***All issues resolved the following day Oct 3rd after a single in camera USB-C charge***
My new NH only registers at 95% after fully charging overnight and if I just try to top it off after it drops below 95%. Charger light goes from flashing orange to green.
My BM clone reads at 100% but limits MS FPS to the White Icon.
Does everyone else get 100% reading with their new NH batteries from the R5 and R6? Is this something that will condition in and eventually read 100% after a few discharge cycles?
I don't have my spare battery yet (no stock) so can't compare with another one.
stanj wrote:
Mine reads 100 when full. My backup will be here Tuesday. Not sure yours will "calibrate", then again not sure the 5% matter one way or another...
Thanks for the data point. I just plugged my camera into USB charging to see if that makes it rise to 100. Otherwise I'll see how it goes after the next three days of shooting and recharging.
I have two LP-E6 NH batteries. One that came with camera and 1 I got Wednesday as spare. In the provided Canon LC-E6, both charge to 100% as reported when installing in my R5.
I did get a bad charger with a 90D about a year ago, only charged up to 75-85%. New battery would charge in my old chargers to 100%. Canon sent new charger and told me to throw away old one.
I am still using my 5D3 (or 5DSR?) charger, because I was too lazy to swap it out for the supplied one. Maybe that's why it charges to 100%, to prove a point
A few of the very old chargers were kind of stupid and did not charge fully. Only seen that in a 2011 mfg model, which I have since tossed.
If a Lithium battery sits at full charge or very low charge for a long time it can degrade. Sometimes cycling them a few times will fix it, but depends on battery age. I have an LP-E6 mfg in 2012 that still sorta works, though it shows only 40% charging efficiency.
Thanks for the info guys.
I will try charging my LP-E6NH in my BigMike's charger and see if it is the Canon charger that is the issue.
I guess I will contact Canon or my dealer regardless and get either the battery or charger replaced.
garydavidjones wrote:
Using Canon charger (included with R5) maximum was
95%. Using Canon PD-E1 power adapter both
NH batteries are charged to 100% in BG-R10 grip.
Thanks for the info. I wonder why just you and I had 95% with the included charger?? Seems everyone else is getting 100%. I guess in your case it must be the charger that is the issue.
I will also try some USB charging to see if that gets it up to 100%.
My R5 battery charges to 100% with the new charger but when I first got the R5 I used the charger that came with the 5D lV and it (the R5 battery) charged to 95%. I haven't used it since for the R5 LP-E6NH battery. I may try it again just to check if it repeats those percentages.
My BigMike's (BM) charger was able to charge the Canon LP-E6NH to 100%.
Oddly the Canon charger was able to charge the BM battery to 100% but it never gave the indication that it was finished charging. But back in the camera it said 100%. Of course then it seemed to drop charge very quickly with just a minute fiddling in the menus. The BM battery is probably on the way out anyways. Got a couple RAV LP-E6N's coming next week to bide me over till some more OEMs are in Stock at my dealer.
This camera burns batteries so I think I better add another to my outstanding order for just a single spare.
After shooting tomorrow I will try the Canon charger on the Canon battery again and see if it will get to 100 now....
USB-C MacBook Air charger can charge the Canon LP-E6NH to 100%. Will re-test the wall charger this afternoon once I deplete the battery with shooting today.
I'm up to 7 LP-E6NH batteries with my backordered batteries having arrived this week. Going to pick up 1 more. All 7 charge to 100%, no issues there. I'm also satisfied with the number of shots I'm getting with the 2 battery gripped R5. Reason numero uno for spares was the FPS drop mentioned on another thread earlier this week. Camera went from ripping off shots to clunking down to what felt like 2 FPS almost instantly. Batteries were at 40 and 42%.
To conclude this thread, the supplied Canon charger now charges my Canon battery to 100%. Was this just a calibration issue? No idea. I did note in the manual that if your charge level is above 94% when you initially place the battery on the charger then the charger won’t charge it any further. But I know for certain that the two times I tried to charge yesterday it had started charging from a very low %.
