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saturnin
24th of April 2008 (Thu), 14:57
My batteries finally died so i need to charge em up, i hooked up both batteries to my charger and one of the sides i get a constant charging light, the other sidei get a flash and nothing.
Now, i switched the batteries to see if maybe a battery was toast but it was doing the same thing. I just bought new batteries and hooked up two new uncharged batteries to it and still same thing.
I read the manual but it does not say anything about trickle charging one battery @ a time, etc. Is there an issue with the charger or is this normal even tho it doesnt sound right??(the 2nd battery will charge when the first one is done type of thing)

thanks
Sat
saturnin
24th of April 2008 (Thu), 16:12
one more thing i pluged in a new battery and both lights are blinking crazy the red and the yellow...any ideas?
thanks
René Damkot
24th of April 2008 (Thu), 16:42
The manual (http://www.moonglade.net/~rene/manualNCE2.jpg) as a jpg ;)

Batteries load one at a time.
Woolburr
24th of April 2008 (Thu), 23:15
Like René said...only one battery at a time will charge. You can condition both at once though.
saturnin
24th of April 2008 (Thu), 23:49
ok great.. i dont have that manual..al li have is the 1ds manual...and it didnt say anything about it..thank you for the jpg post....

now..my other issue is that one battery when pluged in goes crazy... coudl it be a faulty battery? thanks
Woolburr
25th of April 2008 (Fri), 03:18
Is it a Canon battery or an after-market model? The connections to the non-Canon batteries don't seem to be real good...I have one that I have to play with all the time to get it connected right. Frequently it will get bumped or something and you find both the charge and the refresh lights blinking. That can also occur if the battery tries to charge too fast and gets overly hot. Unplug the charger from the battery and then plug it back in. It should begin charging normally again. If it continues to get errors...do a complete discharge cycle on it...that seems to help.
saturnin
25th of April 2008 (Fri), 15:35
yah it is an aftermarket battery.... i'll see what can be done
Woolburr
25th of April 2008 (Fri), 20:27
That is the one big downside of the aftermarket batteries. None of them have a real good fit.