One of my really big pet peeves is when AA battery cells
leak through your equipment. Earlier
this week I found one had leaked through my Nikon SB-800 flash, which I was
very displeased about. The acidic goop
had sealed the battery compartment door shut, and it took quite a bit of
cleaning and pushing to get it open.
After ditching the batteries it was quite a tedious cleanup
process, and I had to sand paper the contacts down a couple times before it
would work again.
Despite generally having a habit of keeping batteries out of
equipment, this is probably the third or fourth time this has happened. It also happened with my SB-28 flash and my
Nikon F90X that I had a while back.
It's one good thing about the manufacturer supplied lithium
ion batteries, it makes these leakages a thing of the past for cameras.
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This has happened to me many times as well. Generally, it is the cheap batteries that leak easily. Duracell and the Bunny brand don't usually leak.
ReplyDeleteThe weird thing was it was with what I thought were better quality Panasonic batteries
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