topic Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

Imsandy — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 03:11:06 GMT

I’ve been using canon 80d for past 3 years and I’ve been using it occasionally. I haven’t touched my camera for around 2 months recently and I noticed the battery discharged completely. These batteries are from original packing. Again when I charged, the light in charger turns green very quickly and when I put battery in camera it shows only 2 bars. I’ve been trying it again and again but every time I notice it is only partially charged. What does it mean? Does the battery life come to end? What went wrong with batteries?

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

Imsandy — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 03:14:55 GMT

It was new camera when purchased and battery came with the camera if there is question about genuineness

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Waddizzle — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 04:08:01 GMT

@Imsandy wrote:
It was new camera when purchased and battery came with the camera if there is question about genuineness

Batteries do not last forever. Once you begin to use one, the life expectancy can be 3-5 years, or a couple of hundred recharges. But, one would expect to get more use out of a battery than you seem to have experienced. You could also have a bad charger, too.

I suggest that you simply buy a new CANON battery, perhaps even a charger, and move on. Make sure to only buy your battery gear from an authorized Canon dealer, like B&H Photo Video in Manhattan. I strongly discourage buying batteries and chargers from Amazon, much less eBay. There is a lot of counterfeit battery gear out there.

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

Imsandy — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 05:05:05 GMT

The charger and battery are genuine. They came with original kit. I’m using this for 3 years but I might have charged the battery only 30 - 40 times totally as I mentioned I was using the camera only occasionally. Is this all the battery’s quality or I’m missing some important guidelines here?

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

Waddizzle — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:08:52 GMT

@Imsandy wrote:
The charger and battery are genuine. They came with original kit. I’m using this for 3 years but I might have charged the battery only 30 - 40 times totally as I mentioned I was using the camera only occasionally. Is this all the battery’s quality or I’m missing some important guidelines here?

Where did you buy the camera kit? Some dealers are better than others. But, it makes no difference now because any warranty has long since expired.

I cannot say what happened in your case. But, I will point out that storage conditions can affect batteries. They do not like being either too hot or too cold. Make sure there no foreign objects in the battery compartment.

Again, I suggest that you buy a new battery, perhaps a new charger, and move on. At this point it makes little sense to speculate. We do not know what happened, and cannot really determine what happened.

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

ebiggs1 — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:03:08 GMT

"They came with original kit."

OK, that is meaningless if you bought it from a off line retailer that was not a Canon USA dealer. "They came with original kit", what exactly does that mean? Did you get a bunch of stuff with it? They put all sorts of crap together to maximize their profit.

Perhaps it is a real deal Canon USA, if so it has failed. You need to buy a new battery first to see if that fixes your situation. Then a charger if the new battery doesn't help.

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

Imsandy — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:33:34 GMT

Ok I’ll try the new battery and/or charger thing. Thank you all for suggestions.

Btw, I purchased the camera and battery kit from Costco USA. I hope they should be genuine.

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Waddizzle — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:38:54 GMT

@Imsandy wrote:
Ok I’ll try the new battery and/or charger thing. Thank you all for suggestions.

Btw, I purchased the camera and battery kit from Costco USA. I hope they should be genuine.

Not my first choice. I have found that electronic gear at those big box stores is frequently in an open box condition.

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ebiggs1 — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:10:10 GMT

"I purchased the camera and battery kit from Costco USA"

Probably OK. It had a Canon USA warranty card included? That's all that is important as it proves it is a real deal Canon USA camera. Canon support number is 1 (800) 652-2666

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

wq9nsc — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:36:04 GMT

Lithium Ion batteries are in many ways less "picky" than some other rechargeable battery technologies but they have a definite lifespan which can easily be shortened by improper usage and care. When storing for long periods of time you want the charge to be at around 50% and if unused for a long period of time the charge should be brought back up to the 50% range as continuing maintenance during long periods of storage. Consistently putting the battery into storage when charged to 70% or greater OR 30% or less will significantly reduce its usable lifespan.

