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Re: [OM] Third party batteries for OM-D

Subject: Re: [OM] Third party batteries for OM-D
From: Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:42:50 +0200
Whatever the camera brand I used (Panas-Oliess-Nikon,Fujizzz), I’ve always 
bought third party batteries, none has failed so far. I wrote so far.
Hope this helps
Philippe

> Le 16 oct. 2017 à 17:19, Mike Bloor <admin@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
> Frank,
> 
> Thanks for the advice.
> 
> Mike
> 
> At 14:12 16/10/2017, you wrote:
>> This German guy <http://pen-and-tell.blogspot.nl/search?q=bln-1> (google
>> translate posts with bln-1
>> <https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=nl&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpen-and-tell.blogspot.nl%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dbln-1>)
>> has analysed many third party batteries, and found none to be competing in
>> quality with the original ones.
>> 
>> The Olympus ones have more sophisticated electronics to balance the two
>> cells which are in a BLN-1, optimizing capacity and longevity. If the third
>> party battery is 'coded' to work with the Olympus charger, it only means it
>> has a chip to fake the charger into believing that the battery is actually
>> quite worn, thus limiting its charge (actually a safety feature, since the
>> actual used inferior cells would probably be set on fire one day due to the
>> higher current for which the bln-1 is designed).
>> 
>> On several occasions he found the cells used of a much lower capacity then
>> printed on the label. Price of the third party ones was not a convincing
>> indication for quality as well...
>> 
>> The question whether that is worth the price difference is yours to answer.
>> 
>> Good luck!
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