topic Re: How to recharge battery w/o taking it out of T6s? in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

How to recharge battery w/o taking it out of T6s?

hKuenph — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 01:40:26 GMT

Camery : Canon EOS T6s

My PC : Windows 10 Home 64b. 1803

Question: How to recharge the battery of T6s without taking it out of the camery?

The camera has been connected to my PC by its micro USB cord. I have not yet found any option for recharging the battery or any indication on the camera body.

Thank you.

Kuen

Re: How to recharge battery w/o taking it out of T6s?

kvbarkley — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 02:10:23 GMT

You can't. The USB cable cannot charge the battery or even power the camera while it is plugged in.

Re: How to recharge battery w/o taking it out of T6s?

hKuenph — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 02:55:15 GMT

Thank you, kvbarkley.

Does it mean that the battery must be taken out of the camera for recharging?

Thanks.

Kuen

Re: How to recharge battery w/o taking it out of T6s?

Tronhard — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 04:55:25 GMT

Have you read the manual? It's pretty clearly explained...

Re: How to recharge battery w/o taking it out of T6s?

Waddizzle — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 06:52:39 GMT

@kvbarkley wrote:
You can't. The USB cable cannot charge the battery or even power the camera while it is plugged in.

Re: How to recharge battery w/o taking it out of T6s?

kvbarkley — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:20:19 GMT

Yes, you must take the battery out and use an external charger. One reason is that Canon uses relatively high voltage batteries - my T6S uses the 7.2 Volt LP-E17 - which is higher than the 5 V USB supplies. This makes it impractical to charge the battery directly from USB*. My Olympus TG-5, on the other hand, uses a 3.6 V battery so that it can be charged from USB, and in fact is the standard way to do it.

* Yes, I know all about step-up DC-DC converters, but to charge the relatively large capacity Canon batteries in a decent amount of time would take too much current from the USB.

Re: How to recharge battery w/o taking it out of T6s?

hKuenph — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:30:31 GMT

Thank you, Kvbarkley.

Really appreciate the explanations why Canon does not recharge the battery directly with it in the camera body. I have been using a Sony a7II since it was out. It recharges the battery diredtly from my PC or laptop whenever I download the images. Convenient but Sony's battery is not so strong as Canon's.

Thank you again. Really appreciate.

Kuen

Re: How to recharge battery w/o taking it out of T6s?

ebiggs1 — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:09:22 GMT

"Have you read the manual? It's pretty clearly explained..."

Who buys a nice camera and doesn't even pop the manual. This is right in the front of the manual. There is going to be a whole host of other things you won't know how to do I have a feeling.