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Are NP-F970 compatible batteries any good - they all seem to be coming under different names but from the same manufacturer!
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That's not any assurance the one you buy is good. If you can't get or afford the Sony brand, why not buy from a place that accepts exchanges or returns?
Bob
Thanks Bob!
I have returned "100% compatible with NP-F97" batteries from two different sellers because of the following problems:
Tried to charge using my Sony HXR-NX5E charger - don't know whether the small LED in the middle of the battery is supposed to come on at any stage - 6 hours in the charger, the charger light remained on (meaning that the battery has not charged in 6 hours) - battery not even getting warm - tried on my NX5E - shows only 120 minutes much less than my Sony original NP-F570 (which works perfectly well).
I'm beginning to feel that these cheap clones for pricey item like Sony NP-F970 have design/ manufacturing fault and public is wrongly tempted to buy these.
Wondering about others experience regarding this issue!
At the office we get these a lot and about 1 in 10 don't work.
Bob
Wonder if the charging/ no charging issues are because of the 'memory loss' which these cheap clones have!
-> To understand more about the issues with batteries, look back a few years at "laptop battery fires" and for a time it was a real problem. The makers (such as the one under discussion discovered that batteries from other than them could be problematic so they designed in more safeguards as well as not charging batteries that could not be identified.
Some will call that a "nanny mentality" where folk don't take responsibility for their actions. That is, if a non-sony battery went up in flames on a Sony charger, some folk would blame Sony rather than their own action.
The result is that some batteries will fail the ID check and won't charge.
Bob
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