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R7 batteries

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Ephemeris
Ephemeris Senior Member • Posts: 1,186
Re: R7 batteries

Distinctly Average wrote:

Steven Blackwood wrote:

The long and short of it is, if you want to get the most out of your cameras spec, you will need to use genuine Canon batteries and the more recent ones, also at more than half-charged. This is not to say that the third party batteries won’t work well but that only OEM batteries offer any sort of guarantees.

In this case, OEM batteries don’t give the best results. Granted, they are an old version of the battery but it was quite surprising. While they have the same voltage I can only assume they are less capable under load of supplying adequate current.

Maybe a detection that it's not the newer style battery. I'm not sure how they know what the battery is but it will be useful for them to know so that the charging profile is correctly set.

In power tool batteries we do a few things, one is change a resistance that the tool can measure and another is serial data from a chip talking to the tool or charger.

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