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[Johnb]

Just a quicky guys, confussed by battery numbers.

 

My D7500 and D850 specify EN-EL15a Batteries.

 

MY Z7  specifies a EN-EL15b Battery

 

There are companies on Amazon supplying EN-EL15 batteries and chargers that according to them, fit all my cameras.

 

I am a bit confused. I dont want to ruin several grands worth of cameras for the sake of a few quid for a Nikon battery.

 

Can anyone clarify.

[Merco_61]

Any charged EN-EL15 battery can be used in any EN-EL15 camera. The difference between the versions is the battery monitoring chip that controls the charging cycle. The charger works best and safest if it matches the battery to be charged, which is why you need an EN-EL15b battery in the Z7 if you use the USB charging option.

 

I, personally, have used Nikon original batteries only ever since I got my D300 in 2007.

[Johnb]

OK so you would advise me not to put an Amazon supplied EN.EL15 battery into my Z7 Charger, or into my D850 / D7500 Chargers, and too be safe, that I should only use Nikon batteries anyway. 

[Merco_61]

If you have the MH-25a charger, it will handle both the -a and the -b versions of the original batteries. If you charge in the camera, you need the -b battery.

As I haven’t tried any current third-party batteries, I can’t recommend or discourage the use of them.

[nikonbarmy]

I have a spare battery (Duracell that came with the camera from previous owner)) so that I am not always having to plug in the camera and that has been fine in my D5000.

[Johnb]

Thank you for that. I think I am clearer now.

 

Watching a vid today on the Z6 and Z7, there is now a 15c battery for charging in the camera.  

[Nikon Shooter]

Except for the D3S and the D3X (that came with their specific great packs), all
my D8xx are on Envelop pro batteries (thanks to Nikon for offering the option!) 

since the time I was using a D800E that came with mickey mouse packs.

[Crotlaus]

When I bought my D5600 three years ago I wanted a extra battery, EN-EL14a. The cost was one factor about checking about a non NIKON battery. The salesman at the camera shop that I bought the camera said that a non Nikon battery would not work. He pulled a replacement battery for the EN-EL14a. It looked identical except for the name and the specs were identical. Putting the battery in the camera created an error indicating that it was a non usable battery. I can't remember the actual error message. I suspect that NIKON has done what HP did with their ink cartridges and that is they have chip that is read to determine if it is a genuine product.

 

Has anybody seen that before?