Re: discharging batteries


"ASAAR" <caught@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The way the discharge function works is that the batteries are
individually discharged. A bad battery may be discharged in a few
minutes or seconds, but the remaining good batteries might continue
discharging for hours. When discharging finishes, you'd have no
idea which batteries are good vs. bad. Some battery chargers that
also have a discharge function uses LEDs or an LCD display to show
when each cell has finished discharging. I'm assuming that the
S5500 doesn't display information about each cell while they're
being discharged based on how you asked the question.

That is correct, its just a vertical scrolling screen showing a battery
drain but its repeating itself. There is no battery indication.

Your problem is most likely that the bad set has one bad cell, and
discharging it isn't likely to help it very much. When I've had
that problem, I toss the bad cell but I *do not* replace it with a
new cell. I replace them all. The remaining 3 good cells are then
used in a different device that uses only 3 AA cells. A new battery
set doesn't cost very much. You might want to consider using
alkaline batteries in the S5500 instead of NiMH, since that camera
performs very well with them. It's rated at 250 shots per set of
alkalines if half of them use the flash. If flash isn't needed,
such as for outdoor shots, it should be good for more than 800 or
900 shots. I wait for the local Pathmark or RiteAid to have a
battery sale and then stock up. That way one set of 4 AA alkalines
usually cost less than $1.00, and can keep my Fuji S5100 running a
looong time. It all depends of course, on how many shots you take,
but there are people in this ng that have reported that the
similarly efficient Canon A610/A620 cameras are still using their
first set of 4 AA alkalines despite having been used since late last
year. For that kind of usage, alkalines are a better choice than
rechargeables. Only when very large numbers of pictures are taken
or the flash is heavily used are NiMH batteries preferable.

Have considered using Lithium AA batteries (non rechargable) any these any
good? They reckon the Energizer ones are up to 7x longer power than normal
AA.


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