@diverhank wrote:
@BrotherBear wrote:
Yes! different battery does not help. Thanks!
If the newer remotes were knockoffs, you might be facing the problem with the battery not making the contact. Try the next larger battery size...
I don't have my equipment with me at the moment. I'll give you more info on the batteries after I get home tonight but I accidentally installed a larger battery than specified and my remote became very reliable. Turned out the specified battery was too small and half of time failed to make contact.
Coin battery model numbers are based on the physical size of the battery.
An RC-6 takes a CR2032 battery.
"CR2032" means it's a Lithium battery, Round, with a 20mm diameter, and 3.2mm thick.
The leading letter "C" denotes a "Lithium" battery... which is confusing because a leading letter "L" denotes "Alkaline" batteries.
The "R" simply means it's a "round" battery
The number "20" means it has a diamter of 20mm (±.25mm tolerance)
The number "32" means it is 3.2mm thick.
But I'm wondering where you got these batteries. I have had major problems with some sources. There are loads and loads of fake batteries sold on Amazon.com (I would venture to guess that most batteries are fake if they are sold by an Amazon marketplace merchant). I managed to find ONE supplier on the Amazon marketplace that I trust (and only one). So these days... I either buy it from that specific seller (because they've never sent me a bad battery yet) -or- I make a 30 minute one-way drive to a "Batteries Plus" retail store (across town from me) anytime I need to buy a battery that I cant easily get locally.
Anyway a new/fresh CR2032 will probably read 3.4 volts on a multi-meter but it will definitely read a MINIMUM of 3.3 volts. If you get anything less than that... you've been sold bad batteries.
If you own a multi-meter, test any new battery to make sure you are getting the correct voltage. The way I knew the batteries I was getting from Amazon were fakes was because they were all testing as dead or severely below the capacity that a fresh battery should have. I'm told Amazon is constantly trying to shut these sellers down... but as soon as the close them, they just pop up as a new seller with a new name. Amazon is basically playing the game of "whack a mole" and never really seems to get ahead of the problem with fraudulent marketplace sellers.
Amazon's reviews made it tough to figure out who I could trust (which is why I ultimately gave up trying). Basically if two different sellers (call them "seller a" and "seller b") are both selling the same product (or at least they claim to be selling the same product ... will call it "Popular Brandname CR2032", then any review from a customer who purchased "Popular Brandname 2032" from "seller a" will have their reviews showing up on the "seller b" product listing. They do this because Amazon thinks the review is for the same product... and since both products are supposed to be the same, then why not tell any perspective buyer what the other buyers thought of that product. But this assumes they really ARE the same product that one isn't a fake. So you'd see ... in the very same set of reviews, some buyers claiming the batteries were great... while others claimed they received dead batteries. And there's no way for you to know which seller sent out the dead batteries because they combine the reviews as long as the product name matches.
Just because the battery is in what appears to be new retail packaging doesn't mean it isn't a fake or dead. You've got to test them.
Tim Campbell
5D III, 5D IV, 60Da
