[Leica] Leica m10 third party battery?

[Frank Filippone]

All camera ( and other ) batteries are made up of smaller batteries, wired to produce the required voltage, inside the case.  Nikon etc ask for a specific battery voltage, storage capacity ( mAH or milli ampere hours) and case..... The guts may be the same as another battery, but the case may be different.Having said that, making up a new case is trivial on a 3D printer, if you have all the specs, and connector contacts.  You could conceivably figure all of that out.You go get the 3D printer to do its thing.... Now you have a proper case for your M10 battery.Here is the area I strongly suggest against.... You must open up the old battery to extract its contents..... If you do that wrong and nick a battery cell inside, you have a leaky LITHIUM battery, a mess on your hands, and maybe a fire.Is that worth it?
Go buy a Leica battery.....   Less trouble.After all, are you a photographer making money taking pictures or a electronics technician?

Frank Filippone Red735i at verizon.net
 On Wednesday, April 24, 2019, kyle cassidy via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

Hi folks!

Wondering if anybody's found a third party option for the BS-SCL5 M10
battery. It seems likely to be just a repackaging of one of the Lumix
batteries (possibly the BLC12MX). While the Leica Q battery I believe is
merely a rebranding of the Panasonic DMW_BLC12, on the M10 battery it looks
like they've moved the contacts about 3mm so you can't use a panasonic
battery out of the box (though it seems like an excellent opportunity to
use the 3d printer at the library and make a new housing for a battery).
Thoughts or experiences on this?

Kyle

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