Battery Recall Warning!!

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fotojack

Senior Member
********RECALL - RECALL - RECALL********
To all Nikon D800/e, D7000 and D600 owners that use a EN-EL15 battery, take them out of your camera asap, these are being recalled if it has a certain serial number
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Determine if your EN-EL15 battery pack is affected.......
This voluntary recall is limited to EN-EL15 battery packs in lots E and F. First, please confirm that “EN-EL15” is printed on the label of your battery pack. Then, please locate the 14-digit lot number beside the recycle symbol, as shown on the photo below.
If the 9th character of the lot number is E or F, your battery is among those being recalled.
If the 9th character of the lot number is any other letter, your battery is not affected by this recall.
Theres a form on this page to get new batteries
http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Service-...-Rechargeable-Li-ion-Battery-Pack-Recall.html
 
Marilynne

Marilynne

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Staff member
Super Mod
Make sure you check D7100 also. Uses the same battery as D7000.

Mine do not have E or F.

Thanks for the heads up.
 
Roy1961

Roy1961

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Contributor
The one in my camera is Ok, will check my spare when I get home, also thanks for the heads up

sent from Pandora via bluehead 2014
 
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DraganDL

Senior Member
Instead of wasting precious working hours to build firmwares that will prevent using the "third party" batteries and grips, Nikon should take better care to avoid making such blunders...
 
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dukatum

Senior Member
Horoscope Fish said:
Damn those cheap, knock-off third-party bat...



Oh. Wait...
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haha, I've never brought a 3rd party battery in fear that they wouldn't even bother making such an announcement, but rather hide it and let the world spin on.

It's good that Nikon have chosen to take this seriously with only 7 incidents recorded worldwide, that's probably less than 3.4 defective parts per million (for you six sigma minds out there)

I agree with @DraganDL sentiment though. I feel like Nikon is spending a lot of money on things like software that isn't making any head room in the market space, and rubbish online storage services. Must have spent millions on these things.
 
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LensWork

Senior Member
This Service Advisory is from two years ago (April 24, 2012) and has been discussed in several threads here previously. The batteries in-question were manufactured for Nikon by Sony.
 
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Camera Fun

Senior Member
I got an email from Nikon about this back in 2012 when the issue came up (kept a copy of the email for future reference). Both of mine are 'D' lot so it wasn't a problem for me.
 
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