FlyingClayDisc (cameral question)

Young Ns Girl

I have an HP 4.1 Mega Pixel camera. I lost one of the batteries that came with the camera and am having issue with the replacements that I purchased. I pulled out the one original battery that I still have and it clearly states not to recharge. The camera came with a doc that charges the batteries and uploads the pictures to the printer. My new replacements wont hold a charge and after charging and using them once, the charge time doubled. I can't get the batteries to last more than about 6 min. Do you have any suggestions?

Flyin_Paulie

quote:Originally posted by Young Ns Girl
I have an HP 4.1 Mega Pixel camera. I lost one of the batteries that came with the camera and am having issue with the replacements that I purchased. I pulled out the one original battery that I still have and it clearly states not to recharge. The camera came with a doc that charges the batteries and uploads the pictures to the printer. My new replacements wont hold a charge and after charging and using them once, the charge time doubled. I can't get the batteries to last more than about 6 min. Do you have any suggestions?
OMG, Read what you just wrote. Don't try to recharge the batteries if they are not rechargable.

young n dum

can you tell the difference between original and replacement paulie?.......what she's stating is that the camera came with some batteries (these would be the ORIGINAL)and this camera also came with a charging stattion (tell me if I'm going too quick here) she replaced the batteries with new rechargeable batteries (these would be the REPLACEMENT batteries) and it seemed that the charge time doubled and the new batteries won't seem to hold a charge. she took a look at one of the old batteries and noticed for the first time that it states "do not recharge" ( I know, how dumb of her to not think that batteries that came IN a camera that came WITH a charging station were meant to be recharged) and the real concern is that there might have been a possibility that the camera company when initially (I know, a big word, look it up) put the batteries in the camera box they may have screwed up and put non-rechargeable batteries in that have now screwed up the camera in some way to the point that it will no longer hold a charge with rechargeable batteries. get it now? and by the way, she wasn't talking to you in the first place.

SawBonesBob

I'm on my third digital camera. All of the batteries on these were rechargable and had "battery memory" Older "Nicad" or Nickle Cadmium batteries state "do not use until fully charged" AND "do not recharge until nearly depleted." If you continually use these batteries to shoot 5 pictures and then recharge--you will condition or train the battery to have a short life. Newer chargers actually discharge the batteries completely before recharging.........so I'm wondering if the problem might be with your charger. Just an idea.

young n dum

quote:Originally posted by SawBonesBob
I'm on my third digital camera. All of the batteries on these were rechargable and had "battery memory" Older "Nicad" or Nickle Cadmium batteries state "do not use until fully charged" AND "do not recharge until nearly depleted." If you continually use these batteries to shoot 5 pictures and then recharge--you will condition or train the battery to have a short life. Newer chargers actually discharge the batteries completely before recharging.........so I'm wondering if the problem might be with your charger. Just an idea.



now thats a helpful suggestion thanks much.

Young Ns Girl

Thanks for the suggestions, they are appreciated.
The first batteries worked fine and seemed to hold a charge for quite a while although they were not meant to be charged. I misplaced one and decided to purchase my self new batteries with their own charger(package came with charger and 6 batteries). I charged the new batteries according to the instruction that they and the charger came with. The first time I put the new batteries in the camera they died within minutes. I went through all six batteries in under 30 min. I then put them back on the charger(battery charger not the camera doc) and they took twice as long to charge the second time with the same results after putting them in the camera. I only have about 10 pictures in the memory of the camera and none on the 1 Gig memory card. I will dump the memory and try it again. I am worried that the original batteries may have done damage to the camera and now it wont hold a charge no matter what. When I purchased the new batteries they weren't the cheapest, but I definitely could have spent more money to get a better charger/battery set. Do you have any suggestions as far as a brands or types of batteries I should purchase?

mrbruce

Generally it's better to buy the original manufacturers batteries than a aftermarket battery even though they are usually cheaper to buy.
My Nikon batteries last a long time compared to the generic ones I tried.......

He Dog

MrBruce's experience is the same as mine. The after market batteries do not seem to be as good.

agman1999

It sounds like your new batteries are bad. Buy some non-rechargeable batteries, just once, and see how long it takes to kill them. If they die in 6 minutes, your camera is messed up. I would think that if the camera was drawing that much current, it would literally melt down from the heat.

Young Ns Girl

quote:Originally posted by agman1999
It sounds like your new batteries are bad. Buy some non-rechargeable batteries, just once, and see how long it takes to kill them. If they die in 6 minutes, your camera is messed up. I would think that if the camera was drawing that much current, it would literally melt down from the heat.


I did put some non-rechargeable batteries in and they lasted longer, but not by much...about 20 min.

I just don't want to have to spend $200 to get another camera. It was a gift from my in-law, they got me the cameral, doc and printer combo and I love them. On the other hand at Christmas time the same package for the same price came with an HP 5.2 instead of the 4.1 that I have (not sure the upgrade would be noticeable)

Thanks all for your suggestions

n/a

If they are old batteries that have been sitting on the shelf for a while, they could be bad. Batteries do go bad after a while...especially rechargeable batteries. I recently bought two new batteries for an impact driver ($160+) and one of them was bad right out of the packaging. I took it to a repair center and they replaced it and told me it was over 5 years old.

As someone else mentioned, older batteries were known to get a residual build up. If you have these kinds of batteries, you need to completely dump them before recharging and charge them completely before using them again.