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Hiya, Well the bat calibration light came on for the first time when i went to charge my battery up for the D2X and well i am not sure what to do.
It charged up as normal after i turned it off and when done i put back in camera and went to bat info and it said Calibration needed, so what do i do plug back in and push the cal buttong on charger????
Thanks
John

Yes

hi john

simply yes
everytime i charge my d2x battery i hti the calibrate button

Thanks Chris and Wendel, well i did that now a yellow light and all 3 green ligghts are on so is this ok as they are staying on, am i too look for something or will the yellow light go off or what goes??

BBJ,
hahaha!
Relax! take the battery out! put it on the cleaned table! leave it there and go get a cold beer or a nice botlle of red, pull out the chair, sit down comfy.

Take out the charger, use your breath to blow the dust off after first sip of red wine, plug the battery onto the charger and hit the calibration button, it will run for few hours, continuing to finish the first red bottle, get the second out and keep pouring into the glass untill the battery fully charged after calibrated

wendellt wrote:hi john

simply yes
everytime i charge my d2x battery i hti the calibrate button

Wrong! this will degrade the life of the battery.
You only calibrate the battery once you've seen the warning.
For the last 12 months, I only need to calibrate it once.

BBJ wrote:Thanks Chris and Wendel, well i did that now a yellow light and all 3 green ligghts are on so is this ok as they are staying on, am i too look for something or will the yellow light go off or what goes??

Don't worry about the LED, just do as I said and it'll automatically calibrated and charged it up for you.
Relax.......

Thanks Birdy, but how do i know when it is done?

Crikey Birddog if you can have that much fun charging your battery I am off to do mine

well bugger

i think i have kicked my own ass again

How much for 2 new D2X batteries?

BBJ wrote:Thanks Birdy, but how do i know when it is done?

The three green lights under the "charge" will stop blinking and stay steady.

wendellt wrote:well bugger

i think i have kicked my own ass again

How much for 2 new D2X batteries?

One for 190 buck.
Your stressed-test once again!!!!!!

Ok birdy, when i disconected it and plugged back in it charged the way it normally does, so now all the lights are on , not blinking

BBJ wrote:Ok birdy, when i disconected it and plugged back in it charged the way it normally does, so now all the lights are on , not blinking

Have you finished the calibration as yet?
One the calibration done, the charger will automatically charge the battery until it's full.
If not! plug the battery back and rehit the calibration button, it will take few hours. Don't worry about it, check back next morning.

Ok i plugged back in and the light did flash on and well hit cal button and yeh all the lights are lit up so i will just leave it on there till morning.

BBJ wrote:Ok i plugged back in and the light did flash on and well hit cal button and yeh all the lights are lit up so i will just leave it on there till morning.

OK, leave it like that, go get yourself a drink and relax

Thanks Birdy, i will sit back here and leave til morning, i wont stress about it but yeh first time so least i know now.
Thanks

Never had to calibrate my battery yet. The manual does say only calibrate the battery when the calibration light comes on.

Wendell, lol!

Basically all that the recalibrate is doing is totally disharging the battery to freshen it. That is why it takes some time as it has to go through two cycles - discharge then recharge.

Ok Chris, well i will leave mine on all nite as it has all the lights on so no flashing but yellow cal light is on so yeh should be right by the morning.

I will get a spare battery for it thought soon as where i got my other battery for D70 has them for$55.60 so will have to put that on my list.