Here is a good "plain English" guideline to Lithium Ion battery operation from leading test and measurements company Tektronix. If the link violates forum guidelines and is removed then do a google search for: Newark Tektronix lithium ion pdf and you will get the proper result.

https://www.newark.com/pdfs/techarticles/tektronix/LIBMG.pdf

Rodger

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

Waddizzle — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 18:03:14 GMT

@wq9nsc wrote:

.... leading test and measurements company Tektronix.

Tektronix. Now that name is a blast from the distant past. Ever use one of their space heaters?

Seriously, a couple of these old oscilloscopes could heat a room.

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

wq9nsc — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 20:52:08 GMT

Wadizzle,

I own and use several different Tektronix scopes and my least "green" one is a Type 555 true dual beam scope with dual plug in vertical channels and dual plug in time bases. The power supply sits on the bottom of the scopemobile cart and both are loaded with vacuum tubes and cooled by separate very large fans. In operation the 555 draws close to one kilowatt. It is still in perfect working order and like other 500 series lab scopes it is reliable and easy to maintain although adjusting the lumped constant delay line is a tedious process.

My primary bench scope is a pair of somewhat newer Tektronix 7854 scopes although I do also have a smaller but less capable new Tektronix LCD screen scope that is convenient but there are times when I need the versatility of the multiple plug-ins which provide so much versatility with the older models.

Nobody wrote better technical manuals that the folks in Beaverton and Tektronix documentation puts most other manuals to shame in terms of content, organization, and overall clarity. The construction quality of the older scopes was also a thing of beauty with their ceramic strips with silver contact points and in the interior photo of the 555 you can see the roll of special silver bearing solder that Tektronix shipped inside of each of their instruments. It was truly a world class organization from design through manufacturing and customer followup.

Rodger

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

CaliforniaDream — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:34:31 GMT

I use to use that "HOG" every day at work (45 years ago). Use to work on "Big Iron" computers. What fun.

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

ChrisPBacon — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:40:50 GMT

Excellent post. Had cheap copies of Canon LP-E6N sent to me wen I ordered Canon batteries, and they died in months. Help yourself in the future: get a silver Sharpie marker and write the date you purchased the batteries on each: oldest are least reliable.

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ChrisPBacon — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 21:04:10 GMT

@Waddizzle wrote:

Make sure to only buy your battery gear from an authorized Canon dealer, like B&H Photo Video in Manhattan.`

I unwisely asked to be sent two more LP-E6N batteries when I placed an order for B&H. They sent me two Watson LP-E6N batteries, both of which died quickly as they’re lousy batteries.

i should have specified Canon LP-E6N batteries.

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RobertTheFat — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 21:53:37 GMT

@ChrisPBacon wrote:

@Waddizzle wrote:
Make sure to only buy your battery gear from an authorized Canon dealer, like B&H Photo Video in Manhattan.`

I unwisely asked to be sent two more LP-E6N batteries when I placed an order for B&H. They sent me two Watson LP-E6N batteries, both of which died quickly as they’re lousy batteries.

i should have specified Canon LP-E6N batteries.

If you didn't want the Watson batteries, why didn't you just send them back insted of using them? B&H is very good about allowing returns.

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ebiggs1 — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:52:15 GMT

"...Watson LP-E6N batteries, ... they’re lousy batteries."

Watson is probably the best of the lousy third world batteries.

Re: Canon 80D LP-E6N battery not fully charging

wq9nsc — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 15:12:42 GMT

I have never tried Watson batteries but I did buy a Watson charger for my Canon XF-400 camcorder batteries instead of waiting MANY hours for them to charge mounted to the camcorder which is the Canon stock solution. In the year that I have had it, the Watson charger has worked well without fail and I used its ability to charge from its 12 volt adapter for the first time last weekend at a soccer tournament and that also worked well.

The XF-400 didn't cost as much as my EOS 1 series bodies but they really should have included a decent charger with the camcorder but I guess they are doing like every other company in cutting costs when possible. My EOS 1D Mark II came from the factory with the power adapter and DC coupler unlike my 1DX and 1DX II bodies...

But I am sticking with OEM Canon batteries because those are well worth the extra cost to me.

Rodger