I suspect the supplier was Sony. Sony had some serious Li-ion battery
QC problems for a while including setting fire to various devices
including a number of Apple laptops. Li-ion fires are quite nasty
because you can't put them out.
Chuck Norcutt
Winsor Crosby wrote:
> When I remember the Nikon battery recall it was kind of reassuring
> that Nikon stood behind their batteries as well as their cameras.
> Somehow there was no news report on their supplier recalling batteries
> or companies using the same supplier recalling batteries. If your
> third party battery overheats and melts some plastic or worse on your
> very expensive camera will the camera manufacturer stand behind it?
> People will buy third party insurance policies for their cameras but
> save $20 on a look alike battery. Makes no sense to me at all. Cheap
> insurance.
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, CA
> USA
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Roger Key wrote:
>
>> There was someone who tested BLM-1 look-alike batteries, and found
>> that
>> there were a lot of potentially dangerous ones. As far as I recall,
>> the best
>> battery (better than the original!) was a Uniross. That is what I
>> use now as
>> backup
>
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