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Don Kondra

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Nikon EN-EL15A Battery issue. Brand new fully charged shows 84% in D500 and 93% in D7200 ?
Anyone else noticed any discrepancies/issues with the D500 or the A series batteries ?
Perhaps I just got what I paid for, $27 from China !

Cheers, Don
 
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pforsell

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Don Kondra said:
Nikon EN-EL15A Battery issue. Brand new fully charged shows 84% in D500 and 93% in D7200 ?
Anyone else noticed any discrepancies/issues with the D500 or the A series batteries ?
Perhaps I just got what I paid for, $27 from China !

Cheers, Don
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I think that you have been sold a forged battery. If it otherwise works and doesn't get hot during operation, it's probably safe. It most likely won't last very long though.

All the Nikon batteries that I own always show full 100 % after charging. Even very old ones that display "4" meaning end of life. They just deplete quickly.

I think that "honest" 3rd party batteries sold under their own brands are usually okay and very good, but fake/forged ones can be anything. Probably better to avoid in the future. If a $27 battery sets your camera on fire the savings were not worth it.
 
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Woodyg3

Woodyg3

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With my D500, Nikon batteries fresh out the charger sometimes read 95%. Non-Nikon batteries, though, are a crap shoot. They generally don't hold a charge as well, and do not last anywhere nearly as long as a real Nikon battery. For $27 I am pretty sure yours are non-Nikon. There are a lot of counterfeits out there.
 
BackdoorArts

BackdoorArts

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The D500 wouldn't even light up with 3rd party batteries when I got my first when it was released. They did a battery exchange for all owners because of it (somewhere on here is a graph of all the various percentages of a battery in a D500 and the same battery in another Nikon). As was said, you often get what you pay for. The original EL-15's would be dead in the D500 and register over 30% in any other camera. Even the newer ones when they are dead will give me 50-70 photos in my D750. It's sucks power so buy accordingly.
 
mikeee

mikeee

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D7500 doesn't light up with 3rd party batteries either.. My D7100 is very erratic with the 3rd party one I bought and hardly use..
An EN-El15A in my D7500 will show 97-100% fresh out of the charger.
 
Danno_RIP

Danno_RIP

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My D7200 ran well on Wasabi batteries in fact they worked as well as Nikon batteries. But the Z6 only works well on the Nikon batteries and I recently got a bad one Nikon battery. I would be rolling along taking photos and I would get a message saying the shutter was deactivated because the battery needed to be changed and a second later it was OK and the battery was freshly charged. Seemed to be most common when I was using my speed light or trigger for off camera flash. I am one of those guys that likes to have a lot of batteries so it took a bit of time to confirm that I had only one bad battery.

It was a strange issue, but when I replaced the Nikon battery the problem went with it. I still need to contact Nikon service and let them know what I found. I am interested in seeing if they will give me a new battery.
 
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Bikerbrent_RIP

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While I only use Nikon brand batteries (am am careful of counterfeits), it appears that Nikon has done a great job with their newer cameras in rejecting third party batteries (and apparently at times even rejecting Nikon batteries).
 
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