07-15-2013, 12:03 PM
I have a bunch of Ray-O-Vac AA alkaline batteries that I bought on sale some time ago, a year or two maybe. Retail packaging. I put them in a Canon camera and after maybe one or two pictures the battery warning message appears and the camera shuts down. I checked the batteries on a cheap Chinese battery tester (no load, I'm sure) and they are well into the "good" range.
Looking on the web, I found posts about my model Canon camera failing with that symptom. I called Canon and they said they don't repair my model camera any more. I went and bought a new camera and loaded batteries into it and had similar results. Yesterday I went to Costco and bought a 40 pack of Duracell alkalines. I put those batteries in and after a few shots, the camera seems to be OK.
I'm wondering whether anyone else has run into an issue like that where a battery tests good with a voltmeter yet fails under load?
I don't know if I'm out of the woods yet - I'll have to snap a bunch more pictures with the new batteries to see if I get the expected number of shots before they fail, but at first glance it seems the batteries were the problem rather than the camera.
Come to think of it, it seems, using those batteries in my MS wireless mouse, I have to replace them more often than usual.
Looking on the web, I found posts about my model Canon camera failing with that symptom. I called Canon and they said they don't repair my model camera any more. I went and bought a new camera and loaded batteries into it and had similar results. Yesterday I went to Costco and bought a 40 pack of Duracell alkalines. I put those batteries in and after a few shots, the camera seems to be OK.
I'm wondering whether anyone else has run into an issue like that where a battery tests good with a voltmeter yet fails under load?
I don't know if I'm out of the woods yet - I'll have to snap a bunch more pictures with the new batteries to see if I get the expected number of shots before they fail, but at first glance it seems the batteries were the problem rather than the camera.
Come to think of it, it seems, using those batteries in my MS wireless mouse, I have to replace them more often than usual.