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Charging generic NIMh batteries in easyshare docks

Kodak easyshare docks will recharge only kodak NIMh battery packs, however you can trick the camera into charging generic NIMh batteries because the camera has a small button in the battery compartment that the battery pack presses - indicated a kodak battery pack has been inserted. Simply stick a piece of plastic between the generic NIMh batteries such that it presses the button and the camera will recharge them as if they were the kodak branded batteries that cost twice as much.

Doing this with alkaline or batteries other than NIMh may cause them to leak or explode, harming the camera. The switches other function than generating battery revenue is to prevent charging incompatable batteries. Be careful.

promethean_spark
Sun Jan 9 19:15:55 PST 2005

That's a cool hack. Got any picts of the small button in the battery compartment?

Chieh Cheng
Fri Jan 14 11:58:13 PST 2005

THANK YOU! This was just the trick I needed. I was racking my brain on this. I purched 2500 ahr batteries so we could get a little longer use while traveling, but I could not get the base to charge them.

The charge took just great!

Thanks for the posting.
Bob K

Bob Kearney
Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:02:00 -0800

THANKS Promethean. That switch is so small, it didn't look like a switch.
Here's a trick. If you still have the original Kodak battery pack, remove the batteries from the plastic centerpiece, then insert the centerpiece, along with the two new NiMh batteries into the camera. Keep the centerpiece for future battery swaps.
That plastic part is held in place with tape around the batteries and hot melt glue. It's not that difficult to seperate the assembly.

Pete Capitain
Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:16:13 -0800

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