Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/12

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Subject: [Leica] Cheap M8 Batteries Going Bad?
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Sun Aug 12 13:31:23 2007
References: <200708121324.l7CDOmaV076662@server1.waverley.reid.org> <46BF5080.40508@concentric.net>

I think my two cheapies are still indistinguishable from the one  
which came with the camera, though I will keep a closer check now you  
have found this.
Frank

On 12 Aug, 2007, at 19:25, Robert D. Baron wrote:

> After initially buying just one extra Leica-branded battery for my  
> M8, a couple of months ago I decided to order four extra third- 
> party batteries (substantially cheaper) from a Hong Kong seller on  
> eBay who a few other LUGers had said they had success with.  I now  
> find three of the four will no longer take a full charge.
>
> Specifically, I put them in the Leica charger and they seem to be  
> charging fully, but when I put them in the camera two of them just  
> show one bar (out of three bars) and another just shows two (the  
> fourth one shows all three, or full).
>
> I have not been using the batteries very often and I can understand  
> if they would run down after a period of non-use, but I'm disturbed  
> they won't now seem to take a full charge at all.
>
> The price ($20 versus around $100) was pretty attractive, but the  
> product may turn out to be worth what I paid for it.
>
> Has anyone else had this sort of experience?
>
> --Bob
>
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