Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/23

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Subject: [Leica] M8 Battery Redux
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Tue Jan 23 05:25:12 2007
References: <20070123080707.CEC70512@ms03.lnh.mail.rcn.net>

Send the charger as well.  I had a similar problem with a shop tool and 
it turned out to be a defective charger.

Jim

larry.k@rcn.com wrote:

>   Uh oh, that sounds familiar, the twenty minute battery failure. I'm 
> sorry to hear 
> about your troubles. I will mention this problem in my letter to Leica. I 
> was not 
> going to send along the battery but now I'm thinking that it might be a 
> better 
> idea to send the battery along in case it is a battery problem and needs 
> to be 
> replaced.
> 
>   Could it be the charger??
> 
>   Trust me, I would have bought a spare battery if I had been able to find 
> on in 
> the last couple of months. I think I will get a battery this week, just as 
> my 
> camera is winging its way back to Germany. LOL. 
> 
>    Regards, 
> 
>   Larry
> 
>   
>   
> 
> -------------
> Well, I got my new battery today.  They were supposed to overnight it for
> delivery Saturday, but it got caught somewhere and he didn't get it here
> till 5 pm.
> 
> Regardless, I popped it in the charger and waited 3 hours.  Yellow light
> still on.  I waited 5 hours.  Yellow light still on.
> 
> Just like last time...  Ugh.
> 
> So I took it out and shot a few pictures.  I managed to find the Set menu
> this time (happy that!) and shot about 20-30 pictures.  Then the camera
> died.
> 
> Pretty much the same as last time.
> 
> So here I am again.  Dead battery.  What must be a dead charger or battery.
> 
> And I'm pissed.
> 
> Tomorrow I'll call Leica USA again and get a complete replacement.  Sigh.
> 
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