Category Archives: Li-ion camera battery

Saga of cheap, low capacity knock off Li-ion batteries for my Canon SD600.

AC supply for time lapse with Canon SD600

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Jim

Since it seems likely I’ll end up doing more time lapse photography with CHDK and my little Canon SD600 it seemed appropriate to make a dedicated supply for it rather than hauling the unholy hack of a battery directly in … Continue reading →

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Time-lapse of driveway repair

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Jim

I’ve been tempted to do a little time-lapse photography for years.  My office window looked out over a view that I think would have made a great quick video covering maybe a whole year.  With a pic at a given … Continue reading →

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Current sense amp for camera battery charger

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Jim

I had another board I needed to make, so I laid out a quickie for an LM358 based amp to let me measure current while charging Canon camera batteries with the connections I’d hacked into the charger a while ago.  … Continue reading →

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Hacking into the charger

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Jim

The fact that my attempts to fool the charger into pushing more energy into the battery resulted in no significant gain in capacity is a fair indication that the charger isn’t at fault, but I wanted to make sure. After … Continue reading →

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Camera battery/charger? problems

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Jim

I bought an extra battery for my good old Canon SD600 camera when I went to MakerFaire a couple of years ago.  The real ones were expensive, so I found a knock-off on Ebay.  Seemed to work, and I used … Continue reading →

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