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Batteries dead Half-Eye !Ir.x8Zkt3c
Hel/p/,

my trusty EOS 350 takes only a few pix before showing no battery, and that on two fully charged batteries in the grip. I tried swapping their places and using them each alone, but to no avail...any ideas?
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>> BlackAdder !!bSWRwu/NqzQ
You're sure the batteries aren't dead? Are the contacts all clean? Have you tried it without the grip and putting a battery straight into the camera?
>> Half-Eye !Ir.x8Zkt3c
I will dismount the grip and try again later - going to the harbour, lots of blinky ferries...aon a sidenote, one battery is almost new (half a year old)
>> BlackAdder !!bSWRwu/NqzQ
>>96726

Although half a year is still quite young for it, I know these batteries do suddenly die eventually. Always possible. How old is the other one? It's a different life to the normal sorts of rechargeables. Is the charger reporting them as fully charged when you try them in it? Could be as simple as the contacts needing a good rub as I've had that happen before with all manner of things over the years. A miracle recovery afterwards. That quirk I had with the battery grip and the camera controls a while back was the contacts, I'm sure. A little switch/contact cleaner or pure alcohol (something that won't leave a residue) on a cotton bud is often a good choice for the contacts.

Worth trying it before anything that is likely to cost you.
>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
My D70 battery is still the original from 2004 and its still going strong.

Are any one of the batteries getting warm? perhaps the new one is discharging into the old one?
Happens with rechargeable AA's of mixed brands/type and capacity.
>> BlackAdder !!bSWRwu/NqzQ
>>96730

That's worth investigating. It's that kind of thing that led to me always using batteries in matched sets.
>> sage
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Step by step troubleshooting:
1)clean all contacts (camera body, battery grip outside, battery grip inside, slide frame, battery 1,battery 2)
2)???
3)PROFIT!!!

I found major dust on the three main contacts in the camera body and cleaned it -
took some 40 pix without any problems.
As a punishment for helping me out, i shall now post some of the pix i took testing.

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>> sage
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>> Half-Eye !Ir.x8Zkt3c
>>96787
>>96786

was me, still in sage mode from that deviantart crap thread and not realizing that i uploaded the pix in XBOX HUEG. brb after a much needed reboot and a refill of my White Russian.
>> Half-Eye !Ir.x8Zkt3c
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here, smaller, rip me apart, /p/

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>> Half-Eye !Ir.x8Zkt3c
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