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| Battery Experts needed | |
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| Topic Started: Aug 24 2015, 03:12 AM (1,821 Views) | |
| FuzzyO | Aug 25 2015, 10:21 AM Post #16 |
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Ummm, Darcie, I think what that cable is charging is the battery in your camera. |
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| wildie | Aug 25 2015, 01:46 PM Post #17 |
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How about fish? battered any of that lately? |
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| Delphi51 | Aug 25 2015, 01:56 PM Post #18 |
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The built in, non-replaceable battery is another problem affecting all the Apple products. Apple expects customers to take their phones and laptops to an Apple Store for battery replacement - or just buy a new one. It is possible to replace the batteries thanks to a company called iFixIt which sells the batteries and provides do it yourself instructions which are not for the faint at heart. I have a neat Bluetooth wireless headphone whose battery died and that means it is trash. |
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| Darcie | Aug 25 2015, 02:02 PM Post #19 |
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I know that, but I do not have to replace the batteries as I did in my old camera. I guess when it finally dies I will go to the store and have them install a new one. Forgot to say that my granddaughter gave it to me as a present 4 years ago, she has the same camera and it is 6 years old and she has yet to have to replace anything. Edited by Darcie, Aug 25 2015, 02:03 PM.
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| Trotsky | Aug 26 2015, 02:01 AM Post #20 |
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Oh lucky you. WHen the battery fails, as they all do, you get to throw out the CAMERA. (Darcie, don't lose the instruction manual.) |
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| Darcie | Aug 26 2015, 02:25 AM Post #21 |
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At my age the probability that the camera will outlast me is a good possibility. On the other hand I may become incapable of using it. oooh 02 biggrin 04 |
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| Trotsky | Aug 26 2015, 05:01 AM Post #22 |
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My reading vision is not good but not awful either. But I am having a LOT of trouble with the tiny icons on my camera screen, especially in bright daylight. |
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| Delphi51 | Aug 26 2015, 09:59 AM Post #23 |
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Me, too. I just don't bother with camera settings anymore. Just press the button and if necessary adjust the photo later on the computer. |
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| Trotsky | Aug 31 2015, 02:46 AM Post #24 |
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Alas, there is nothing you can do with a close up that is out of focus once the picture is snapped. |
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| Delphi51 | Aug 31 2015, 08:39 AM Post #25 |
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Are you still allowed to focus your camera? Wow! |
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| Trotsky | Sep 1 2015, 01:07 AM Post #26 |
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Only to the point of choosing closeup (6 inches...a flower icon) or infinity (mountain icon.) Both icons are tiny and hard to differentiate without reading glasses which I need only to READ...distance vision is perfect. I don't quite know HOW the camera makes the adjustment. I SLAVER over those beautiful digital SLR cameras with long ADJUSTABLE focal length lenses...like my 35 mm cameras but I am NOT going to drop $1000 on a new camera until my handy dandy Canon A10 gives up the ghost...probably years after I do. Edited by Trotsky, Sep 1 2015, 01:08 AM.
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| campy | Nov 3 2015, 04:57 PM Post #27 |
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This is for Trotsky. For what it is worth. I had some rechargeable batteries from the Dollar Store. They were no longer able to hold their charge for very long. Could not power my Blood Pressure Monitor even after charging. By accident I came across a video on You Tube claiming that you should put those batteries in a plastic bag and put them in the freezer overnight and then let them thaw out at room temperature. I didn't believe it but I said what the heck give it a try. It worked. Those batteries bounced right back. I don't know the theory. Maybe realigns the crystals or something. I haven't tried my old cell phone battery which costs 30 dollars to replace but I will. In fact I went and got a new phone instead because on a contract I got a new phone and they let me keep the old one. And there was no substantial increase in the contract. Only 5 dollars a month more from the old contract and I get to keep the new phone after two years. |
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| Delphi51 | Nov 3 2015, 05:27 PM Post #28 |
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Some rechargeable batteries present with zero volts and do not draw any current from a charger. I have had good success with connecting them to a variable power supply and turning up the voltage until a 100 to 200 ma is drawn. I leave it go for an hour or two, then charge normally in a charger. Over on the RV forum I learned that chronically undercharged deep cycle and auto batteries have crystals formed on the plates which gives them a very high internal resistance. One treatment that seems to help is applying about 16 volts to a 12 volt battery. Carefully. I bought a Black & Decker charger with this feature on sale and used it on an old battery with some success. Edited by Delphi51, Nov 3 2015, 06:07 PM.
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| campy | Nov 3 2015, 11:54 PM Post #29 |
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I put a voltage meter on the batteries. They show a charge of 1.2 volts but can't push a device other than a flashlight. After freezing the voltage ramps up to 1.4 volts. |
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| campy | Nov 3 2015, 11:58 PM Post #30 |
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I'm finding that I rarely use my old Fuji camera anymore. I use my cell phone camera all the time instead. |
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