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Rapidly draining battery on new X-S10?

Started May 2, 2021 | Questions thread
Homo erectus
Homo erectus Senior Member • Posts: 1,047
Re: Rapidly draining battery on new X-S10?
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AndyH44 wrote:

No, never had that problem with mine. I can go all day on 1 battery, usually turning off camera between shots, with a couple of short videos thrown in. One thing I would never do is charge a battery in the camera. For one, it takes a looooong time compared to using a charger.

Buy a Nitecore FX1 charger and a quality spare battery. The only way to go.

USB charging is a lot more complicated than it seems like it should be. Not all USB ports deliver the same amount of current. Some are built to charge attached devices very quickly, others are not.

My computer has a USB-C port on the motherboard and when I connect my X-T3 to it the battery charges from empty to full in a few hours which is about the same as using the charger that plugs into a wall socket.

I don't bother to use the wall charger any more as it's a pain to remove the battery grip to get to the battery in the camera body.

Between the super fast battery draw down, the locking up, and the not saving images to the sd card it seems that the OPs camera is almost certainly faulty. I'd just exchange it for a different one.

A single battery should last for about 3 or 4 hours of active shooting. That can be three or four hours of continuous shooting or three or four hours of shooting spread out over a few weeks.

Hope that helps.

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