Non-genuine battery not charging?

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Just had a non-genuine EN-EL3e arrive in the post after the thread on TP.

Put in the camera (D90) the low battery icon flashes. Put the battery in the charger and the 'charging' light flashes for a few seconds, before changing to 'charged'. Still not powering the camera.

I had this issue with Li-ion batteries in my Ryobi power tools - took a while to get them to charge. Any ideas what I should to to get the battery working? Does it need to be manually discharged with a low-draw load like an LED, or should I just send it back - for the next one to do the same?
 
The problem isn't that the battery isn't charging, it's that it isn't compatible with your camera. You tend to find that when Nikon release a new model older non-oem batteries won't work with them - I've got a box full of 3rd party en-el3e batteries from my D80 that worked fine in that, the D70/s and D200, but produce the symptoms you are describing when tried in the D300.

You need either a genuine one (any age) or 3rd party one produced after the introduction of the D90.
 
Had the same problem with an EN-EL3e bought of ebay,did exactly what you describe.Contacted the seller,they sent another one straightaway & it worked fine. Could just be you've got a duff battery?
 
I still don't get why people put non-oem batteries in their cameras - you know it voids the warranty if anything goes wrong as a result...

For the sake of £40-50 price difference you get a longer-lasting battery that is unlikely to cause any problems and is covered under the manufacturer's warranty.
 
I guess for the same reason people fit non OEM parts to their cars when serviced or non OEM parts to pc's when upgrading.........££££

What does a £50 OEM battery do that a £10 doesn't (other than work in this case???) likelihood of an OEM / 3rd party battery failing and causing damage????
 
a genuine battery prob has the same chance of failing as a 3rd party
 
kevykat said:
a genuine battery prob has the same chance of failing as a 3rd party
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Actually no - I've seen a few posts on this forum in the past five years regarding problems with 3rd-party batteries, whereas I've never seen a post regarding a genuine battery failure...

If the OEM battery does fail then any problems will be covered by the manufacturer's warranty.

If the camera-warranty's out of date, then it's not an issue, I suppose - I too fit non-Ford parts to some of my cars, but they're not covered by the warranty either.

They're your cameras, do what you like... I just think it's a false economy...
 
I'm returning the third party battery and have now bought a genuine one. Lesson learned...
 
neil_g said:
the 3rd party batteries for the 20/30/40D are actually better than the orginal canons. higher mah etc.
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This, totally.

I have 4 non genuine batteries that cost me about the same as buying one genuine battery. Each battery powers the camera for longer than the Canon battery my 50D was supplied with.

I've used a mixture of genuine and non genuine batteries since getting my first 10D. I have had only three battery failures in that time. One was a genuine Canon battery after about 18 months and the other two were the non genuine batteries after nearly two years (and within about 2 days of each other!)

Now here's the thing - I have never read a report here of a camera getting killed specifically by a non genuine battery. Sure, the failure rate of non genuine batteries is higher - but they are less than 1/4 the price and I bet I will get more life from 4 of those than 1 canon battery...
 
Arkady said:
I still don't get why people put non-oem batteries in their cameras - you know it voids the warranty if anything goes wrong as a result...

For the sake of £40-50 price difference you get a longer-lasting battery that is unlikely to cause any problems and is covered under the manufacturer's warranty.
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Arkady said:
Actually no - I've seen a few posts on this forum in the past five years regarding problems with 3rd-party batteries, whereas I've never seen a post regarding a genuine battery failure...

If the OEM battery does fail then any problems will be covered by the manufacturer's warranty.

If the camera-warranty's out of date, then it's not an issue, I suppose - I too fit non-Ford parts to some of my cars, but they're not covered by the warranty either.

They're your cameras, do what you like... I just think it's a false economy...
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So, just to clarify...

non-oem battery in £500 camera = bad
non-oem parts in £20,000 car=good

:shrug:
 
Flash In The Pan said:
So, just to clarify...

non-oem battery in £500 camera = bad
non-oem parts in £20,000 car=good

:shrug:
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Thats kind of true, but then the majority of genuine car parts are made by other companies anyway and just rebranded. I used to work in a place that supplied oil filters/air filters etc and there are only a few places that make the filters and then are labelled up differently depending on where they are going.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
So, just to clarify...

non-oem battery in £500 camera = bad
non-oem parts in £20,000 car=good

:shrug:
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Very good if they're better quality than the shi'ity Ford parts...

Full-racing (non-warrantied) suspension courtesy of Eibach; Koni; Hotchkis and UMI as opposed to the crummy (warrantied) Dearborn, Michigan parts made in Mexico...

Most consumables are motorcraft branded and you can find better, non-spec parts of you know what you're doing - for example, a K&N panel filter beats the 'carp' out of the OEM part as anyone who knows anything about cars will testify...
 
Lynton said:
I guess for the same reason people fit non OEM parts to their cars when serviced or non OEM parts to pc's when upgrading.........££££
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The difference in cars (and PCs), is that some non OEM parts are actually better than the manufacturer's own.

Lynton said:
What does a £50 OEM battery do that a £10 doesn't (other than work in this case???) likelihood of an OEM / 3rd party battery failing and causing damage????
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Charge, apparently. :)
 
Arkady said:
Actually no - I've seen a few posts on this forum in the past five years regarding problems with 3rd-party batteries, whereas I've never seen a post regarding a genuine battery failure...

If the OEM battery does fail then any problems will be covered by the manufacturer's warranty.

If the camera-warranty's out of date, then it's not an issue, I suppose - I too fit non-Ford parts to some of my cars, but they're not covered by the warranty either.

They're your cameras, do what you like... I just think it's a false economy...
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I use 3rd party batteries as spares/backups and have never had a problem with them (all from 7dayshop). I HAVE had to return a genuine battery to Nikon though - they recalled a whole batch of them shortly after I bought my D70. That was an EN-EL3 and the nice people at Nikon replaced it with an EN-EL3e which is still going strong in my D700, having also been used for a while in the D200 (as well as the D70). AFAIK, the 3rd party one that was in the D200 when I sold it is still working fine - the buyer hasn't whinged at me about it, anyway (and his wife is the type that would be on the phone to me every 5 minutes if there was any problem!)
 
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