Battery Charger cg580 stays orange..no green light..even when battery fully charged

msfraz — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:48:01 GMT

Re: Battery Charger cg580 stays orange..no green light..even when battery fully charged

TCampbell — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 01:10:54 GMT

The good news is your battery charger is not defective.

The CG-580 charge ONLY has a red light. It will never go green because there is no green light in it.

The CG-580 indicates charge level based on the number of blinks per second.

One blink per second = 50% or lower capacity

Two blinks per second = 50-75% capacity

Three blinks per second = 75-90% capacity

Solid (no longer blinking) means the battery is within 90% of full.

When the light finally goes solid, the battery is not technically full... Canon suggests that if you leave it on the charger for 1 more hour after you see it go solid then the charger will top-off the battery.

Your camera owner's manual will have a section on charging the battery (and it's usually right near the beginning of the manual because it's one of the first things they want you to do when you get a new camera.) It should describe this for you.

Re: Battery Charger cg580 stays orange..no green light..even when battery fully charged

msfraz — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 02:51:46 GMT

Understood. I had another charger which did turn green so I made the mistaken assumption that all chargers did.

Thanks for setting me straight.

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Battery Charger cg580 stays orange..no green light..even when battery fully charged

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