Yikes! Again, could be a feature . . . keeps you warm on those cold
Winter evenings. ;o)
There are some very strange things going on with rechargeable cell
technologies these days. Chuck Norcutt has alerted us to a lot of
them.
I was looking for an additional charger for my C@non Li-Ion batteries
and checked eekbay. Found a merchant offering a Canon brand one for a
very attractive price. While scanning their feedback (which was
almost all positive) I noticed a negative with a comment about
counterfeit chargers. Contacted that buyer who turned out to be an
EE. He bought the same charger at which I was looking and noticed
anomalies in its performance. Took it apart and found a mess. He
took it to C@non to complain and they were very upset because even
though the charger bore their logo, the guts were NOT theirs. Last I
heard they were going after the dealer.
Needless to say, I made sure I bought a genuine C@non one from another source.
FWIW/ScottGee1
On 1/25/07, James King <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> ScottGee1 wrote:
> > Ah. So, it's not a defect, it's a feature!
> >
> > I suppose we should be happy that they're not catching on fire like
> > the batteries. Or melting down like the CCD packaging.
> >
> >
>
> About a week ago I had a uniross charger x1000 and a set of uniross
> 2300Ma AA Nimh batteries overheat and melt on me. Despite the charger
> having over heating protection etc etc... I took what was left of it
> appart and it seeme dto have two heat probes covered in thermal
> conducting compound...
> so perhaps the charger turning into melted toffie is also a feature...
> The batteries where too hot to remove by hand and after two hours
> cooling they where still painful to touch for more than few seconds just
> the thing to keep you warm during cold winter nights.
> James
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