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  • Canon NB-5L Battery Status

    One of the junker NB-5L eBay batteries for my Canon SX-230HS pocket camera gave up, but the other two have some usable capacity left. The OEM Canon battery seems to be doing fine, perhaps because it sees a relatively low duty cycle:

    Canon NB-5L - 2013-11
    Canon NB-5L – 2013-11

    Compare those curves with the previous tests:

    Canon NB-5L - 2011-08-26
    Canon NB-5L – 2011-08-26

    I harvested the weakest of the four junkers to make that dummy battery.

    It’s about time to pick up a few more junkers: alas, I can find no bare cells in a size to fit that case.