mike_s
Contributor
So about a year ago I bought some AA 2300mAh NiMH batteries and a charger for camera and strobe.
I've been having some issues with batteries not lasting long and I think I've identified the "suspected" bad battery that was causing the problem.
However, I'd like to be able to test batteries batteries before hitting the water due to having some batteries "die" during a dive. (which I think was charged with the suspect bad battery).
So has anyone bought any "good" battery testers? and have reccomendations?
I went to Radioshack and bought one of thiers, but it's pretty wimpy and only shows you "green" for good and "red" for bad. Unfortunately camera batteries need more life to them than flashlight, etc batteries and even batteries that the camera says are "low charge" show up as green/good in the RadioShack tester.
I asked ScubaLuke about this and he found this tester and has ordered one for "testing/evaluation". It's nice feature is that it "load tests" the batteries.
http://www.thomas-distributing.com/zts-mini-mbt-battery-tester.htm
I was just wondering what other folks might be doing to test their batteries?
Thanks for any information.
-Mike.
I've been having some issues with batteries not lasting long and I think I've identified the "suspected" bad battery that was causing the problem.
However, I'd like to be able to test batteries batteries before hitting the water due to having some batteries "die" during a dive. (which I think was charged with the suspect bad battery).
So has anyone bought any "good" battery testers? and have reccomendations?
I went to Radioshack and bought one of thiers, but it's pretty wimpy and only shows you "green" for good and "red" for bad. Unfortunately camera batteries need more life to them than flashlight, etc batteries and even batteries that the camera says are "low charge" show up as green/good in the RadioShack tester.
I asked ScubaLuke about this and he found this tester and has ordered one for "testing/evaluation". It's nice feature is that it "load tests" the batteries.
http://www.thomas-distributing.com/zts-mini-mbt-battery-tester.htm
I was just wondering what other folks might be doing to test their batteries?
Thanks for any information.
-Mike.