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Don't leave Lithium Ion batteries charging overnight...

shabaz

This was a surprise!

Going away for a bit, and charged up my camera batteries, only to see this; you can see the left battery has a curved surface, it's not flat like the one on the right.

I measured the thickness at 20.4 mm, compared to 18.5 mm for the one on the right.

The one on the left was purchased in July of this year, but never used until today. Today was the first time I charged it, in a genuine Sony charger.

The one on the left is by Ansmann, and was a lot cheaper than the one on the right (Sony). 

Ansmann is usually a decent brand, so I was very surprised this occurred. I'm glad I noticed this now and didn't forget to leave it in the charger overnight or longer!

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Definitely purchased from Amazon as the seller, from the Ansmann Store there; with supposedly a 5-year warranty, but it didn't last a day:

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The other side is flat:

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Anyway, it's a reminder, don't forget to remove batteries from chargers overnight and if possible always be around to check on them just in case.

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  • Something that didn’t last a day strikes me as faulty or fraudulent - the latter distinctly possible from Amazon.  My understanding is they don’t physically separate stock by seller so if someone else is selling an Ansmann battery it gets lumped into the same storage location -True? Don’t know really.  You do need to keep an eye on these batteries though as even genuine quality ones will go after a (long) while.  I only buy original brand batteries from the official store or official stockists and never from Amazon or eBay etc…

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  • Something that didn’t last a day strikes me as faulty or fraudulent - the latter distinctly possible from Amazon.  My understanding is they don’t physically separate stock by seller so if someone else is selling an Ansmann battery it gets lumped into the same storage location -True? Don’t know really.  You do need to keep an eye on these batteries though as even genuine quality ones will go after a (long) while.  I only buy original brand batteries from the official store or official stockists and never from Amazon or eBay etc…

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  • in reply to Andrew J

    Most of the stuff I've seen from the marketplace has been pre-packaged with some sort of basic branding attached, usually bubblewrap with a sticky label with the storefront name, so not sure how that would work with your understanding.

    Potentially though, you could have a single seller with multiple storefronts type situation, in which case it may be supplied from the same stockpile with just the barcode to identify it for picking.