WayneL Loc: Baltimore Md

My 3rd party battery is still good, same age

W3HII Loc: Weirsdale, Florida

Looks like it's just the case that cracked. Battery cells inside should still be OK.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

IF you read my reply I started out by saying S--t happens, get over it. S--t can happen to any camera, at any time, in any circumstance. My point was, get over it and move on. BUT, continue to stay away from 3rd party anything and RIDE WITH THE BRAND.

WayneL Loc: Baltimore Md

Some people are more happy when stirring the pot. You are right about the intention of my post.

pv3977 Loc: San Diego

Lithium battery is swelling as much as 8-10% in size when fully charge. Cheap batteries use Lithium Cobalt Oxide (LiCoO2)which offer higher power density but generate higher temperature when discharge. High quality Lithium battery such as LMO and NMC incorporate absorption buffer material to prevent crack and dissipates heat during charge/discharge cycle. When you compare OEM vs knockoff batteries you see the knockoff has higher power density. For example Nikon EN-EL15 has only 1900mAh while knockoff has up to 2600 mAh because they use cheap Lithium cells. Higher power density is an indication of cheap battery.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Interesting - didn’t know that...

Fotoserj Loc: St calixte Qc Ca

China simply skip development, they steal technology or simply copy product with cheap components and underpriced the original product by flooding the market wich Amazon is very happy to resale along the original

insman1132 Loc: Southwest Florida

Hey, Wayne, anything different just recently about your camera? Were you in extreme Heat or Cold? etc.

11bravo

I don't know, where were the Japanese Takata air bags made that killed people? Or Japanese Kobe steel company that didn't bother with quality testing, just stamped the paperwork, or all Nissan cars sold in Japan over last 3 years due to final vehicle inspections not conducted by authorized techs, or Mitsubishi recalling cars due to falsified milage data... Japanese quality good, but not manager proof.

jcboy3

I don't see how any battery can get crushed and crack like that while installed in a camera.

Unless you have a severe case of shutter shock.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Yep, no denying that, but no less than Road and Track said some years ago that: “Toyota/Lexus is now producing the highest quality automobiles in the world” (displacing classic German technology/quality like Mercedes Benz). Mitsubishi? Not so much...

pv3977 Loc: San Diego

The Nissan skip inspection, Kobei Steel and such are isolate incidents caused by poor upper management decisions; not because of their quality problem. It hurts Japanese reputations worldwide. If you look at the quality assurance methodology ingrained to the Japanese industry by Joseph Duran and Edward Deming in the fifties, you realize that they surpass every countries in quality. Their additional development of quality methodologies such as Quality circle, Kaizen, 5s, Just In Time Production ... insured their continual success into the 21st century.
China factory performs well only if that factory is under JV with a foreign company and it is under tight quality control of foreign company. Other than that their quality is mediocre at best.

Bipod

Every country is different. Deming was able to make a huge difference in Japan because Japan
wanted to improve the quality of its exports. Japan craftsmanship had an unbroken tradition
of quality going back hundreds of years (e.g.. ceramics, samarai swords). They just didn't know
how to do statistical process control.

China's story is completely different. It had the Chinese Communist Revoltuion, followed by the
Cultural Revolution. Now it has "Marxism with Chinese characteristics". Corruption and nepotism
are rampant (and only enemies of the Leader, Xi Jinping, get prosecuted). . If W. Edwards Deming
were alive today and attempted to do in China what he did in Japan, he would be forced to take
orders from the local Commissar's idiot nephew.

Good quality manufacturing in China is the exception, not the rule, and it only exists when a foriegn
company is permitted to control every aspect of manufacturing.

But most important of all, Japan is an ally of the USA, and China is an adversary
of the USA. The evidence suggests that China does not care about product defects (or melamine
in dog food) unless it becomes public and causes a scandal. As long as the junk keeps selling,
China will make junk.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

👍👍 Not sure of the present status, but when I was serious about sailing, the conventional wisdom was that if you wanted a Choy Lee fine yacht (made in China), you purchased it unrigged and bought all the standing rigging in the US after delivery, because quality control on Chinese metallurgy was so poor (unpleasant thing to find out in a storm when the rigging was stressed to the max).

Bipod

I dropped a submersible pump 200 ft down a well because a Chinese cable clamp gave way.
Took a month to fish it.

Now I use only US-made Crosby rigging for hoisting.