5050 not holding charge?

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Hi,

Went out for a dive today and my freshly charged batteries only lasted for about 10min :11: Not happy Jan! The batteries are not old and have only been charged a handful of times. Does anyone have any experience with a 5050 draining batteries quickly. Normally I can get two dives easily out of these batteries. Also I had the strobe on today, but that wouldn't drain the battery of the 5050 would it.

Thanks,
mel :)
 
No, the strobe wouldn't matter. Yes, I've had it happen before.

Turns out it wasn't the 5050 at all. It was the batteries.

- one dead or dying battery will kill the performance of all four, so check each one.
- check your charger: ensure all eight contact points (in a four battery charger) are actually touching); check they are inserted properly; check for a switch to charge 2 or 4...this is what happened to me. It was set for 2 batteries only...didn't even realise it had a switch.

Test on land with a completely different set of batteries, preferably charged from a different charger. If it still happens you may have a camera problem.
 
It is very unlikely this is a camera problem, if it was the camera it would be getting very hot as the energy would have to go somewhere. Most likely you got a bad set of batteries or have a bad charger. Try a different set of batteries and a different charger until you find the problem. And like alcina said, it may have been as simple as one or more of the cells did not get a good charge for some reason.
 
Yeah, I'd have to agree with the above..
When I first got recharges I got the SunPak Batterys... worthless after the 4th or 5th recharge... 10min into the dive, camera acted funny... finally figured out it was the batteries...
Here's a page that rates them.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/ACCS/BATTS/BATTS.HTM

Just get the MaHa and their rechargers and eliminate that problem.. heheh.. so you go on to the next one eh??

Thomas Distrib..
http://thomas-distributing.com/nimh_battery_chargers.htm


Hope that helps..
 
Yup, same here. The batteries that originally came with the camera fizzled out pretty quick. I changed the batteries and the charger and now everything is good again :D

For your next dive try a new set.

Good Luck,
Lisa
 
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