon suggested completely discharging your batteries if you weren't using them for a while. Did you do that? Granted, on my D70 it would take 4-600 shots or more to run a battery down so I'm not sure how practical that would be. D300 takes about 600-800+ on a battery so perhaps the D80 takes around that many. I'm surprised Nikon's charger does not have a discharge function.
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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2008
    I don't think lithium ion batteries have any kind of memory issues. That's a left-over fear from early ni-cads
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  • jonh68jonh68 Registered Users Posts: 2,711 Major grins
    edited June 15, 2008
    http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm

    Lithiums prefer partial charges. I think it would be safe to charge after a day of shooting regardless of how much life is left.
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  • SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited June 15, 2008
    jonh68 wrote:
    Lithiums prefer partial charges. I think it would be safe to charge after a day of shooting regardless of how much life is left.
    Thanks for that link. thumb.gif
  • davidweaverdavidweaver Registered Users Posts: 681 Major grins
    edited June 26, 2008
    Try to keep everything charged up. Do an initial charge or 2.5-3 hours on new ones. I top off all my batteries weekly. I had an EN-EL3e go bad on me last week. Oh well. It happens. There are some good aftermarket batteries but beware of some of the HK ones. I have a couple counterfeit ones and they weight less than the OEM batterym, they die w/o notice and won't work in the D300s, but work fine in the D200s.

    If anyone wants one or 2 of the old en-el3 batteries please PM me and I'll send then to you. (only D70). I'll try to toss in the old charger too if I can find it.

    Cheers,
    David
  • VycorVycor Registered Users Posts: 386 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2008
    400+ shots so far on my D300, its about 75% down.

    Where are you gusy seenig a percentage or battery meter? My charger has an LED light, thats it
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,939 moderator
    edited June 30, 2008
    Vycor wrote:
    400+ shots so far on my D300, its about 75% down.

    Where are you gusy seenig a percentage or battery meter? My charger has an LED light, thats it

    There are two ways to determine battery usage. The camera and the charger. The camera has a usage meter that shows the remaining charge and the charger shows percentage charged.
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