Paul wrote:
Stay away from hamfest/flea market batteries. They are almost always bad and nothing really revives them. Pay the money and make sure you get a recent build date.
Also, know that there is a huge range of quality represented by the batteries available on the market. Unfortunately, almost all batteries these days come out of just a few factories in China. These manufacturers are capable of designing and constructing first-quality products, but the batteries that are commonly available in the US are made for brands that ask for the cheapest batteries possible. So you need to find a brand that aims higher and actually does its own quality control.
And do not be misled by what has become an almost universal bait-and-switch technique: You find a link that says "GENUINE [brand] battery!!" and when you follow the link the page says "[BRAND] battery" prominently at the top but when you scroll down you find in tiny print that the battery for sale is "compatible with GENUINE [BRAND] battery" or is a "GENUINE [BRAND] replacement battery" and is actually the cheapest, most awful POS battery made.
Panasonic SLAs are by far the best I've used (even the ones made in China), but I haven't found any for sale in the US for a few years now. If anybody knows of a source, please share.
Best regards, Charles _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
