Deceased D800 help please

[elsa hoffmann]

Battery purchased via a friend from B&H. Nikon locally won't want to know my troubles
I am quite happy to wait for one of you to come visit to bring me a new one from there again - 

[David H. Hartman]

Glad the camera is fine!

Dave

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I forgot a battery in my D2H. It ran totally dead. In that state a special charger is needed as there is no residual power for the CPU is the battery so it can't be charged in the normal way. I think I took the camera out and shot a few frames then forgot to take the battery out again. I don't know how many months it took to kill the battery. I normally store batteries out of the camera with a 40-50% charge.

[Bernard Delley]

I am curious, was this an original Nikon battery or a knock-off ?

I feel very lucky with my (original) battery samples, the camera menu only indicates minimal signs of age after several years.

[elsa hoffmann]

Nikon original battery -

[Fons Baerken]

Which battery version of the en-el15 the li-ion 00 or -20?

[elsa hoffmann]

Fons - I dont see anyone that - what I see is :

Li-ion01

[Fons Baerken]

Yes, the 01 my mistake, nikon gave buyers of the d500, same battery, the possibility of changing 01 types for 20 version, as the 01 was discharging too quickly.

[elsa hoffmann]

thats pretty interesting....
No reason why I cant check that with Nikon when I next go there..
I should check all 4 my batteries then

[PedroS]

Did register your Nikon products, including batteries, in their site?

I did, and received a warning to chnage the batteries, 01 to 02, as well warnings to update firmware and the like.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Nikon had a major battery recall with the D500 and older 01-type batteries. All for free. I delivered a stack of old batteries and got new ones still in their factory box.

[elsa hoffmann]

Thanks Bjørn. My blond moment post turned into a useful post in the end hey

[David H. Hartman]

I am curious, was this an original Nikon battery or a knock-off ?

I feel very lucky with my (original) battery samples, the camera menu only indicates minimal signs of age after several years.

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I have read that some devices that report battery health do not consider a discharge to less than 50% and recharge to be a charge cycle. Depending on the device and the way one charges its batteries the battery life indicator may be useless. I'd like to know how various Nikon cameras determine Battery life.

Dave Hartman

[Erik Lund]

Basically the camera is just guessing at the % left, they have no real way of knowing!

[Akira]

The recall is only for D500.  I think it was the compatibility issue.  The free battery exchange service was only offered to D500 owners, which means that the -01 should batteries work without problem on other bodies.

I believe that Elsa's particular battery was faulty.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Nikon Nordic did not limit the replacement of '01' batteries to D500 users only.

I think they replaced at least 8 or 9 old batteries, most of which had seen use on D600 and D800.

The recall might have been issued to known D500 users originally, though. Thus all Elsa needs to do is get herself a nice D500 ...