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Very strange Digital camera problem

I have a Fuji Finepix that has a strange attachment to a set of batteries.As so much so that it will not work with any other batteries and wondered if anyone has a guess why this might be This is a finepix A345 that uses two AA cells. Ran fine for years then I decided to save some money with rechargables so I got an energizer charger and some 2500 mah NIMH batteries and all was fine. Somewhere along the way I bought some Empire Scientific Batteries and thats when the love affair began. The Camera will only power on with two of the Empire batteries and no others. I have tried rechargable and even went through several new packages of alkalyne batteries before I convinced myself that there were only two battries that would turn this camera on. I pull them out and they read 1.28 and 1.3 volts which is similar to other rechargables so I'm totally baffled and open to any theories. The only other thing I did notice was with a set of new alkaline batteries that read 1.5&1.52 V the camera would occasionally come on but power off as soon as I released the power button Thanks in Advancve

BOb

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bob
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Many of my older NiMH batteries started to fail. My camera sucks a lot of power Minolta F300, and on vacation my newest batteries were terrible. An older set worked much better. I have yet to buy more batteries, but I bought a good 8 cell individually controlled charger for about $50. In using this charger I was able to find the best ones, that had reasonably low impedance, and I threw out at least 2 dozen of my mostly older cells. Make sure the contacts are clean. I usually try to put something like Deoxit on the batteries.

greg

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GregS

Sorry for the multiple post hit the send button twice The strange thing is its not just rechargeable that don't work but any AA's I buy a new pack of alkaline and they don't work either BOB

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bob

Have you tried using an external adapter? Is there any damage inside the battery compartment?

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Anonymous

I got tired of replacing batteries - Alkaline OR NiMH, so I rigged up a battery pack which consists of (2) RC (6v 2100 or so Mah) packs in parallel. I have them wired to a "T" connector so I can use one or both packs and charge the packs as needed. I find the flash kills any sort of cells quick. But my camera works pretty damned good without the flash, so I barely use it. With no flash - those packs last a good while - enough for a day or so of pictures. My memory card holds about 800 pics the way the camera is set up and I can take that many on a charge. That is a lot of pics - many more than most take in a day or so.

Just my 2 cents

L.

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Radiosrfun

maybe those cells are larger in length and you stretched to spring inside so that other cells can not make connection any more? just a thought.

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Jamie

Beat me to it. I was going to suggest the same thing. Is it possible that Empire batteries are trifle longer and they deformed the camera battery contacts/

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Boris Mohar

ha, that's garantied sales of Empire Cells! :) It's like being hooked on drugs!

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Jamie

My guess is that the batteries that work are a hair longer or have a slightly different shaped end than most batteries and they've bent the contacts so they no longer mate correctly with most of the ones you try.

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James Sweet

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