Is it batteries dead or charger malfunction?

joemardo1

Hi there,

I have an 8mm sony camcorder bought around 1993 model handycam TR60 and nothing wrong with it. Takes perfectly good video and on seeing my sisters sony digital 8 camera working I can't really see any difference in picture quality. So I' d like to keep it for now.

Problem is this. Like most camcorders it hasn't been out often and the 3 batteries I have (2 of sony brand) have gone flat I have tried charging them up with sony charger connected to mains but no good. If I connect the camcorder to the charger and push the selection switch on charger to power then camcorder works fine, but obviously that way I have only limitied recording abilty in house.

To charge the batteries on charge you slide the selecter switch to charge and charge the battery that way, but as stated no luck.

What do you think, surely its not possible that the 3 batteries have given up the ghost or do you think its charger.

Thanks
Joe

Gadge_2

It could be the batteries.

However, I would check that you were getting power from them with a multimeter, but take care not to short circuit them!

That would check the batteries

I would also check the charger with the multimeter, that you were getting voltage from the battery charger's terminals where they would connect to the battery when charging it.

That would confirm the charger is actually trying to charge the batteries

Do you know anyone with the same type of camcorder, so you could test their batteries on your camcorder and your batteries on their camera, thus proving your batteries/camcorder,

it could be the battery connections on your camcorder, that are not taking the power from the batteries to the camera

Best of luck

kat21

sounds like a ni cad memorie issue to me, do a search on ni cads and memory
kat21