Dr.Rock
Established Member
Can someone please confirm this test for me?
Insert a fully charged standard VW-VBG130 battery into the Panasonic HDC-SD700 camcorder. That's the standard battery that comes with the camcorder.
Select the 1080/50p mode and start recording and leave it until the battery runs out and the camera shuts down. I had it lasting about 1 hour 45 mins recording time (recording drains more juice than when the camera is just turned on and doing nothing).
Now, I've been buying the third-party manaufactured VW-VBG260 batteries which are a lot cheaper, fully decoded so they give the remaining time on the camcorder, can be charged on camcorder's original Panasonic charger, and are bulkier than the standard battery so you can expect it to carry more charge. However, when I do the same recording time test on these replacement "high capacity" batteries, though the initial remaining time shows on the camcorder as around three hours, the battery lasts about the same time as the standard lower capacity VW-VBG130 battery? I've tried and sent back three of these batteries now, one of them even being from a different supplier and manaufacturer, and still they don't last longer than the standard capacity.
Do I keep being sold faulty high-capacity batteries, or is it a faulty standard-capacity battery that came with my camcoder that just happens to run longer than it's supposed to?
Thanks.
Insert a fully charged standard VW-VBG130 battery into the Panasonic HDC-SD700 camcorder. That's the standard battery that comes with the camcorder.
Select the 1080/50p mode and start recording and leave it until the battery runs out and the camera shuts down. I had it lasting about 1 hour 45 mins recording time (recording drains more juice than when the camera is just turned on and doing nothing).
Now, I've been buying the third-party manaufactured VW-VBG260 batteries which are a lot cheaper, fully decoded so they give the remaining time on the camcorder, can be charged on camcorder's original Panasonic charger, and are bulkier than the standard battery so you can expect it to carry more charge. However, when I do the same recording time test on these replacement "high capacity" batteries, though the initial remaining time shows on the camcorder as around three hours, the battery lasts about the same time as the standard lower capacity VW-VBG130 battery? I've tried and sent back three of these batteries now, one of them even being from a different supplier and manaufacturer, and still they don't last longer than the standard capacity.
Do I keep being sold faulty high-capacity batteries, or is it a faulty standard-capacity battery that came with my camcoder that just happens to run longer than it's supposed to?
Thanks.
